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Posted Jun 26th 2009 2:30PM by James Cullen Filed under: Earnings reports , KB HOME Shares in homebuilder KB Home dropped more than 8% as of mid-day Friday following the company's earnings release.

B Home, the Los Angeles-based homebuilder that targets first-time buyers, reported a narrower second-quarter loss as the company cut expenses faster than revenue dropped.

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KB Home, the Los Angeles-based home builder, reported revenues of $384.5 million for its second quarter of 2009, a 40% decline from $639.1 million in the year-earlier quarter.

Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading this morning.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, facing trial on charges he swindled investors out of $7 billion, will spend at least the weekend behind bars after a federal judge Friday ruled to delay his release on bail.

KB Home on Friday reported a lower loss in the second quarter but it was worse than expected.

KB Home , one of America's largest homebuilders, reported Q2 financial results .

Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 11:45 a.m. in New York.

KB Home , the Los Angeles-based home builder that caters to first-time buyers, fell 9.1 percent after reporting a wider quarterly loss than analysts expected.

Fri, Jun 26, 2009 Two homebuilders active in Las Vegas offered good-news, bad-news scenarios in their second-quarter financial reports.

KB Home F2Q09 Earnings Call June 26, 2009 11:30 pm ET Executives Jeffrey T. MezgerA - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director William R. Hollinger - Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer Kelly K. Masuda - Senior Vice President, Treasurer Analysts Steven East - Pali Capital Ivy Zelman - Zelman & Associates Daniel Oppenheim - Credit ...

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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: KB Home, down $1.35 at $13.42 The homebuilder reported a big jump in new house orders from the previous quarter, but posted a bigger loss than analysts had expected.

Despite losing $78.4 million, or $1.03 a share in its second quarter, KB Home appears cautiously optimistic about its future.