What will 2025 bring to the stock market?

[Joe Flacco]

What about Microsoft, does this make you want to buy the dip?

 

[Joe Flacco]

They could go higher whenever the market comes out of the correction but I wouldn't be surprised if the mega techs go range bound for a few years.

 

[Charles West]

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If you guys are looking for something to buy this year to hold for the next 5+ years, look at the banks. I think this is the last pull back before it breaks out of this 20 year base.

Deregulation will benefit the financial sector big time.

 

[Joe Flacco]

Not too late to get in the home builders. Pullback setting up a higher low.

 

[Fernando]

Builder Confidence Falls on Cost Uncertainty

Economic uncertainty, the threat of tariffs and elevated construction costs pushed builder sentiment down in March even as builders express hope that a better regulatory environment will lead to an improving business climate.

www.nahb.org

Builder Confidence Falls on Cost Uncertainty​

Economic uncertainty, the threat of tariffs and elevated construction costs pushed builder sentiment down in March even as builders express hope that a better regulatory environment will lead to an improving business climate.

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 39 in March, down three points from February and the lowest level in seven months, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today.

“Builders continue to face elevated building material costs that are exacerbated by tariff issues, as well as other supply-side challenges that include labor and lot shortages,” said NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes, a home builder and developer from Lexington, N.C. “At the same time, builders are starting to see relief on the regulatory front to bend the rising cost curve, as demonstrated by the Trump administration's pause of the 2021 IECC building code requirement and move to implement the regulatory definition of ‘waters of the United States’ under the Clean Water Act consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision.”

“Construction firms are facing added cost pressures from tariffs,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz. “Data from the HMI March survey reveals that builders estimate a typical cost effect from recent tariff actions at $9,200 per home. Uncertainty on policy is also having a negative impact on home buyers and development decisions.”

 

[Airstream]

Builder Confidence Falls on Cost Uncertainty

Economic uncertainty, the threat of tariffs and elevated construction costs pushed builder sentiment down in March even as builders express hope that a better regulatory environment will lead to an improving business climate.

www.nahb.org

Builder Confidence Falls on Cost Uncertainty​

Economic uncertainty, the threat of tariffs and elevated construction costs pushed builder sentiment down in March even as builders express hope that a better regulatory environment will lead to an improving business climate.

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 39 in March, down three points from February and the lowest level in seven months, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today.

“Builders continue to face elevated building material costs that are exacerbated by tariff issues, as well as other supply-side challenges that include labor and lot shortages,” said NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes, a home builder and developer from Lexington, N.C. “At the same time, builders are starting to see relief on the regulatory front to bend the rising cost curve, as demonstrated by the Trump administration's pause of the 2021 IECC building code requirement and move to implement the regulatory definition of ‘waters of the United States’ under the Clean Water Act consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision.”

“Construction firms are facing added cost pressures from tariffs,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz. “Data from the HMI March survey reveals that builders estimate a typical cost effect from recent tariff actions at $9,200 per home. Uncertainty on policy is also having a negative impact on home buyers and development decisions.”

You read to much negative news. Actually construction activity is up. https://www.credaily.com/briefs/us-home-construction-picks-up-after-winter-thaw/

This is the problem with the Anti-Trump media. All you hear is this and that and how bad it is. But did you also know that production is up Factory output jumped 0.9% in February, following a revised 0.1% gain in January. Maybe get a different news source. Remember it isn't just what they say, it is what they don't say.

 

[Airstream]

Markets going up and down by 1% are not too be of concern. It's when the overall trend goes down like now that should have us worry that Trump's policies are affecting the economy adversely.

Do you understand market corrections? I suggest you do a search on it. You will find they happen all the time, and it is more than just 1%. And look at the trend lines over the last 10 years. You have many many corrections. Yet the trend is to the up side.

 

[Fernando]

You read to much negative news. Actually construction activity is up. https://www.credaily.com/briefs/us-home-construction-picks-up-after-winter-thaw/

This is the problem with the Anti-Trump media. All you hear is this and that and how bad it is. But did you also know that production is up Factory output jumped 0.9% in February, following a revised 0.1% gain in January. Maybe get a different news source. Remember it isn't just what they say, it is what they don't say.

I didn't make it up. It's from National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). When doing your reports, state the facts.

 

[Airstream]

I didn't make it up. It's from National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). When doing your reports, state the facts.

It is very hard to gauge builder sentiment and whether that is reality or not. This is a HARD FACT: starts are up. It is verified by the actual numbers and not some wishy washy feeling called sentiment. Depending upon the day, people’s feelings fluctuate, and often have little to do with reality. I lived in a rural area around farmers for over 25 years, and the one thing is that farmers were always complaining about this or that. I can’t ever remember hearing about how great the market was. NEVER. But at the end of the year they had a bumper harvest.

 

[glenn walker]

This is going to end up as a great year. Don't let the corrections and negative news effect your plans.