Home building stocks continue to rise, up nearly 60% year-to-date
By: Timothy Pollard
Published: December 20, 2012
Optimism about a recovery in the U.S. housing sector has fueled massive gains for homebuilding stocks this year. Whether the housing recovery is sustainable or purely speculative is to be seen; but through Dec. 19, the SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF has posted a year-to-date total return of 57.9%, outperforming the Russell 3000 by a whopping 4,086 basis points.








