Homebuilding

Pulte Homes and Centex among Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies for 2010

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pulte Homes, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) has been recognized by Fortune magazine as one of the world’s most admired companies in 2010, placing two of its operations, Pulte Homes and Centex, among the Top Five companies in the homebuilder category.

Moody's Raises Pulte Homes Outlook to Positive (PHM)

3/12/2010-Moody's Investors Service raised the outlook on its B1 rating of Pulte Homes (NYSE: PHM) to positive because its liquidity gives it considerable financial flexibility. Moody's said Pulte's liquidity now allows it to comply with financial covenants with relative ease or operate without revolver financing.

Visit KB Home at the Southern California Home Buyer’s Fair

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the nation’s premier homebuilders, is pleased to be participating in the third annual Southern California Home Buyer’s Fair at the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend.

SmarTrend Detects Continued Buying Pressure in Shares of KB Home (KBH)

SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for KB Home (NYSE: KBH) on January 07, 2010 at $15.54. In approximately 2 months, KB Home has returned 13.2% as of today's recent price of $17.59.

Ethoca Introduces Ethoca360 Signals™ Card-Not-Present Fraud Service

Provides Simple, Intuitive Decision Support Analytics for Manual Reviews and Boosts Predictive Accuracy of Primary Fraud Screening Tools

SmarTrend Detects Continued Buying Pressure in Shares of Standard Pacific (SPF)

SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for Standard Pacific (NYSE: SPF) on September 16, 2009 at $4.22. In approximately 6 months, Standard Pacific has returned 18.7% as of today's recent price of $5.01.

Orleans Homebuilders Announces Notice from the NYSE Amex LLC

Orleans Homebuilders Announces Notice from the NYSE Amex LLC PR Newswire BENSALEM, Pa., March 11

Pulte Home Slides on San Antonio Home Repurchase Offer (PHM)

3/11/2010-Shares of Pulte Homes (NYSE: PHM) are trading 1.7% lower to $11.16 Thursday after Dow Jones reported the the homebuilder offered to purchase 27 San Antonio homes damaged by a January retaining-wall collapse.

Bookkeeping: Restarting Braskem (BAK)

We had a short 3 week estrangement with Brazilian chemical maker Braskem (BAK), leaving her Feb 24th, (she only wanted me for my attention, I only wanted her for her industrial exposure) but the stock looks ready to rumble again after doing nothing for a few weeks.   In fact BAK is pullin

Enhancements to Network Video Recorder Platform from Verint Video Intelligence Solutions Support Migration to IP and Reduce Video System Total Cost of Ownership

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Verint® Systems Inc. today announced enhancements to Nextiva® EdgeVR™, the enterprise-class IP-based network video recorder (NVR) series from Verint® Video Intelligence Solutions™