Archive for August, 2008
Buzz me up!
Yahoo has opened up a new article voting service called Yahoo! Buzz. The articles in the right column here on my site are from the Buzz Business category. If you check it out, the top stories currently have only a few votes, so I would like to see if I can get a few articles [...]
Home prices have stopped falling - statistics are skewed
This excerpt from a response to the Sacramento Bee real estate blog gives me doubts concerning the “accuracy” of the median price data of the current crop of existing home sales. If you are a regular reader here you know I have been tracking the Sacramento area real estate market for several months. If not, [...]
Thornburg Mortgage will survive
It is about a year ago now that the credit crisis first started affecting jumbo mortgage originator Thornburg Mortgage (TMA: 0.00 N/A N/A). In early August 2007 the stock was still trading in the low $20’s and rumors were just starting about what was soon to become a full blown crisis in the mortgage industry. [...]
New Energy Finance - NEX - Weekly Review
Each week I provide a review of the previous week’s performance of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, symbol NEX. This information is provided by New Energy Finance. The NEX consists of about 90 stocks from 20 countries in seven sectors and is the bogey for the PowerShares Global Clean [...]
Home sales up 73% in Sacramento
Top Stories - Home sales up again across Sacramento region - sacbee.com.
Existing home sales in the Sacramento region increased in July for the 4th straight month and posted a 4th straight year over year increase. Existing home sales in July were 5% higher that June 2008 66% higher than July 2007. Homes sales have taken [...]
