| 05.09.08 BEACON ROOFING REPORTS NEGATIVE 2.3% EBIT/SALES IN Q1 Mission Viejo, CA - Beacon Roofing Supply (NYSE: BECN) reported an operating loss of $6.94 million on sales of $304.251 [more] |
| 05.09.08 LAFARGE GYPSUM REPORTS NEGATIVE 31% EBIT/SALES Q1 '08 Lafarge Repots Negative 31% EBIT/Sales for North American Gypsum During Jan-March '08 Quarter Mission Viejo, CA - [more] |
| 05.08.08 ANOTHER HOMEBUILDER FACING MAJOR LIQUIDITY ISSUES Bonita Springs, FL - Home builder WCI Communities Inc (NYSE: WCI) faces the risk of bankruptcy due to its deteriorating [more] |
| 05.08.08 BLUELINX REPORTS NEGATIVE 1% EBIT/SALES FOR 1ST QTR '08 Mission Viejo, CA - Earlier this month Distributor BlueLinx Holdings (MYSE: BXC)reported $7.8 million operating loss on [more] |
| 05.08.08 BUILDER HOVANIAN SEEKING EQUITY INFUSION Hovnanian Enterprises prices follow-on stock offering Hovnanian Enterprises prices 14 million follow-on stock offering [more] |
| 05.08.08 OWENS CORNING EBIT/SALES DROPS TO 4.3% IN FIRST QTR '08 Owens Corning's Insulating Systems EBIT/Sales Drops to 4.3% in Q1 '08 from 12.1% During Q4 '07 Primarily Due to Declinin [more] |
| 05.06.08 D.R. HORTON REPORTS RECORD $1.31 BILLION LOSS D.R. Horton Reports Record $1.31 Billion Loss as Housing Slump Worsens D.R. Horton Inc. reported a record loss as [more] |
| 05.06.08 EAGLE REPORTS 5.2% POSITIVE EBIT/SALES IN BAD MARKET Mission Viejo, CA - Eagle's (American Gypsum wallboard plus paperboard)positive $4.9 million EBIT before extraordinary p [more] |
| 05.05.08 HOVNANIAN REPORTS IMPROVED CASH & LOWER CANCELATIONS Hovnanian Enterprises Reports Preliminary Operating Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2008, Increases 2008 Cash F [more] |
| 05.02.08 ARMSTRONG REPORTS 16.6% EBIT/SALES AND EXPECTED SLOWING Mission Viejo, CA - Withing Armstrong World Industries (NYSE: AWI) latest results announcement they reported 16.6% EBIT/ [more] |
| 05.02.08 CARAUSTAR REPORTS SLIGHT PROFIT - MKT CAP $45M Wallboard Paper Supplier Caraustar Moves to Slight Profit in First Quarter with Total Market Capitalization of Approxima [more] |
| 05.02.08 UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 5% - CONST LOSES ANOTHER 61m JOBS Economy Shed Jobs in April But Pace of Decline Slows Washington DC - U.S. employment fell a fourth straight month [more] |
| 05.01.08 CENTEX LOSS WIDENS TO $908M W/LAND&INVENTORY WRITE DOWN New York, NY - Centex Corp (CTX), the No. 4 U.S. home builder, said on Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened [more] |
| 05.01.08 CONSTRUCTION SPENDING DECLINES 1.1% IN MARCH Washington DC - US construction spending was down again in March, but only after across-the-board revisions by the Comme [more] |
| 05.01.08 HOME DEPOT TO CLOSE 15 UNDERPERFORMING STORES Atlanta, GA - It's been 4 1/2 years since former Home Depot Chief Executive Bob Nardelli's bold prediction that the home [more] |
| 05.01.08 STEEL FRAMING PRICE INCREASES MAY EXTEND INTO 3RD QTR Mission Viejo, CA - While increasing steel framing costs were clearly expected through the first half of 2008 (see Gypsu [more] |
| 05.01.08 TREND TOWARD SMALLER HOMES EXPECTED TO CONTINUE In Addition to Facing the Current Declines in New Housing Starts the Residential Construction Industry Should Anticipate [more] |
| 05.01.08 WALLBOARD DEMAND DOWN 13%-14% IN FIRST QTR 2008 Mission Viejo, CA - Gypsum wallboard demand of 6.785 billion square feet in the United States during the January-March 2 [more] |
| 04.30.08 FED CUTS INTEREST RATE 1/4% - SIGNALS RATE PAUSE AHEAD Washington DC - The Federal Reserve delivered its seventh interest rate cut since the credit crisis began last July but [more] |
| 04.30.08 M I HOMES POST $26M LOSS WITH BUSINESS DOWN ABOUT 1/3 M/I Homes posts loss for 1Q on ailing housing market New York, NY - M/I Homes Inc. (NYSE: MHO)lost money in the fi [more] |
| 04.29.08 CASH GAP PARALYZES IOWA'S REGENCY HOMES Des Moines, IA - Iowa's largest home builder, Regency Cos. of Des Moines, has laid off the entire staff of its home buil [more] |
| 04.29.08 HOME PRICES DECLINE 12.7% IN TOP 20 METRO MARKETS Washington DC - U.S. consumer confidence continued to weaken in April, the fourth straight month of declines, according [more] |
| 04.29.08 MASCO INSTALLATION SERVICES DROPS TO SMALL LOSS IN Q1 Mission Viejo, CA - Within Masco's first quarter 2008 results announcement it was reported that their Installation Servi [more] |
| 04.29.08 NEW RESIDENTIAL RECOVERY POSSIBLE IN SPRING 2010 Excess Supply of Homes to Sell, Increasing Foreclosures, Concern about Jobs and Expectations of Further Declines in Home [more] |
| 04.27.08 CONSUMER CONFIDENCE PLUNGES 9.9% TO 26 YEAR LOW U.S. Consumer Confidence Falls in April to its lowest level since March 1982 Washington DC - The Reuters/Universit [more] |
| 04.26.08 CHGO BUILDER KIMBALL HILL HOMES FILES BANKRUPTCY Chicago, IL - Rolling Meadows-based Kimball Hill Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday but said it will use $60 [more] |
| 04.24.08 MDC LOSS OF $73 MILLION DEEPER THAN EXPECTED MDC Holdings loss deeper than expected Denver, CO - U.S. home builder MDC Holdings Inc (MDC.N: Quote, Profile, Res [more] |
| 04.24.08 NEW HOME SALES FALL 8.5% TO LOWEST LEVEL IN 17 YEARS New-Home Sales Fall to Low Last Seen in Early 1990s The worst days of the housing slump may lie ahead. Buyers van [more] |
| 04.23.08 PULTE HOMES LOSS WIDENS TO $696M WITH WRITE DOWNS Bloomfield Hills, MI - Pulte Homes announced today financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2008. For the [more] |
| 04.23.08 RYLAND HOMES CLOSINGS DOWN 33%, NEW ORDERS DOWN 28% Cash balance of $213.3 million as of March 31, 2008; Net debt-to-total capital ratio was 36.4 percent at March 31, [more] |
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