Toll Brothers News

Over the past 18 months, housing prices have retreated sharply from the highs reached at the end of the housing boom.

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The S&P 500 logged another 14-month high on Tuesday as stocks rallied on a surge in existing home sales, which indicated more stabilization in housing and boosted optimism about the economic recovery.

During morning trading, an investor rolled a short put position on homebuilding name Toll Brothers out to the June expiration month on a potential bet that the stock could hit a floor during the next half-year. Toll, whose shares are currently down eight cents to $17.95, did not announce any news today.

Builders in November probably broke ground on more U.S. homes, and gains in consumer prices were within the Federal Reservea s long-term forecasts, economists said reports today may show.

His doors and windows looked like oversized Ziploc bags. They opened and closed with a zipper taped down the middle of the plastic.

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders unexpectedly fell in December on concern the lack of jobs and tight credit will limit a recovery.

Earnings released during business-cycle transition periods often offer investors visibility on the pace of recovery in specific sectors, but that's probably not the case with the homebuilders, especially Hovnanian Enterprises , reporting tomorrow, and arguably the worst positioned of any homebuilder heading into 2010.

Homebuilders are feeling worse about their sector, an index out Tuesday afternoon showed.

The US economy will reward nerdiness more than muscle over the next 10 years, stressing education and training more than manual skills.

"Over the years, small-cap stocks crush their large- and mid-cap peers." That's how I planned to start this column today.

The S&P 500 saw its winning streak snapped at three as it and other indices were hit with a late-day swoon.

Homebuilder Toll Brothers' fiscal fourth quarter was more or less of the same issues that continue to plague the homebuilding industry.

Total sales were $327 million, compared to $301 million in the third quarter last year.

After a surprisingly weak earnings report from luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers on Thursday, the entire homebuilding sector suffered through a woeful day.

It should be difficult to disappoint The Street by a wide margin when you pre-announce earnings, but Toll Brothers accomplished that feat on Thursday morning, missing the Street estimate by 22 cents, a shock that took a wrecking ball to Toll shares, which were down more than 6.5% in the early afternoon on slightly higher than average trading ...

Homebuilder Toll Brothers said today its fiscal fourth quarter loss grew 30 percent, as revenue declined.

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Toll Brothers Inc. lost $111.4 million in the fiscal fourth quarter, but the luxury homebuilder is seeing signs of a turnaround in the housing market.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are those of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Toll Brothers Inc., Del Monte Foods Co.