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The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: Housing Stocks Gone Wild? Housing stocks rebound after more horrible news. Has all the bad news already been built into the stock prices of homebuilders? Should investors move in to housing stocks? Those questions are answered in this video.
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The Motley Fool March 2, 2006 Seth Jayson	Another Housing Hoohah Did new home sales really drop last month? Not according to the numbers. Investing in companies that ride macroeconomic trends is never easy, and that's nowhere more evident than in the housing sector.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2005 Seth Jayson	Housing Roars Back? Not So Fast. Make sure you know what the real numbers say before you make that bet on a home or housing stocks.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Seth Jayson	More Housing Bull The NAR praises pending home sales numbers. Big surprise. The moral of the story for investors of all stripes: Beware the cycle of enthusiasm and pain.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2007 Seth Jayson	Home Prices Just Keep Crashing The only thing left to wonder is why the media consistently reports on a return to normalcy in home sales and home pricing as if it's a bad thing. Sure, it hurts. But there's no such thing as free money, at least not forever.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	What Housing Bubble? Lennar debunks the housing bubble pin pushers. Again. Real estate developers are doing just fine. The housing boom may be a bubble, but it's apparently wrapped in a much thicker skin than industry pundits are giving it credit for.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2007 Seth Jayson	No Ambiguity in New Housing Numbers An explanation of the latest housing numbers.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Salim Haji	Housing Boom Drives Homebuilder Stocks As the housing boom continues, housing stocks are reporting record earnings. Neither is sustainable.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Dean Foust	A Scary Stretch Of Vacant Lots If demand for homes slows, builders' recent land grabs could hammer profits.
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Rich Miller	The Bond Market May Lead The Next Rate Rise Expect less focus on the Fed and more on the economy.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Will Soaring Lumber Prices Hurt? That deck you wanted to build has gotten much more expensive.
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The Motley Fool December 22, 2003 Carla Pasternak	Is KB Home Built to Last? KB Home's shares may fall as interest rates rise.
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The Motley Fool January 2, 2008 David Lee Smith	Another Dose of Housing Hogwash Reporters' poor understanding of housing economics may be worsening a bad situation, by passing misinformation along to consumers nationwide.
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The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	Hard Times for Junk Bonds High-yield bonds' time in the sun may be over. Although junk bonds may produce tempting returns, they should only be introduced strategically, and they should almost never account for a large portion of your investment.
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The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 David Lee Smith	More Useful Housing Data, Please! If the Realtors, the Department of Commerce, or the National Association of Home Builders put more effort into the types of numbers they released, investors would be better able to judge how soon the likes of Centex, Pulte, Lennar, Hovnanian, and Toll Brothers might recover from the current crisis.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 David Lee Smith	Homebuilders Up 25% in One Day? Crazy? Absolutely. And housing's flood of bad news since then has already washed away the results. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool November 12, 2004 Lawrence Meyers	Pulte's Prices Plummet A month ago, Pulte Homes cut prices on homes in 18 of its 23 Nevada developments, sparking an investor sell-off that took the company's stock down 23%.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing's Increased Signs of Trouble The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2007 Lawrence Rothman	It's Not Time for Toll Brothers It's an uncertain market, particularly for homebuilders. Just because the downturn may not hurt Toll as much, that doesn't mean you should buy the stock.
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Investment Advisor September 2005 Angelina Dance	S&p Mutual Fund Sector Focus: The Global Itch? With the Federal Reserve continuing to raise short-term interest rates, while longer-term rates inexplicably remain low, some fixed-income investors are seeking alternative vehicles, including global bond funds.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2004 Phil Wohl	Toll Brothers Raises the Roof Can the leading builder of luxury homes continue its record pace despite fluctuating interest rates?
The Motley Fool October 11, 2007 Chuck Saletta	Time to Buy or Time to Run? Value investing is based on a simple concept: Buy shares in undervalued companies, then wait for the shares to reach their fair value. It's the only strategy that has reliably beaten the market for nearly a century. But, choose your stocks with care.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 David Lee Smith	How Now the Homebuilders? Homebuilders' share prices have always correlated inversely to interest rate movements. No one knows when the Fed will reverse its recent string of rate increases. Given these imponderables, investors may want to avoid the group until the picture turns brighter.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Will Rate Cuts Kill the Housing Market? The latest rate cut from the Federal Reserve was again good news for the stock market. Unlike the last several Fed moves, however, this one didn't make mortgage borrowers cheer. Read on to see why.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Toll No Longer on a Roll Toll Brothers released third-quarter earnings today, giving investors its current take on where the homebuilding cycle may be heading. Investors breathed a sigh of relief, bidding the shares up a couple of percentage points.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2006 Tim Hanson	The Worst Stock for 2007: Toll Brothers There are no values if there aren't value traps. Toll Brothers is a stock to avoid.
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The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: Time to Buy Housing Stocks? Have housing stocks hit rock bottom? Is it time to buy them? Will the Fed's interest-rate cut boost housing stocks? What does the housing meltdown mean for other stocks? These questions are discussed in this video.
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