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RETAIL Sales Surge After Target Tames Supply Backups Target delivered another strong quarter, overcoming a slew of challenges from inflationary pressures to congested ports. Third-quarter profits rose nearly 47 percent, [...]

Net income for Toll Brothers, the luxury home builder, increased in its fiscal third quarter as it delivered more homes and average sales prices rose. But the company also reported [...]

Toll Brothers reported that its revenue rose 65 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 as buyers went looking for bigger homes -- especially bigger kitchens and master suites. The [...]

MIAMI (AP) -- The home builder Lennar said on Wednesday that its net income more than tripled in the first quarter as new orders and deliveries continued to rise. The [...]

Lennar, the country's No. 3 home builder, on Tuesday reported a sharp rise in quarterly profit and a seventh straight increase in new-home orders, in further evidence that a housing [...]

MIAMI (AP) -- The Lennar Corporation a leading homebuilder, reported Monday that its net income more than quadrupled in its fiscal third quarter, bolstered by an increase in new orders [...]

KB Home, the house building company, posted an unexpected quarterly profit on Friday and said its backlog of revenue from houses under construction rose to its highest level since the [...]

Hovnanian Enterprises, the largest homebuilder in New Jersey, reported an unexpected profit on Thursday for its fiscal third quarter as orders jumped and it recorded a tax benefit. The company [...]

The home builder Hovnanian Enterprisesposted its first quarterly profit in more than two years on Wednesday as home deliveries grew, sending its shares up 25 percent. Housing starts last month [...]

The Fluor Corporation, an engineering company, recorded a small profit increase that beat analysts' estimates, while reporting that its backlog of work expanded to a new high. The company said [...]

ATLANTA (AP) -- Beazer Homes USA said on Tuesday that it lost $54.6 million in its fiscal second quarter, weighed down by falling home values and rising foreclosures in the [...]

Beazer Homes posted a quarterly loss of $48.8 million on Tuesday on a decline in closings and new orders. The company said the resultsmeant a loss of 66 cents a [...]

The luxury home builder Toll Brothers beat Wall Street expectations and reported its first quarterly profit in three years on Wednesday, helped by tax gains and lower write-downs on land [...]

D.R. Horton, the American home builder, reported its third consecutive quarterly profit on Tuesday after sales climbed and the company cut costs. Net income was $50.5 million, or 16 cents [...]

PulteGroup, the home builder, posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Wednesday, but its shares fell as orders missed Wall Street's expectations. The company reported a first-quarter loss of $12.5 million, [...]

Komatsu, the Japanese heavy equipment maker, said Friday it expected sales in China to rise by half as the country's 10 percent growth rate drives demand for resources like coal [...]

The home builder Toll Brothers posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Wednesday as it took fewer write-downs and pointed to an improved housing market. But a bleak report from the [...]

Mr. Toll, 69, is the chairman and chief executive of Toll Brothers Inc., one of the country's largest builders of luxury homes. Toll Brothers was founded by Mr. Toll and [...]

Beazer Homes USA posted a quarterly profit on Friday, helped by a hefty tax gain. The company said it earned $48 million, or $1.17 a share, in the quarter, reversing [...]

Toll Brothers, the luxury home builder, reported a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday and said it expected sales in its 2010 fiscal year to decline at least 7 percent. The […]

KB Home, the home builder, reported a deeper quarterly loss than Wall Street expected on Friday and its chief executive warned that he did not expect meaningful improvement in the […]

D. R. Horton and Pulte Homes, the two largest home builders in the United States, reported quarterly losses and said the outlook for the housing market remained difficult. The builders […]

The builder KB Home cut its first-quarter losses by 78 percent as first-time buyers flocked to its smaller and more affordable homes, but the company warned that the housing market […]

The luxury home builder Toll Brothers narrowed its loss in its first quarter, offsetting a drop in revenue with cuts in its expenses. For the quarter ended in January, Toll […]

The home builder D. R. Horton said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter loss widened as it took more than $1 billion in write-downs tied to declining land values and as sales […]

The luxury home builder Toll Brothers said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter home building revenue dropped 41 percent as the financial crisis worsened an already weak housing market. Toll said preliminary […]

Toll Brothers, the luxury home builder, said Thursday it swung to a loss in its fiscal third quarter as weak demand for new homes forced it to mark down the […]

Toll Brothers, the builder of luxury homes, reported a second-quarter loss on Tuesday, still hurt by plunging home prices and a weakened economy. But the results were better than expected, […]

D. R. Horton, the home builder, said Tuesday that it swung to a loss in the second quarter as a sustained housing slump forced it to take hefty charges and […]

The English Channel tunnel operator, Groupe Eurotunnel, reported its first annual net profit, $1.57 million for 2007, less than a year after the company nearly drowned in debt. Since the […]

Taylor Wimpey, Britain's biggest home builder, said annual profit fell 31 percent as property markets cooled in Britain, the United States and Spain. Pretax profit before one-time items totaled £536 […]

The luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc. said Wednesday that it swung to a loss in the first quarter as write-downs on properties it could no longer sell at a profit […]

D. R. Horton, the largest American home builder, is the latest company to post results reflecting the depressed housing market. The company posted a first-quarter loss on Thursday, as sales […]

Toll Brothers Inc., the nation's largest builder of luxury homes, said yesterday that it had a loss for its fourth quarter during what the company calls the worst housing downturn […]

Toll Brothers, the nation's largest builder of luxury homes, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit plunged 84.8 percent as the housing downturn and credit worries resulted in cancellations and hefty […]

The home builder Pulte Homes posted a second-quarter loss yesterday after one of the largest write-downs for impairments and land-related costs that United States builders have taken. Pulte reported a […]

D. R. Horton, the home builder, said Tuesday that it would post a loss for the just-ended quarter after net orders fell 40 percent and it wrote down the value […]

KB Home, one of the nation's largest home builders, posted a loss for its most recent quarter on Thursday as it wrote down the value of its inventory amid declining […]

Lennar, a leading home builder, said Tuesday that it had a second-quarter loss as inventories of unsold homes rose. The company reduced prices and offered incentives to attract buyers, but […]

D. R. Horton, the largest United States home builder, said yesterday that orders for new homes tumbled 37 percent last quarter and that the spring selling season had begun more […]

The home builder KB Home posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss yesterday, sending its shares up, after taking a $343.3 million noncash charge for declining land values. The company reported a […]

Toll Brothers, the nation's largest builder of luxury homes, said Thursday that it expected first-quarter home building revenue to fall by 19 percent. The company also warned that write-downs were […]

Two of the nation's major home builders reported dismal results in their most recent quarters yesterday, confirming that the slump in the once-hot housing market is far from over. Toll […]

The Lennar Corporation, the homebuilder, said yesterday that profit fell 39 percent in its fiscal third quarter, partly as a result of the cost of incentives to lure buyers as [...]

Bubble, bubble, Toll's in trouble. This week, Toll Brothers, the nation's premier builder of McMansions, announced that sales were way off, profits were down, and the company was walking away […]

D. R. Horton cut its profit expectations and announced that recent sales orders fell more than 7 percent from a year ago, setting off a 7 percent decline in its […]

Toll Brothers, the builder of luxury homes, reported a 3 percent increase in quarterly income on Tuesday but said higher costs for materials and labor as well as steeper write-downs […]

Toll Brothers, the builder of luxury homes, said on Friday that signed contracts for its homes fell 29 percent in the second quarter and that home deliveries for the year [...]

Eurotunnel, the operator of the rail tunnel linking Britain and France, said first-quarter sales rose 4.1 percent as the number of cars and buses being carried through it increased. Revenue […]

KB Home, a builder of new homes, said yesterday that its third-quarter net income rose 20 percent, driven by a greater number of homes sold and higher margins. KB said […]