(NECN) - A positive start to a new quarter, but the market's gains are tempered ahead of tomorrow's jobs report. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 8,504-- a jump of 57 points-- more than half a percent. The Nasdaq composi...
Video|Wed, 1 Jul 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…disinterested because most analysts if you talk to them say that the housing market has to recover. In order for our overall economy and for the markets to recover but the markets have clearly recovered dramatically …”
(NECN) - The month of June closed out with a lower markets finish, in line with a surprise dip in a consumer confidence report. Jim Lowell, chief investment strategist for Adviser Investments and editor of FidelityInvestor.com, issues his analy...
Video|Tue, 30 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…ninety 220 days of getting bailed out so this is still -- housing market that remains in crisis despite the bad that in Boston we actually saw prices take up. Well you know victory as you …”
(NECN) - Stocks finished mixed, but mostly higher after the Fed reported the economy is on the mend. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 23 points-- a fraction of a percent-- to close at nearly 8,300. The Nasdaq composite gained 27-- on...
Video|Wed, 24 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…is that. The next wave of home buyers really critical stimulating the housing market recovery. And alongside that the overall economic recovery. Has yet has yet to be hazardous to be seen and has yet to be stimulated anyway from the federal government we still do not see I think enough activity. And that key sector in order to basically rebuild the housing market and just quickly do we needed a -- another stimulus package we absolutely do we need to see a stimulus package for …”
“…that when you look across the landscape whether you're looking at the housing market whether you're looking in manufacturing activity. But they're looking Consumer Spending what we still -- is just to decline of the recent …”
(NECN: Washington) - The Federal Reserve is holding a key bank lending rate at a record low of between zero and 0.25%. The Fed says the economy likely will remain weak, even as the recession eases. Even though energy and other commodity pr...
Video|Wed, 24 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…in the system to our. Keep interest rates lower to spur the housing market and Consumer Spending. Again the Federal Reserve holding the line on interest rates and suggesting that the recession is season. On Wall …”
(NECN) - Stocks end mixed, as investors wait for the Federal Reserve. The fed's two-day meeting ends tomorrow. The numbers changed just a fraction of a percent...
Video|Tue, 23 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…no activity on that front and without that activity. This is a housing market recovery that may be stalled. …”
(NECN: Peter Howe, Needham, Mass.) - It's been barely a half-year since Congress expanded and sweetened a first-time home-buyer tax credit. But already, many are saying it's time to expand it further to help a housing market still deep i...
Video|Mon, 22 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…bottoming out starting to recover but there equally strong concerns that the housing market is still stuck in reverse any. ATN's Peter Howe joins us with a new forecast and a proposal to sweeten the deal for first time buyers on the home front Peter. -- thanks Jeff visited new study yet today from the Harvard joint center for housing studies that describes this as the worst housing market in decades home sales in new starts. Probably bottoming out but between tightening mortgage standards and more more people losing their jobs. …”
“…New proof of how much help the housing market needs. Came from Harvard joint center for housing studies report it says we've hit a sixteen year low in housing starts and …”
(NECN) - It's time for our monthly Boston business editors roundtable with Shirley Leung, Business Editor of The Boston Globe; Frank Quaratiello, Business Editor of The Boston Herald; and George Donnelly, Editor of The Boston Business Journal...
Video|Sun, 14 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…refinancing. Com. It's coming really complicated now because of the slumping housing market because they're so few sales it's hard to come up with a crack -- com. So what happens is you know render we'll say it's it's worth your house is worth 100001000. That and other pacers had no it's more like 37. And then everyone is scrambling to try to maybe -- agree so that you can house sales were not that could be bad news for the housing market. . …”
In Massachusetts, the spring housing market is blooming in some areas, but withering in others. WBUR's Monica Brady-Myerov reports.
Audio|Mon, 8 Jun 2009|More from WBUR: Daily News Update
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“…not showing much sprint. WB you are Monica Brady-Myerov takes stock of housing market right now. In Burlington a three bedroom. Ranch is getting spruced up for sale with some yard work well this is a …”
“…economics professor at Wellesley College says you should look at the Massachusetts housing market zip code by zip code. …”
(NECN) - Throughout the past few years, the recession has slowly taken a toll on the housing market , the automotive industry and on retailers. But there's one part of the New England economy that's booming as a result of the poor economy...
Video|Thu, 4 Jun 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…the past few years the recession has slowly taken a toll on housing market the automotive industry and on retailers but there's one part of the New England economy that's booming as a result of the …”
Governor Romney sheds some light on 'Government Motors.'
Audio|Tue, 2 Jun 2009|More from Michael Graham, WTKK, Boston, MA
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“…when via. The great day of reckoning will probably go in the housing market it came just a couple of years ago we had the bubble burst. And and the president is leveraging up our country …”