Generally any kind of news can always be looked at in a positive or a negative way.

Currently we are in a regime where every news is bad. But please, somebody’s gotta help me out here: with housing inventory at record highs and weighing on the market, why exactly is a collapse in housing starts seen as a bad thing? Do you really want to add even more inventory to an already oversaturated market? Would the markets have risen today on news that housing starts doubled? Oh Lordy…