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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, 29 Aug 2018 21:20:00 +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.
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.
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:28:00 +0000	Treasury Yield Surge Could Be a Foreign Affair After trading nearly a month in a tight band in the 2.80% range, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield broke out Monday, jumping 10.8 basis points, to 2.955% in early afternoon trading. (A basis point is ...
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.
Wed, 30 May 2018 21:49:57 +0000	Consider REIT ETFs as Rates Rise? Yield hunters typically dump real estate investment trusts and sector-related exchange traded funds when interest rates rise, but REITs may do well in a growing economic environment that is also comes ...
Wed, 30 May 2018 19:25:02 +0000	Will the Rollback of Dodd-Frank Help the Real Estate Sector? In a continued effort to deregulate the economy, President Donald Trump signed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act on March 24. This new act provides some tweaks to the Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in 2010 in response to the 2008 financial crisis. The new legislation is skewed toward helping community banks, which would benefit from the reduced capital requirements and regulatory costs.
Wed, 30 May 2018 16:21:46 +0000	Why the Recent REIT Rebound Could Stretch a Little Further The real estate sector (VNQ) has been lagging in performance in 2018. The reason for this decline has been the increase in interest rates and expectations of a higher interest rate in the future, which could dent demand in the real estate sector. The performance of the real estate sector has been a roller-coaster ride as interest rate expectations have continued to change with every incoming piece of data over the last few months.
Wed, 30 May 2018 13:01:14 +0000	Why Existing Home Sales Continued Their Decline in April The US National Association of Realtors (or NAR) releases a monthly report on the existing home sales (ITB) market. This report contains the trends in existing housing inventory, total housing inventory, median home prices, and mortgage rates. The changes to existing home sales data over a period help investors understand the trends in the secondary housing market (REM).
Fri, 18 May 2018 19:22:38 +0000	3 REIT ETFs Could Step Out of Their YTD Slump Real estate investment trusts and sector-related REIT ETFs have been stuck in a rut, but things could change as more traders are looking into the space. Year-to-date, the Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) fell 7.9%, iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate Index Fund (IYR) dropped 6.3% and Schwab US REIT ETF (SCHH) declined 6.8%. Analysts argued that expectations of a moderate slowdown rather than a hard landing are drawing some investors back, albeit cautiously, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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