FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 05/17/23

FICO Platform remains the only solution to earn “leader” status in every Forrester Wave decisioning platform report since 2018 Highlights: FICO® Platform was again named one of the industry’s top decisioning platforms in “The Forrester Wave™...

With FICO® Platform, enterprises can achieve strategic business outcomes by improving the customer experience with hyper-personalization, and by dramatically improving success rates for enterprise transformation FICO World 23 – FICO (NYSE: FICO): Highlights: ...

2023-05-16 23:33:00 ET Summary The sharp rise in interest rates and macroeconomic uncertainty over the past year has given commercial real estate buyers pause and substantially slowed the pace of CRE transactions. With market conditions not forecast to change meaningfully anytime ...

2023-05-16 23:05:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve’s latest 0.25% interest rate hike has likely capped one of its most aggressive policy-tightening cycles in 40 years. Core inflation, which excludes the more volatile energy and food prices, remains historically high, but ha...

2023-05-16 19:30:00 ET Summary As we noted last week on the release of the latest mortgage purchase data, housing activity appears to have finally stabilized after plummeting earlier in the tightening cycle. That improvement in housing markets is flowing through to builders as thi...

2023-05-16 18:52:52 ET Summary The REIT sector declined for the 3rd month in a row with a -2.88% total return in April. Large-cap REITs (+1.35%) saw gains, while mid caps (-0.90%), small caps (-4.44%) and micro caps (-10.62%) all finished April in the red. 34.18% of REIT secur...

2023-05-16 11:45:00 ET Summary With increasing economic uncertainty and market volatility in the first quarter of 2023, the probability of a mild recession beginning in the second half of the year or early next continues to rise. Global supply chain disruptions stemming from the C...

FICO World 23 – FICO (NYSE: FICO): This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230516005287/en/ Chelsea Football Club today announced a new partnership with FICO, the world’s leading provider of analytics...

2023-05-16 02:35:00 ET Summary The current economic and investing environment remains one of the most challenging and difficult to navigate in recent times. With inflation and wage growth at current levels, we likely require a material amount of pain to be felt within the equity a...

2023-05-16 00:25:00 ET Summary Weakness in credit markets in the form of wider spreads and the primary market struggling begs the question of what is driving the recent weakness in credit markets. The answer to the question seems to be a combination of many smaller factors, includ...