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How things have changed. The luxury-home builder now expects to take a second-quarter charge of $90 million to $130 million to account for falling home values across the country.

“You could generalize that earnings visibility is low for Toll Bros. for the next few quarters and for the homebuilder group also,” says Standard & Poor’s Equity analyst Tom Smith. “The write-down [$90 million to $130 million] was ahead of my estimates. But you never know what that amount is until the accountant comes back with it.”

Smith lowered his price target on Toll Bros. to $33 from $36 after preliminary earnings were announced and maintained a “hold” rating on the stock. But it would be lying to say these results were unexpected. Toll Bros. shares were down barely 1% on Wednesday afternoon. “A lot of this bad news is built in [to the stock],” Smith says.

Coincidentally, the National Association of Realtors reported May 8 that home prices would decline nationwide in 2007. After stating in January that prices would edge up slightly over the year, the group now expects the national median home price to decline 1% in 2007 to $219,800, marking the first ever year-over-year decline in prices since they began tracking them in 1968.

After a rocky session, the Dow Jones industrial average pushed to a new record after the Federal Reserve announced that they kept the federal funds rate at 5.25% and remains worried about inflation. Investors liked the message: expect more of the same steady rates for the time being while the economy remains in a Goldilocks mode.

“The market finally realized that the Fed won’t raise rates or cut rates anytime soon,” says Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Avalon Partners in New York. “That left the market to focus on deals and M&A.”

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 53.8 points, or 0.4%, to a new record close of 13,362.87. The broader S&P 500 index was up 4.86 points, or 0.32%, to 1,512.58. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index added 4.59 points, or 0.18%, to 2,576.34.

In its statement, the FOMC reiterated that the “predominant policy concern” remains inflation failing to moderate as expected. But it subtly fine-tuned its economic view from “mixed” to “slowed” from March, says Action Economics.

“For now, this statement positions the Fed to remain on hold for several meetings,” says John Ryding at Bear Stearns. He thinks that core inflation will gradually rise and end the year at 2.5% on core PCE price inflation, prompting the Fed to adjust rates modestly higher. He sees the funds rate at 5.50% by yearend and 5.75% by the middle of 2008.

After the market’s strong run in recent weeks, driven by better-than-expected earnings guidance, Cardillo at Avalon Partners thinks the market is overbought and due for a pullback as summer approaches — typically a slower season for the markets. Still, investors will look for individual names that are associated with M&A and deals.

Among stocks moving on deal talk on Wednesday, Rio Tinto PLC ADS (RTP) shares surged 12% on speculation that BHP Billiton (BHP) approached Rio Tinto about a takeover.

Alltel (AT) rose 2% after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company is drawing interest from at least three private-equity buyout groups. The wireless firm has a market cap of $22.7 billion.

The Nasdaq lagged the broader market due to weakness in Cisco Systems (CSCO) after the company reported fiscal third quarter EPS of 30¢ a share, up from 22¢ a share a year ago, on a 21% sales rise. But that was below some analysts’ estimates and the “whisper number” of 36¢ from WhisperNumber.com that traders hope for. The networking gear maker reportedly sees fourth-quarter sales of $9.2 billion to $9.3 billion — slightly lower than analysts’ forecast. The shares were down about 6%.

Disney (DIS) shares were also lower after it reported better-than-expected EPS, but its revenue missed forecasts for its second quarter.

Toll Brothers (TOL) posted 19% lower second-quarter home building revenues, 32% lower second-quarter-ending backlog, and 25% lower net signed contracts. It sees $90-$130 million in second-quarter writedowns. The home builder no longer expects to achieve its most recent quarterly and annual guidance.

Priceline.com (PCLN) reported first-quarter EPS of 43¢, vs. 19¢ a year ago (pro forma), on an 18% revenue rise. It sees 80¢ to 90¢ second-quarter EPS. The company says lower margins on retail airline tickets and higher return hurdles it imposed on marketing investments will hurt its airline ticket business.

In the energy markets, June NYMEX crude oil was down 66¢ to $61.60 a barrel. A larger-than-expected build in crude stocks weighed on prices, as did the first increase in gasoline supplies in three months, says Action Economics. Losses were ultimately pared however, as attacks continued in Nigeria, while the market was reminded of the hurricane season, as the first named subtropical storm of the season churned off the Southeast U.S. coast, says Action Economics.

European stock markets finished mostly higher. In London, the FTSE 100 index barely budged at 6,549.6. Germany’s DAX index was up 0.45%, to 7,475.99. In Paris, the CAC 40 index added 0.29%, to 6,051.63.

Asian markets moved up. In Japan, the Nikkei index was up 0.52%, to 17,748.12. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index rose 0.67%, to 20,844.78.

Treasury Market

Treasury yields bounced higher after the Fed kept its bias against inflation in its statement, driving the 10-year note up 3 basis points to 4.668%. “Some in the bond market had apparently been holding out hope that the Fed could make a greater concession to slow growth and toward neutral policy, but that was unrealistic based on the intermeeting data,” says Action Economics.

From:www.businessweek.com

April job growth slowed from March’s heady pace, but data in the May 4 release of the government’s employment report did little more than negate the upside surprise last month. The figures will not likely sway the Federal Reserve from keeping rates steady at next week’s policy meeting.

For clarity on the labor market, we may have to wait a month. The May jobs figures will help to calibrate the pace of cooling for the nation’s job market, following the volatile weather gyrations of the first four months of 2007, and difficulties in seasonally adjusting for the early Easter.

The April report continues a see-saw pattern for the jobs data since late 2006 that raises the stakes for any downside surprises in the May report. Nonfarm payrolls rose 88,000 in April, following a downwardly revised 177,000 gain in March (from 180,000). February’s 113,000 increase was revised to 90,000, for a net revision of -26,000. The April gain marked the smallest monthly increase since November, 2004.

Construction Jobs Down

The unemployment rate edged up to 4.5% from the cycle low at 4.4%. Average hourly earnings rose a tame 0.2% after a 0.3% gain in March. On a year-over-year basis, earnings growth slowed to 3.8% from 4.0% in March, and is down from 4.2% in December. The workweek slipped to 33.8 hours from 33.9 hours.

A breakdown of jobs showed private payrolls were up 63,000, which is less than half of the March gain, with manufacturing falling an additional 19,000. Construction jobs were down 11,000 after the strong 50,000 gain in March that was boosted by unseasonably warm and dry weather. Service-producing sector jobs rose 116,000, with a 25,000 gain in government employment.

The report revealed weakness across the board, with a notable drop in the household jobs data that accompanied the shortfalls in payrolls, the workweek, and hourly earnings that reversed the report’s overshoots last month. The figures suggest a weak round of April data, but not necessarily lean second-quarter figures, given the strong close to the first quarter.

Holiday Distortions

We now assume a 0.2% personal income gain in April that will leave disposable income poised for a 5.1% second-quarter growth rate, following the bonus-boosted 8.0% clip in the first quarter. We now project a 0.2% industrial production gain in April that will leave this measure still poised for 2% to 3% growth in the second quarter, following the 1.4% rate of the first quarter. The 0.4% drop in the April hours-worked index still leaves room for growth in the second quarter that roughly matches the 1.1% first-quarter pace.

The lean 1.3% first-quarter gross domestic product figure in the advance report fell notably close to hours-worked growth in the first quarter, though we expect a bump in the advance GDP figure to 1.6%. The second-quarter hours-worked gain still implies GDP growth above 2%. The 11,000 drop in construction employment in April is consistent with our -0.2% forecast for the April construction spending report.

In total, widespread weakness in the April report provides an offset to widespread strength in the March figures, with gyrating weather effects and holiday distortions to the March and April seasonal factors probably explaining at least part of the two-month zig-zag. Indeed, with seasonal factors and holiday distortions likely to have little effect on the May data, this next report could provide the first “clean” reading for jobs growth in some time.

Waiting for the Fed

We think the Fed will show little net reaction to the jobs data at next week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, given that we received both the strong March and weak April jobs reports since the last FOMC meeting on Mar. 21. And most of the remaining macro data since late March have exceeded expectations. As such, we expect policymakers to leave the Fed funds target rate unchanged, at 5.25%, at the May meeting, with the same tilt in the balance of risk toward higher inflation.

But any surprises in the May jobs report could play a big role in the two days of FOMC deliberations in June, where the bias statement could be put on the table if payrolls come up short again.