Friday, May 11, 2007

`Chicken' Investors Buy Home Depot, Masco Shares Ahead of Housing Rebound

(Bloomberg) -- Investors who don't have the guts to buy housing stocks just yet are betting on a residential rebound before it happens -- by buying shares of home-improvement retailers and makers of tools and tape measures.

``It's our chicken way of playing the housing recovery,'' said Robert Hagstrom, manager of the $5 billion Legg Mason Growth Trust in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He bought Home Depot Inc. shares this year.


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