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Home Depot's 1st-Quarter Net Up 18% Amid Better Housing Market

Home Depot Inc.'s (HD) fiscal first-quarter earnings jumped 18% as the improving housing market trumped uncooperative weather during the period and the home-improvement retailer looks forward to a solid second quarter.Home Depot also benefited from buying related to Hurricane Sandy, where rebuilding of homes is still going on in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.The showing was another strong quarter for Home Depot, whose own turnaround, on top of improving conditions for home construction and new home sales, has produced solid quarterly results. The report set a high bar for rival Lowe's Cos. (LOW), which reports its first-quarter results Wednesday."Increasing household formation, price appreciation, and higher housing turnover are all positives for our market," said Chief Executive Frank Blake on a conference call.But "credit availability remains tight and constrains the velocity of the recovery," Mr. Blake said.Sales related to Hurricane Sandy were approximately $145 million in the sec...

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    U.S. home builders' confidence rose this month, with sales expectations rising to the highest level in more than five years, a sign the housing market will keep driv...

  10. Home -builder Confidence Rises In May

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  11. MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks Edge Lower As Data Disappoint

    U.S. stocks declined on Wednesday, retreating a day after another record-setting rally, as data showed an unexpected contraction in New York-area manufacturing.The N...

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    Housing, particularly new home construction, will be the driver for new jobs to boost economic recovery, mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac (FMCC) said in its late...

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  6. U.S. Housing Starts Sink 16.5% On Multifamily Drop

    Construction of new homes sank last month, a sign of weakness for a part of the economy that has been in recovery mode.Overall housing starts fell 16.5% in April to ...

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    Construction on new U.S. homes dropped 16.5% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 853,000 -- the lowest level since November -- led down by volatile apar...

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