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Pharma, Housing Lead the Market — Tuesday’s IP Market Recap

After starting off on a down note, the S&P and Dow rallied to gains while the Nasdaq managed to hold down losses to a fraction.

5 Funds to Play the Real Estate Rebound

These funds -- which come at the housing market from several different directions -- all stand to keep rising as homebuyers keep coming back.

5 Surprises and 5 Disappointments of 2012

From housing's rebound to Apple's stock tumble, here's where the year provided delights and where it let us down.

3 Durable Goods Stocks to Buy Now

Three Durable Goods stocks are moving up in their overall rating this week, according to the Portfolio Grader database. Every one of these is graded an "A" ("strong buy") or "B" overall ("buy").

Rising Tide Lifts Banks, Homebuilders — Monday’s IP Market Recap

Optimism over Republicans' latest fiscal cliff offer helped to broadly lift markets, with financial and housing-related stocks among the day's best performers.

S&P 500 Ends Its Streak — Thursday’s IP Market Recap

The markets ended in the red for the day in the wake of Boehner's fiscal cliff remarks, and in the face of strong retail sales and a sharp slide in jobless claims.

HPQ Calls Shenanigans! — Tuesday’s IP Market Recap

Hewlett-Packard was blasted after announcing a massive writeoff on its acquisition of Autonomy amid a mixed day for the broader indices.

Are Homebuilder Stocks Weakening?

Homebuilder stocks have been booming this year. As they begin to show their first cracks, though, investors need to be extra picky.

Beazer’s Weakness Is All Its Own

Beazer Homes' poor earnings report sent the homebuilding sector to the floor Monday ... but as a group, homebuilders are holding up much better than BZH.

Not Enough Spark From ‘Merger Monday’ — Monday’s IP Market Recap

Wall Street saw three big deals in the mergers & acquisition world Monday, but the markets mostly shrugged with a flat performance.

Move Into an Options Duplex Before Earnings

Beazer Homes and D.R. Horton aren't the hottest stars in the housing sector, but they still present an opportunity for options traders ahead of earnings.

Building a Bullish Case for Hovnanian

Investors might consider HOV as though it were a call option on the homebuilder sector.

Walk — Don’t Run — Into Hovnanian

Shares of Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV) have more than tripled this year, leaving many investors wondering whether there's any upside left in the homebuilder.

3 Ways to Play Housing — Without Betting on Homebuilders

Homebuilders are overcrowded and overbought. You can do better now with companies from these related but overlooked sectors instead.

Housing Booms, Tech Breaks — Wednesday’s IP Market Recap

A four-year best in housing starts sent homebuilders upward and onward Wednesday, but the tech sector was slammed after poor reports from IBM and Intel.

Ben Hurls a Bolt of Quantitative Lightning — Thursday’s IP Market Recap

Markets staged a broad rally after Ben Bernanke announced that the Federal Reserve would launch another round of quantitative easing.

Follow Homebuilders to Higher Ground

Homebuilders are picking up a head of steam; use call options to profit from the move at a fraction of the cost of stocks.

Europe, America Play Well Together — Thursday’s IP Market Recap

Stocks roared Thursday on a double dose of good news, from the ECB and on the U.S. jobs front. Also, Navistar and Men's Wearhouse surged on earnings.

It’s The Same Old Story — Wednesday’s IP Market Recap

Stocks mostly meandered Wednesday as investors sat waiting on news from the ECB and on the American jobs front.