Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The former head of Centex Corp.'s home building operations in Sacramento, Reno and the Bay Area has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging it failed to pay $355,000 in promised bonus money.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The former head of Centex Corp. home building operations in Sacramento, Reno and the Bay Area has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging it failed to pay $355,000 in promised bonus money.
The Nashville Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
CTX Mortgage Co., the financing arm of homebuilder Centex Corp., is putting all of its retail offices up for sale.
High Probability Trading (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A picture I took of What use to be Washington Mutuals Home Loan center. (took this pic a few weeks ago). Beazer Homes is in the same complex, and CENTEX homes is across the street. All these Mortgage houses are near my work, in the beautiful city of Roseville, California. Nearby is the City of Granite Bay. The people in Granite Bay are rich. The kids all drive BMW's and Mercedes. Walk into the nearby...
The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
CTX Mortgage Co., the financing arm of homebuilder Centex Corp., is putting all of its retail offices up for sale.
Footnoted.org (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Later today, the National Association of Home Builders will release its monthly homebuilder sentiment index and by all accounts it is expected to be pretty gloomy. Given that backdrop, the 8K that Centex (CTX) filed late yesterday certainly seems interesting. While the filing tackles a number of different issues related to last week’s shareholder meeting, where [...]
The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Investors approved a proposal Thursday that requires Centex Corp. board directors to stand for election every year. (CTX)
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
DALLAS, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centex Corporation (NYSE: CTX) announced preliminary results of voting on stockholder proposals presented at the Company's 2008 Annual Meeting, held earlier today: PROPOSAL SUBJECT STATUS % OF SHARES % OF % OF VOTING IN SHARES SHARES FAVOR* VOTING ABSTAINED* AGAINST* 1 Election of All 86.1 1.57 N/A Directors nominees elected 2 Ratification of Approved...
DCmud - The Metro Urban Diary (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
After years of discussion and revision, Centex's Symphony Park project in Montgomery County may have reached its coda. Named for its proximity to the nearby Strathmore Music Center, Symphony Park, which will offer 112 one-family, attached townhouses, will go before the Montgomery County Planning Board tomorrow with recommended approval from the Development Review Division. The new development
The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Citing a desire for more accountability, Amalgamated Bank's LongView Funds wants the board of directors at homebuilder Centex Corp. to hold director elections annually instead of remaining with its current system of classified elections. (CTX)
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of home builder Centex Corp. were up more than 4% to $14.02 in morning trade Wednesday after UBS analysts upgraded the stock to buy from neutral. They said the stock has fallen heavier than the group average over the past two months. "Although we continue to believe the overall housing market will remain weak, in our opinion the underperformance experienced is overdone,...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Now we are officially in a bear market. Stocks of most sectors are punished. You can certainly find a lot of Guru stocks that have declined. Related Companies: Centex Corp. (CTX), Freddie Mac (FRE), International Paper Company (IP), Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (MI), Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD).
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Credit Suisse has issued a new coverage rating systems for its homebuilder universe. These are some of the calls we saw in the sector: Centex (NYSE: CTX), DR... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Despite a contracted mortgage market, financing is still being offered to qualified home buyers, said Lawrence Angelilli, senior vice president of finance at Centex Corp. , at an industry conference Thursday. "Actually if you were to turn back the clock to the year 2000, probably somebody who qualified for a mortgage in 2000 would qualify for a mortgage today," he said. "There's...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Lawrence Angelilli, senior vice president of finance at Centex Corp. , said the "wild card everyone is waiting to see" in the housing market is if the U.S. slips into a true economic recession. "No one who was unemployed ever bought a house," the executive said during a webcast on Thursday at the Bank of America 2008 Home Builders Conference in New York. Angelilli said the...
