forbes.com
It was hard to deny the positive economic signs from Wednesday's housing and durable goods reports, which both beat expectations, and signaled somewhat of a redemption for the beaten down housing market.
February new homes sales jumped to 337,000 in February, a healthy step ahead of the 300,000 anticipated by Wall Street, giving further encouragement to economic optimists who have enjoyed a nice run of positive housing, and other economic data in the last week. Wednesday's sales data wasn't perfect though, as the median sales price fell to $200,900, from $206,800 in the previous month, and $245,300 in February of 2008.
