Published: March 3, 2025 at 8:15 a.m. ET U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…
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Housing starts fall sharply in January
The numbers: Construction of new U.S. homes fell 14.8% in January, as…
Berkshire Hathaway trims Apple and HP, loads up on Sirius XM and Chevron
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway trimmed its holdings of Apple in the fourth…
This fund manager stopped worrying about economics. He’s outperforming the market.
A change in strategy has helped transform the GoodHaven Fund from a…
U.K. housebuilder Barratt Developments agrees to buy peer Redrow for $3.2 billion.
Barratt Developments BDEV, +1.77% has agreed to buy smaller housebuilder Redrow RDW,…
Shares of China’s Landsea Green rise on plan to buy Texas homebuilder for $185 million
Shares of Chinese developer Landsea Green Management HK:106 rose after the company…
The case for healthcare stocks
So far this year, the healthcare sector of the S&P 500 has…
Humana stock tumbles as Medicare Advantage growth disappoints
Humana Inc. shares HUM, -11.10% dropped 11% Thursday morning after the giant…
Smith Douglas Homes debuts with solid 14% gain in first IPO of 2024
Smith Douglas Homes Corp. rose 14% in its opening day of trading…
KB Home says buyers are ‘responding favorably’ to falling mortgage rates
Homebuilder KB Home on Wednesday said it had seen a “meaningful” increase…
Lennar raises dividend by 33%, ups buyback program by $5 billion
Lennar LEN, -0.77% raised its annual dividend to $2.00 a share, a…
Here are Wall Street’s favorite stocks in the sector expected to grow profits the most in 2024
Each earnings reporting season, you can count on a flurry of articles…
These 20 stocks soared the most in 2023
(Updated with Friday’s closing prices.) The 2023 rally for stocks in the…
Home-builder ETFs surge to all-time highs as Treasury yields fall after Fed meeting
Exchange-traded funds that hold stocks in the home-building industry surged Thursday amid…
The loser of Time’s person of the year nailed the soft landing. What happens now
Is Time magazine already regretting its decision for person of the year?…
Cigna raises buyback to $10 billion, will reportedly drop bid to buy Humana
Managed-care provider Cigna Group on Sunday announced a massive stock buyback, amid…
Opinion: Bulls control the stock market and are targeting the S&P 500’s all-time high
The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, decisively…
Cigna’s and Humana’s stock slides on report of deal talks
Cigna Group shares CI, -7.54% fell more than 7% and Humana Inc.’s…
Opinion: There’s still plenty of time to ride this stock market rally
The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, has…
: What the ‘Amazon effect’ did to home prices in one U.S. city
Amazon’s announcement that it was building HQ2 in Arlington, Va. boosted home…
Stock movers: Tripadvisor, RingCentral, UBS and Sanmina
Here are some of the Tuesday’s bigger, more-active movers: Stock gainers: Uber…