Articles About NYSE:XHB
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March 26, 2013Rising Home Prices Suggest Broad Housing Market Recovery
Home prices posted their highest year-over-year increases in seven years, suggesting that a housing recovery is well underway...
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March 20, 2012Housing Market Shows Signs of Recovery
Housing starts slipped in February, but according to the Commerce Department, permits for future construction rose to their highest level since October 2008...
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March 19, 2012Treasury Profits From Own Efforts to Stem Financial Crisis
The U.S. Treasury Department made a profit of $25 billion on sales of mortgage bonds purchased during 2008 and 2009 in its efforts to stem the financial crisis...
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March 15, 2012Here’s How Mortgage Rates are Reacting to the Jobs Report
According to Freddie Mac's weekly mortgage survey, mortgage rates in the U.S. climbed higher over the last week after a positive employment report...
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March 06, 2012U.S. Lenders Are Ramping Up Home Foreclosures
Foreclosure starts shot up 28 percent in January, suggesting that backlogs that had lenders cutting back over the past several months were rapidly clearing...
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February 27, 2012Lead Housing Indicator Improves as Jobs Recovery Quickens
More Americans signed contracts to buy homes last month as the economy added jobs at a quicker pace, home prices continued to fall, and borrowing costs remained near record lows...
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February 24, 2012
New Home Sales Slip as Supply Shrinks to Record Low
New home sales fell in January but an upward revision to December's data and a reported drop in the supply of properties on the market are signaling a recovery in the housing sector...
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February 22, 2012
Existing Home Sales Jumped 4.3% in January
Sales of previously owned homes rose in January to the highest level since May 2010, but prices continued their decline as the give-and-take housing recovery continued...
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February 16, 2012January Housing Starts Beat Forecasts
An unusually mild January helped builders beat forecasts for housing starts, which were up 1.5 percent from December...
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February 15, 2012
Home Builder Confidence Index Rises In February
However, low appraisals will continue to follow proposals, and buyers will still hesitate to sign on the dotted lines ...
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February 07, 2012Do We Know If the Housing Market Has Hit Bottom?
People who are seriously considering buying a house need to know if this is true, or just more speculation...
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February 03, 2012Obama Administration to Shut Down Fannie and Freddie
The Obama administration is working to attract more private funding for mortgage markets while winding down government-backed housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
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February 01, 2012
Construction Spending in U.S. Rose in December
Separate reports are estimating that this trend picked up significantly in January, as well...
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January 31, 2012Home Prices Fell 1.3% in November
Home prices declined 1.3 percent in November from the previous month, according to an index of property values, while home prices adjusted for seasonal variations fell 0.7 percent, matching the drop in October...
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January 30, 2012
Is Freddie Betting Against Homeowners?
A probe of Freddie Mac revealed that the mortgage insurance giant has situated itself to benefit from banks stonewalling their customers, and has taken steps to make it more difficult for those locked in high-interest mortgages to refinance to lower rates...
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