FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 04/04/23

2023-04-04 02:30:00 ET Summary Markets are liquidity junkies and repeatedly anticipate that central banks will pause and return to easing credit conditions. Equities historically don’t bottom until after a recession is recognized and central banks near the end of easing eff...

New FICO patents are focused on operationalizing AI, digital decisioning, and blockchain model governance; patented technologies are part of FICO® Platform and other solutions FICO (NYSE: FICO): Highlights: FICO has been awarded 12 patents in AI, digital decisions, an...

2023-04-03 06:52:27 ET Summary Skyrocketing inflation has led to sharply higher interest rates. Higher rates have important implications for investment markets and securities. A look as to how higher rates impact real estate, REITs, and VNQ follows. Skyrocketing infl...

2023-04-02 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets concluded a wild first-quarter with their best week of 2023 as easing contagion concerns and further evidence of cooling price pressures lifted markets to a third-straight weekly gain. Pushing its gains to 7.5% for the quarter, th...

2023-03-31 03:00:00 ET Summary The world would be a lot easier for central bankers if things moved in a straight line. China has opened much more or has reopened much more rapidly than we would’ve expected. We’re pretty optimistic about what we think fixed-income...

2023-03-31 02:30:00 ET Summary Given the atypical nature of this economic cycle, we expect the eventual constraints on employment from tighter financial conditions to be even further delayed. The uncertain timing around the impact on employment has been compounded by an extremely ...

2023-03-30 02:30:00 ET Summary If homeowners want to sell their home and buy a bigger or a smaller home, or a home in a different location, they would have to change from a 3% mortgage to a 6.5% mortgage. So they’re not selling, and they’re not buying - they’v...

2023-03-29 13:25:00 ET Summary The economy continued to grow in March, with inflation still unacceptably high, and the Federal Reserve tightening further. A solid job market is the most important factor for consumer spending. Despite this, February retail sales dipped by 0.4 perce...

2023-03-29 10:40:00 ET Summary The apartment sector remains among the strongest within commercial real estate. Despite an overall pause in sales activity and availability of debt capital affecting all property sectors, investor interest and liquidity has remained strong on a relative ...

2023-03-29 01:53:00 ET Summary The complexity of the U.S. housing market continues to yield headwinds and tailwinds for lumber into 2023. Despite extraordinary prices and demand since the onset of the pandemic, Canadian lumber exports have yet to return to pre-recession levels. ...