A Mea Culpa on Home Builders

``"It appears that this time around, there will need to be a modicum of good news before a sustainable rebound in the stocks can take shape." ... According to Mr. Kim, the length of the housing market’s downturn has produced a number of conditions that appear similar to low points in the market — but the steady erosion of economic strength has hurt the resale market, and that in turn is affecting publicly traded builders of new homes.''