homebuilder

On Wednesday, the U.S. Commerce Department released its housing data which showed sales of single-family homes dropped 14.5 percent in March.  The seasonally adjusted rate of 384,000 sales is the lowest since the summer of 2013 which has some economists worried about weakening demand. As a...

      After outperforming the first two months of the year, the home building  stocks have been falling apart in March as investors begin to second-guess the housing recovery. The 10 percent pullback in the SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (NYSE: XHB) from a multi-year high could either be...

No one likes being mislead, but it does happen occasionally to ETF investors. That is not to say fund issuers are maliciously misleading investors. However, a few minutes (literally less than five minutes) of homework before buying an ETF can help investors avoid surprises. Take the example...