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Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:30:07 +0000	Real Estate ETFs at One-Month High: Here's Why What led a flurry of real estate ETFs to a one-month high?
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:40:25 +0000	Real Estate Sector ETFs Could Struggle in November Real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the related exchange traded funds, including the iShares US Real Estate ETF (IYR) , are viewed as vulnerable to rising interest rates. The Federal Reserve has boosted rates three times this year and a fourth rate hike is widely expected in December, but some real estate ETFs have been surprisingly solid in recent weeks. IYR is up more than 1% over the past week, but historical data suggest investors may not want to be holding that fund when November arrives.
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:33:00 +0000	Rising Treasury Yields Stoke Outflows From These ETFs Ten-year Treasury yields pulled back a bit Thursday, but yields on benchmark government debt hover above 3.10 percent and are up nearly 17 percent year to date, enough to spark a wave of recent outflows from some well-known exchange traded funds (ETFs) spanning multiple asset classes.
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000	The 5 Best Real Estate REIT ETFs of 2018 In a period of low interest rates, real estate investment trusts (REITs) – a securitized portfolio of properties – offer the great income potential of real estate combined with the liquidity of stocks.
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:56:58 +0000	Rising Rates Chase Investors From Big Real Estate ETF On a historical basis, real estate stocks and the related exchange traded funds are inversely correlated to rising interest rates. IYR, one of the largest ETFs focusing on real estate investment trusts (REITs), is down more than 4% over the past month, a period that includes the Federal Reserve's third interest rate hike of 2018.
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:07:48 +0000	3 Real Estate ETFs Defying Rising Rates The housing market is already feeling the pangs of rising interest rates crimping homebuyer enthusiasm to take on financing to purchase real estate, but these three ETFs are defying the wave of rate hikes ...
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 20:29:00 +0000	Stocks Mixed As Dow Jones Leads, And The Insane Figures In Tilray Trading The major stock indexes closed mixed Wednesday, with the Nasdaq dropping while the Dow Jones industrial average led the market.
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:30:26 +0000	Why American Tower Remains Analysts’ Favorite American Tower’s (AMT) back-to-back quarters of upbeat performance have instilled confidence in analysts, which we can see reflected in their ratings. Most analysts remain bullish on the stock with “buy” recommendations. Seven of the 22 analysts covering American Tower have given it “strong buy” ratings, ten have given it “buy” ratings, and the remaining five have given it “hold” ratings.
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:30:57 +0000	How American Tower’s Valuation Stacks Up against Its Peers’ The price-to-AFFO (price-to-adjusted funds from operations) ratio is considered to be the best multiple for measuring a REIT and finding out where it’s undervalued or overvalued compared to its peers. The ratio’s implications are similar to the implications of the PE ratio.
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:33:13 +0000	Crown Castle Maintains Its Shareholder Wealth Enhancement Policy Crown Castle (CCI) has always aimed to enhance shareholders’ wealth. In doing so, it converted into a REIT on January 1, 2014, distributing 90% of its earnings through dividend payments. The REIT status provides tax savings to cell-tower owners and operators, thereby leaving more funds to distribute to shareholders.
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:59:42 +0000	Southern California Home Sales Dip to Four-Year Low Contributing to the lackluster sales was less supply provided by homebuilders--as such, the sales of newly built homes was 47 percent below the June average. “A portion of last month’s year-over-year sales decline reflects one less business day for deals to be recorded compared with June 2017,” said CoreLogic analyst Andrew LePage. Higher rates equal to higher mortgage payments for a Southern California real estate market that is already pricing out would-be homebuyers.
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:25:02 +0000	Current Economic Tailwinds Are Powering Real Assets As the headwinds are likely to continue to dissipate, the potential benefits of real asset investing are coming into clearer focus. Notably, an allocation to real assets can be used to help investors enhance portfolio diversification, gain exposure to global growth, and hedge against the impact of inflation. As the current environment progresses, it is a good time to consider the impact of inflation and an allocation to real assets.
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:55:02 +0000	Shifting Economic Winds Could Be Good for Real Assets Inflation is something that has not been seen in well over a decade, but the ingredients are there: a strong U.S. economy, unemployment at historic lows, and the recent stimuli of tax reform, deregulation, and government spending, which may not even have fully taken hold yet. Plus, recent indications from the Fed continue to indicate a potentially more aggressive approach to tightening. In developed countries, inflation had languished below the central bank’s target level for many years.
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:21:42 +0000	Real Asset Companies Are on the Cusp of an Earnings Revival Meanwhile, although it may be slowing, global growth has improved over the short-term, and despite some uncertainty around tariffs and global trade, supply/demand dynamics across many commodities are back in balance and look to become even more favorable in the near future. Plus, companies across many of the primary industries associated with real assets are now in improved financial and operational shape after several years of restructuring to reduce capital expenditure and improve overall efficiency. The IMF (International Monetary Fund) expects the global economy to register a growth of 3.9% in 2018 and 3.9% in 2019.
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:25:36 +0000	Look to REITs ETFs to Enhance Yield Generation Real estate investment trusts and sector-related REIT ETFs have rebounded since the February correction, but investors may have overlooked this segment of the market. REITs are an effective, liquid and low-cost means of investing in the real estate asset class, and it is now the third largest asset class in the U.S., with commercial real estate accounting for 17% of the U.S. investment market, according to Nareit. Around 80% of investment advisors now recommend REITs to their clients, compared to 73% of surveyed advisors who recommended REIT exposure to clients in 2016.
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:55:00 +0000	Technical Traders Shift Focus to Real Estate The real estate sector is regarded as a staple for any serious income investor, and it also happens to be a favorite of active traders because of its relatively predictable cyclical nature. In this article, we take a look at several charts that traders use to track the real estate sector and see how they will likely look to position themselves over the weeks or months to come. Retail traders who are interested in tracking the performance of a specific sector often turn to exchange-traded products such as the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF.
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:02:30 +0000	Why Existing Home Sales Have Been on a Continuous Slide The United States National Association of Realtors (or NAR) releases a monthly report on the existing home sales (ITB) market. Trends in existing housing inventory, total housing inventory, median home prices, and the mortgage rates are released through this report. Investors can assess the appetite of home buyers in the secondary housing market (REM) through this report.

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