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US stock markets staged an impressive recovery on Wednesday, after initially falling sharply on the back of a weaker than expected Q1 GDP report.

Retail brokerage sees record-breaking net deposits, more subscribers to its premium services, higher options volume and “robust” growth in trading across all asset classes.

Major earnings later Wednesday will be closely watched by Wall Street: Qualcomm, Meta, and Microsoft all report after the bell.

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Stock markets look likely to open lower on Wednesday, and this time it might stick, interrupting a six-straight-day winning streak for the S&P 500 and its tracking index, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO). Both the index and the ETF are trending towards a 0.9% decline in pre-market trading after the U.S. Commerce Department […]

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Speaking to investors earlier this month, D.R. Horton CEO Paul Romanowski said that the spring 2025 selling season for America’s-largest homebuilder is off to a slower-than-normal start.

“This year’s spring selling season started slower than expected as potential homebuyers have been more cautious due to continued affordability constraints and declining consumer confidence,” Romanowski said on the company’s earnings call.

It isn’t just D.R. Horton.

“We do not see the seasonal pickup typically associated with the beginning of the spring selling season,” Lennar co-CEO Jon Jaffe told investors on March. “So we continue to lean into our machine focusing on converting leads and appointments and adjusting incentives as needed to maintain sales pace. These adjustments came in the form of mortgage rate buydowns, price reductions, and closing cost assistance.”

Last quarter, Lennar spent the equivalent of 13% of home sales on buyer incentives—up from 1.5% in Q2 2022 at the height of the pandemic housing boom. A 13% incentive on a $400,000 home translates to $52,000 in incentives.

This weaker housing demand environment is causing unsold inventory to tick up. Indeed, since the pandemic housing boom fizzled out, the number of unsold completed U.S. new single-family homes has been rising:

March 2018: 62,000

March 2019: 77,000

March 2020: 76,000

March 2021: 34,000

March 2022: 32,000

March 2023: 70,000

March 2024: 89,000

March 2025: 119,000

The March 2025 figure (119,000 unsold completed new homes) published this month is the highest level since July 2009 (126,000). Let’s take a closer look at the data to better understand what this could mean.

To put the number of unsold completed new single-family homes into historic context, we created a new index: ResiClub’s Finished Homes Supply Index.

The index is one simple calculation: The number of unsold completed U.S. new single-family homes divided by the annualized rate of U.S. single-family housing starts.

A higher index score indicates a softer national new construction market with greater supply slack, while a lower index score signifies a tighter new construction market with less supply slack.

If you look at unsold completed single-family new builds as a share of single-family housing starts (see chart below), it still shows we’ve gained slack; however, it puts us closer to pre-pandemic 2019 levels than the Great Recession of 2007–2009.

While the U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t give us a greater market-by-market breakdown on these unsold new builds, we have a good idea where they are based on total active inventory homes for sale (including existing homes) that have spiked above pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Most of those areas are in the Sun Belt around the Gulf.

Builders are facing pricing pressure in some housing markets, especially in key Florida and Texas markets, where active inventory has jumped back above pre-pandemic 2019 levels.

Big picture: There’s greater slack in the new construction market now than a few years ago, giving buyers some leverage in certain markets to negotiate better deals with homebuilders.

Old-school and new-age data points to economic uncertainty ahead.

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In President Joe Biden’s first 100 days, the S&P 500 surged more than 9%. Under Trump, it’s tanked almost 8%.

CEOs are tightening their belts because of the current market uncertainty, Solomon said.