Market Insights

Here's a study that examines an opposite truism to what we continually hear: that shoppers do, by and large, still choose offline over online.

Here's a snapshot of Tuesday's market, as seen through the lens of the HBSDealer Top 30 publicly traded companies.

Existing-home sales bumped up in February despite trends verging in the opposite direction for housing starts.

One of the biggest turnoffs: long lines.

New rules are going into effect in December. Here’s a webinar to explain it all.

Two recent high-profile incidents have proven there’s a lack of basic leadership at the highest levels of government.

The first involved Government Services Administration members partying in grand style all over the United States. The second was the Secret Service prostitute scandal before the hemispheric conference in Columbia. Both examples show a blatant disregard for basic leadership by chief executives in some of our top agencies.

Unbelievably unethical

A Home Improvement Research Institute study paints a generally positive forecast for 2015.

Arlington, Va. -- During the Home Improvement Research Institute Spring Conference, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) forecast a 2.3% gain in 2012 existing home sales.

In a “Mortgage Market Outlook” presentation, Mike Fratantoni, VP of single-family research for the MBA pointed to the 2012 forecast of 4.391 million existing home sales, up 2.3% from 2010. The forecast for 2013 is for 4.646 million.