September 12, 2007 | Vol 2, Num 36
W&D Weekly, Delivering the Fenestration Industry to Your Desktop
The Latest...
GlassBuild Provides First Look
at Many New Products
Bystronic to Move Headquarters
GlassBuild Speaker Helps Companies Strategize in Current Economic Climate
The Outside View...
The Talk...
e-Poll
From what I see, the industry is approaching capital investments...
...with a long-term outlook, investing now to be ready when business rebounds.
...at a slower pace than before, but still with some momentum.
...like the plague, being cautious until they have a better feel for the timing of the recovery.



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The Outside View...

Realtors Predict Drop in 2007 Home Sales
from Yahoo! Finance
A trade group for real estate agents on Tuesday lowered its forecast 2007 existing home sales for the seventh-straight month, predicting a drop of 8.6 percent from last year. The National Association of Realtors' revised monthly prediction calls for U.S. existing home sales of 5.9 million in 2007, down from 6.5 million last year. The forecast was below last month's prediction of a 6.8 percent drop... read more

Next In Line For Subprime Hit: Bonds?
from CNN Money
Could the housing market's woes spread to bonds held in mutual funds by millions of ordinary investors? Some experts - and hedge fund investors who have made big bets that the mortgage crisis will worsen - are saying that's exactly what will happen. Some bond funds that invest in riskier short-term debt already have been whacked by soaring default rates on bonds backed by subprime loans made to borrowers with weak credit... read more

KB Homes Not Laughing About Hurricane Katrina Follies in Louisiana
from BloggingStocks
Amazing as it might seem the State Legislature of Louisiana has seen fit to recreate Yossarian's nightmarish experience in "Catch-22" by killing legislation that might have helped house some folks in New Orleans in a more expeditious fashion. You might have read or heard that KB Homes has been trying to develop various projects in and around New Orleans since soon after Hurricane Katrina departed... read more

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