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Best,

Judy]]> Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:26:37 -0400
Best,

Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/260581/comments?source=feed#comment-1558586 1558586 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:31:38 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/260581/comments?source=feed#comment-1558585 1558585 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:31:07 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/260566/comments?source=feed#comment-1556504 1556504 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:48:10 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/260566/comments?source=feed#comment-1556497 1556497 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:37:34 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/123165-sa-editor-judy-weil/2806-the-democratization-of-finance?source=feed#comment-1391152 1391152
Believe it or not, this is the first time I actually read over my instablog and saw that you commented. So after apologizing for not responding earlier- I just thought I'd say hi and wish you a happy new year. Hope you are well,

All the best,

Judy]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:55:25 -0500
Believe it or not, this is the first time I actually read over my instablog and saw that you commented. So after apologizing for not responding earlier- I just thought I'd say hi and wish you a happy new year. Hope you are well,

All the best,

Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/238040/comments?source=feed#comment-1326884 1326884 Enjoy]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:58:27 -0500 Enjoy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/235629/comments?source=feed#comment-1297159 1297159 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:38:29 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/432123-dialectical-materialist/104051-what-the-thumbs-up-with-that?source=feed#comment-1297147 1297147
The guiding principle has always been: If we can develop a community with a level of discourse that is respectful as well as insightful and interesting, then we will truly be unique. Everyone wants to be part of something that is of high quality.

So, I like Eli's summation of your ideas, although I think there should be something in between 'report abuse' and 'great comment'. Some of our readers get carried away and they should learn to be more respectful. I'm just worried that if we block the borderline cases completely, people will start to cry: 'censorship!'

What do you think?]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:39:38 -0500
The guiding principle has always been: If we can develop a community with a level of discourse that is respectful as well as insightful and interesting, then we will truly be unique. Everyone wants to be part of something that is of high quality.

So, I like Eli's summation of your ideas, although I think there should be something in between 'report abuse' and 'great comment'. Some of our readers get carried away and they should learn to be more respectful. I'm just worried that if we block the borderline cases completely, people will start to cry: 'censorship!'

What do you think?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/216338/comments?source=feed#comment-1131978 1131978
I apologize for the misleading title. I chose it and not the author, and it was a poor choice!
Thanks for your feedback and my apologies to the author, Andy Zaky, as well.

Judy Weil
Opinion and Analysis Editor]]> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:03:43 -0400
I apologize for the misleading title. I chose it and not the author, and it was a poor choice!
Thanks for your feedback and my apologies to the author, Andy Zaky, as well.

Judy Weil
Opinion and Analysis Editor]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/209765/comments?source=feed#comment-1065169 1065169 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:09:39 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/204215/comments?source=feed#comment-1018178 1018178
There has been some confusion about this article. The author's original article referred to Seagate Technology, which is how we reprinted it here on Seeking Alpha. Thanks to our observant readers, we were notified that the author likely meant STEC, and that is exactly what happened. The author had changed it on his site, and so we did on SA. He has also provided us with a disclosure, which is now indicated at the bottom of the article.

Thanks for all of your comments,

SA Editor Judy Weil]]> Tue, 11 May 2010 12:28:24 -0400
There has been some confusion about this article. The author's original article referred to Seagate Technology, which is how we reprinted it here on Seeking Alpha. Thanks to our observant readers, we were notified that the author likely meant STEC, and that is exactly what happened. The author had changed it on his site, and so we did on SA. He has also provided us with a disclosure, which is now indicated at the bottom of the article.

Thanks for all of your comments,

SA Editor Judy Weil]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/189574/comments?source=feed#comment-906201 906201 Thanks!]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:08:24 -0500 Thanks!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/182194/comments?source=feed#comment-869432 869432 Thanks!]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:08:27 -0500 Thanks!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/181829/comments?source=feed#comment-847581 847581 I've tested all three and they work for me. Maybe check your player? If not, perhaps try this link: www.marketwatch.com/vi...

Hope that helps,

Best,

Judy]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:22:57 -0500 I've tested all three and they work for me. Maybe check your player? If not, perhaps try this link: www.marketwatch.com/vi...

Hope that helps,

Best,

Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/181765/comments?source=feed#comment-844417 844417
The typos mentioned above have been fixed. We really appreciate your feedback and thank you for taking the time to note spelling and grammar mistakes. This sort of dialogue is one of the Seeking Alpha community's greatest strengths. Keep up the good work!]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:07:16 -0500
The typos mentioned above have been fixed. We really appreciate your feedback and thank you for taking the time to note spelling and grammar mistakes. This sort of dialogue is one of the Seeking Alpha community's greatest strengths. Keep up the good work!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/170718/comments?source=feed#comment-753573 753573
It's available already: seekingalpha.com/artic...

Best,

Judy Weil
SA Editor]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:31:41 -0500
It's available already: seekingalpha.com/artic...

Best,

Judy Weil
SA Editor]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/170437/comments?source=feed#comment-740055 740055 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:37:53 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/170466/comments?source=feed#comment-740011 740011 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:14:59 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/149600/comments?source=feed#comment-593932 593932 Thanks!
Judy]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:55:26 -0400 Thanks!
Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/136695/comments?source=feed#comment-497520 497520 -Ed.]]> Sun, 10 May 2009 09:29:10 -0400 -Ed.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/119603/comments?source=feed#comment-441496 441496
There are definitely signs of life. I wonder if California will be the state to lead us out of this slump? Are you seeing any more signs in Nevada?
Do you get the sense that the worst has passed there?

Appreciate your thoughts,

Judy]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:18:11 -0400
There are definitely signs of life. I wonder if California will be the state to lead us out of this slump? Are you seeing any more signs in Nevada?
Do you get the sense that the worst has passed there?

Appreciate your thoughts,

Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/63800/comments?source=feed#comment-420116 420116 Nice to hear from you. Thanks for the illustrative info. I guess things aren't looking up just yet. Hopefully the standstill in construction will help balance the supply part of the equation soon.

ATB,
Judy]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:57:09 -0400 Nice to hear from you. Thanks for the illustrative info. I guess things aren't looking up just yet. Hopefully the standstill in construction will help balance the supply part of the equation soon.

ATB,
Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/121917/comments?source=feed#comment-408842 408842
Interesting detail, thanks!

ATB,
Judy]]> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:27:56 -0500
Interesting detail, thanks!

ATB,
Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/122736/comments?source=feed#comment-403961 403961 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:56:22 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/120801/comments?source=feed#comment-391505 391505 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:02:42 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/120748/comments?source=feed#comment-390223 390223
No, as you can see from the article my intention is quite the opposite. Since it may be misconstrued, I'm going to change the title. Thanks for the feedback.
Judy]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:16:51 -0500
No, as you can see from the article my intention is quite the opposite. Since it may be misconstrued, I'm going to change the title. Thanks for the feedback.
Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/120054/comments?source=feed#comment-385077 385077
If you read the transcript, Weyerhaeuser execs say they have cut down on logging quite a bit. A good portion of their harvest came from the retrieval of timber that had been felled during storms and natural disasters. It seems what you say is accurate and will likely emerge more clearly as a trend in next quarter's results.

To read the transcript, you can click on the link in the article.

ATB,
Judy]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:07:55 -0500
If you read the transcript, Weyerhaeuser execs say they have cut down on logging quite a bit. A good portion of their harvest came from the retrieval of timber that had been felled during storms and natural disasters. It seems what you say is accurate and will likely emerge more clearly as a trend in next quarter's results.

To read the transcript, you can click on the link in the article.

ATB,
Judy]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/119603/comments?source=feed#comment-383325 383325
Interesting comment. Are you seeing banks lower their prices on REOs or just builders and investors unloading what they have?

After seeing prices go down so drastically in many places, I keep wondering how prices could go down so much further as projected by so many economists and insiders. I think Schiller is expecting 10%-15% more declines nationally.

I've been wondering lately if maybe the hardest-hit areas like California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, are starting to stabilize in terms of prices (sales are up in California and Fla.) and that maybe the further declines that are expected nationally will come from the places that have not been hit so hard yet, like New York, Seattle, and North Carolina, etc.

The fact that you are seeing (cautious) signs of a bottom in Nevada strengthens that idea-- but who knows?? There have been signs of stabilization before and then further declines.

Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts, as always,

Judy

Mcrem51 and Chipseal, glad you find this useful.]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:14:14 -0500
Interesting comment. Are you seeing banks lower their prices on REOs or just builders and investors unloading what they have?

After seeing prices go down so drastically in many places, I keep wondering how prices could go down so much further as projected by so many economists and insiders. I think Schiller is expecting 10%-15% more declines nationally.

I've been wondering lately if maybe the hardest-hit areas like California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, are starting to stabilize in terms of prices (sales are up in California and Fla.) and that maybe the further declines that are expected nationally will come from the places that have not been hit so hard yet, like New York, Seattle, and North Carolina, etc.

The fact that you are seeing (cautious) signs of a bottom in Nevada strengthens that idea-- but who knows?? There have been signs of stabilization before and then further declines.

Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts, as always,

Judy

Mcrem51 and Chipseal, glad you find this useful.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/119603/comments?source=feed#comment-382038 382038
I'm neither long the homebuilders, nor trying to push up or down those stocks. I don't own, have not owned, nor am I short any of them. I am simply pointing out that the homebuilders mentioned above all noted an upturn in sales in January. I don't have the slightest clue as to whether this means the housing slump is turning or is just pausing for air before the industry slips further in to the doldrums.

The homebuilder executives themselves weren't certain. Pulte's, as mentioned above, doesn't see any improvement on the horizon, while Ryland's and Horton's were more positive on the general trend.

I once read an article on Seeking Alpha written by a housing analyst who said he was watching the conference calls of homebuilders. He said the moment they displayed any sort of positive data or noted any positive trends, then that would be the first indication of a turn in the market for him. I, of course, don't have any idea if that is true, but for those that do subscribe to that theory, then here you have the first signs of a positive trend.

Many of the articles that I have read on housing point to further declines ahead, so I would say one month's sales would be pretty risky to use as a bottom indicator.

The point of this article, and conference call excerpts in general is to highlight how much information we can glean from the free conference call transcripts that Seeking Alpha offers.

Whether you buy in to homebuilder-executive-... or not, the fact that this trend can be gleaned by simply reading all of their transcripts, which are free and easily accessible and don't take too long to read, is probably the most important part of this entire article!

All the best,

Judy]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:13:32 -0500
I'm neither long the homebuilders, nor trying to push up or down those stocks. I don't own, have not owned, nor am I short any of them. I am simply pointing out that the homebuilders mentioned above all noted an upturn in sales in January. I don't have the slightest clue as to whether this means the housing slump is turning or is just pausing for air before the industry slips further in to the doldrums.

The homebuilder executives themselves weren't certain. Pulte's, as mentioned above, doesn't see any improvement on the horizon, while Ryland's and Horton's were more positive on the general trend.

I once read an article on Seeking Alpha written by a housing analyst who said he was watching the conference calls of homebuilders. He said the moment they displayed any sort of positive data or noted any positive trends, then that would be the first indication of a turn in the market for him. I, of course, don't have any idea if that is true, but for those that do subscribe to that theory, then here you have the first signs of a positive trend.

Many of the articles that I have read on housing point to further declines ahead, so I would say one month's sales would be pretty risky to use as a bottom indicator.

The point of this article, and conference call excerpts in general is to highlight how much information we can glean from the free conference call transcripts that Seeking Alpha offers.

Whether you buy in to homebuilder-executive-... or not, the fact that this trend can be gleaned by simply reading all of their transcripts, which are free and easily accessible and don't take too long to read, is probably the most important part of this entire article!

All the best,

Judy]]>