Guru Face-Off: Home Builders - 2004-02-20
Since last March, the Philadelphia Housing Index is 85% higher. This basket of 21 stocks--mostly home builders--climbed 50% in the three months before the Federal Reserve last decided to cut the federal funds rate in June.

But after such an extended run fueled in no small part by rock-bottom mortgage rates, most market watchers say that it's time for this sector to cool off and that past gains are not sustainable.
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Investors in Nevada Mortgage Brokerage Fund Fight Court's Decision - 2004-02-20
A group of investors in a mortgage brokerage fund that the government seized and treated as a $48 million "Ponzi-like investment scheme" is challenging a federal court decision to appoint a receiver.

The dispute stems from an injunction that the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained in December, freezing the assets of Global Express Capital Real Estate Investment Fund and related businesses.
Read the full story at Miami Herald