Housing worries James Hardie Building materials company James Hardie Industries has recorded a $US150.8 million operating profit in its full year results, as the outlook for the US housing market remains uncertain. via
Fannie Shares Fall Most Since 1987 on Dow Report of More Accounting Errors Printer-Friendly Format Fannie Shares Fall the Most Since 1987 on Dow Report Sept.read more...
Off-campus real estate still booming Even as the housing market continues its slide, depleted university budgets and an upward trend in student enrollment have built a profitable little investment pocket in some college towns.Commentread more...
How the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Could Spread (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) Excerpt from fund manager John Hussman's weekly essay on the U.S. market: According to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association survey, the loan delinquency rate increased during the fourth quarter
Govt has gone stale on housing: Rudd "Mr Costello's response today was simply to talk around the edges of this debate" The federal government has gone stale, showing ignorance about Australia's housing affordability crisis, federal Opposition
Lehman profit rises 6 percent Lehman, the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank by market value, said net income rose to $1.15 billion, or $1.96 a share, for the three months ended February 28, from $1.1 billion,
U.S. stocks rallied after a government report suggested the Federal Reserve may stop raising interest rates, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index toward its biggest weekly advance since 2004.
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