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...Robert Toll's sell-off that rattled analysts and investors the most, as many recall how Toll in 2005 sold off large blocks of shares in his company just as the homebuilding sector was peaking. Toll is viewed as a seasoned and savvy executive with an extraordinary knack for recognizing trends early...
...this led investors to believe a bottom had been reached, says Curran. Many investors may wrongly think the housing sector will see the normal trajectory off the bottom, but that isn't the case, he says. "We still have high foreclosures that will persist into next year, high inventory, an unstable economy and high levels of unemployment" that will prevent the sector from rebounding quickly, he says. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
Still, many analysts believe the 2009 stock run-up among homebuilders has gotten ahead of the sector's pending recovery. "The stocks have gone too far, too fast," says Rob Stevenson, managing director at Fox-Pitt Cochran Caronia. Stevenson isn't surprised by the insider selling at Toll Brothers: "We think the group has gotten overvalued and that a pullback is likely." After all, he notes, "they're still not producing a profit...
...from the Bronzed Age of '80s action movies who still can persuasively embody a haunted, implacable stud. Chuck Norris went into TV, as a Texas Ranger and a cheerleader for Glenn Beck. Jean-Claude Van Damme is mostly reduced to made-for-video cheapies. Schwarzenegger's in the public sector. Jackie Chan still makes movies on both sides of the Pacific, but a lifetime of martial-arts exertions has rendered him creaky. Only Willis remains - the last action hero. (Clint Eastwood doesn't count; he came two decades before these guys and, besides, he's, like, immortal...
...just making a plug for those close-to-home, “I knew him” heroes, through whom some of us live vicariously. We, like millions of other college students, will soon enter the professional world and bestow our brain power upon some sector of it. As wonderful as that is, many of us wish that our agility could match our analytical skills. We champion the few who’ve got both...