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'A Long Way To Go': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, August 9, 2020 - 4:39pm | 3073The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Stocks closed the week higher after investors regained optimism regarding a sustained recovery. Remember This: “Earnings season has been very impressive so far, now you can couple that with the employment backdrop quickly improving as well. Not a...
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Mortgage Rates Plunge To 3-Year Low Following Brexit Vote
Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 12:42pm | 310While it may take years to determine just how much the U.K.’s Brexit vote will impact global economies around the world, the Brexit has already had a meaningful impact on one major U.S. market: housing. Stock markets have been rattled, and global economic growth is now facing a number of...
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Zillow Just Removed A 'Significant Overhang'; Class A Shares Up +9% In Pre-Market
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 7:18am | 350The $130 million settlement of Zillow Group, Inc.-Class A (NASDAQ: ZG) with News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) and the National Association of Realtors removed a "significant overhang" on the shares of real estate website, according to JMP Securities. "Importantly, the settlement does not alter any of Zillow...
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Pending Home Sales Come In Better Than Expected; How Will S&P/Case-Shiller Index Do Tuesday?
Monday, March 28, 2016 - 12:16pm | 298U.S. pending home sales climbed 3.5 percent to 109.1 in the month of February. The index now sits at its highest level since July of last year. The latest data point was especially important following January's relatively weak number. February marks the 18th consecutive year-over-year (Y/Y)...
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Existing Home Sales Hit 10-Year High For December 2015
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 12:07pm | 239U.S. existing sales rose nearly 15 percent in December, according to information released Friday by the National Association of Realtors. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of home sales for the year rose to 4.56 million, up from a rate of 4.76 million in November. This was the largest monthly...
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Thinking Of Getting A Summer Home In Retirement? Here Are Some Things You Need To Know
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 6:23am | 923What are your retirement goals? Picking up a new hobby? Spending time with grandchildren? Taking the globe by storm and going on extended vacations you never had time for before? Summering in Maine and wintering in Florida? However you plan to reshape your life once you retire, if you plan on...
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Zillow's DotLoop Acquisition Is Direct Competition To Realtors DocuSign
Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 10:12am | 635A heated competition to carve out prime digital real estate and win the hearts and minds of brokers and real estate agents is now being fought on the document battlefield. Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ: Z) on Wednesday announced its first acquisition since its strategic $2.5 billion acquisition of...