Home Depot earnings stoke optimism. Is it misplaced? | csmonitor.com

Jeanne Murphy shopped at a Home Depot in Danvers, Mass., in June. The company, America’s biggest home -improvement retailer, did better than analysts expected but still saw sales fall 9 percent in the second quarter compared with a year …

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New-home sales up, prices down in US and abroad | csmonitor.com

In June, the sales of new US homes jumped a higher-than-anticipated 11 percent from the level in May, the Commerce Department reported (.pdf) Monday. The new report suggests that the home -building industry is nearly halfway back to its …

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