Stocks rise on earnings and economic reports NEW YORK Investors regained some enthusiasm for stocks yesterday, sending prices sharply higher after reports showed a slight improvement in the housing market and a big jump in industrial production. Investors were also encouraged by earnings from Home Depot Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores ...

Investors regained some enthusiasm for stocks Tuesday, sending prices sharply higher after reports showed a slight improvement in the housing market and a big jump in industrial production. The Commerce Department said construction of new homes and apartments rose 1.7 percent in July, but applications for building permits fell by a higher than expected 3.1 percent. Home sales have struggled to ...

Market confidence was restored on Tuesday as a strong industrial production report, an improvement in the housing market and better-than-expected earnings showed that economy is still growing, though slowly.

Market confidence was restored on Tuesday as a strong industrial production report, an improvement in the housing market and better-than-expected earnings showed that economy is still growing, though slowly.

Wal-Mart, Home Depot Help Market

Wal-Mart, Home Depot Help Market

Wal-Mart, Home Depot Help Market

Investors regained some enthusiasm for stocks Tuesday, sending prices sharply higher after reports showed a slight improvement in the housing market and a big jump in industrial production.

NEW YORK -- Investors regained some enthusiasm for stocks Tuesday, sending prices sharply higher after reports showed a slight improvement in the housing market and a big jump in industrial production.

By Luis Perez, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Workers raise the roof frame of a Bartlett Park home being built from shipping containers. The project produced only one home. “Financially, it just never made sense,” said Thomas de Yampert, the city’s manager of housing and community development. ST. PETERSBURG — Five years ago, the city joined a nonprofit housing agency in a project ...

Investors regained some enthusiasm for stocks Tuesday, sending prices sharply higher after reports showed a slight improvement in the housing market and a big jump in industrial production.

ETFs are suffering from investor weariness about the housing market.

Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun In 2004, Benson city officials talked of "explosive" growth coming this way, corporate centers preparing for construction, housing developments set to bring hundreds to thousands of new homes to the area and dreams of how much all this growth would bring in added revenues to city coffers.

Better-than-expected earnings from Home Depot Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.gave investors a reason to buy stocks. While recent economic barometers have left investors skittish, today the Labor Department's wholesale prices report lessened worries about deflation.

Wal-Mart, Home Depot news sends stocks rising

Stocks rallied Tuesday after a Federal Reserve regional president said fears about the central bank's outlook were "unwarranted" and investors shifted their focus to strong earnings from Wal-Mart and Home Depot.

Stocks were set to rise Tuesday after reports that showed wholesale prices rising for the first time since March and a slight improvement in the weak housing market.

Housing construction edged up 1.7 percent in July but applications for building permits fell, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. United States Department of Commerce - Construction permit - Real estate - Business - Commerce Department

The major renovation of two previously foreclosed Mechanic Street homes for low-income rental opportunities will have a federal and local flavor.

Some Franklin County property owners may have to begin investing in flood insurance, while others may be allowed to cancel their policies next year.