Stocks Rise Despite Weak Housing Data

Stocks rose on Thursday, after a choppy morning session. The trend of disappointing data relating to the slumping housing market
continued today, with single-family home sales falling 8.3% last month.

KB Home
(
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reported a loss and its outlook wasn’t much better.
Yesterday, the company also announced plans to offer Disney home product options
to homebuyers (full
story
).

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the U.S. dollar hit another record low versus the euro.

Crude oil reached a new record high of $82.82 per barrel.



Stocks in the News

Bed Bath & Beyond
(
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Advances on Q2 Results, Buyback (read
more
).

Xyratex
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Tumbles on Q3 Results, Outlook (read
more
).

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Market Snapshot

Dow

34.79 13912.94

NASDAQ

10.56 13912.94

S&P 500

5.96 1531.38

NYSE NASDAQ

Volume

1,181,216,830 1,774,441,432

Up Volume

773,654,180 1,024,184,554

Down Volume

392,135,500 689,605,346

Advances

2216 1727

Declines

1079 1231

New Highs

205 118

New Lows

45 68


Strongest/Weakest Industry Groups

Strongest Industries

Weakest Industries

Manufactured
Housing
Music
& Video Stores

Nonmetallic Mineral Mining
Auto
Dealerships
Air Services,
Other

Sporting Goods





Economic
News

New Home Sales (Aug): Actual 795K,
Consensus 825K