FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 06/21/23

2023-06-21 12:18:00 ET Summary We see the best opportunities in originating new loans and purchasing existing loans, adopting a broad approach to debt and targeting stressed assets in turbulent markets. In our view, investors should take advantage of opportunities in private credi...

2023-06-20 22:45:00 ET Summary As inflation begins to moderate, Olga and Hugo examine the structural forces shaping the medium-term outlook in four categories: energy, housing, goods, and services. They uncover dynamics that challenge conventional wisdom about post-COVID shifts in...

2023-06-20 21:35:00 ET Summary Seasonally, May is one of the best month for construction starts of single-family houses and multi-family buildings. Today, the Census Bureau released the May constructions starts, and they were a blowout. The share of single-family housing start...

2023-06-19 22:20:00 ET Summary The Russell 1000 and the S&P 500, the two main broad US large-cap indexes, are both up about 15% this year. But the growth and value versions of these two indexes have produced very different results. The dollar was down last week, presumably on ...

2023-06-18 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets climbed for a fifth-straight week after inflation data showed a continued cooldown in price pressures, allowing the central bank to pause its historically-aggressive rate hiking cycle. Notching its longest weekly winning streak si...

2023-06-16 21:10:00 ET Summary No one could have possibly been surprised by the Fed’s lack of action on Wednesday. They had signaled to anyone who would listen that they would pause. The official inflation figures have indeed moderated over the last year. As far as I ca...

2023-06-15 10:00:00 ET Summary Left for dead in late 2022 on expectations of a "hard landing" across rental markets, Apartment REITs are the third-best-performing property sector this year, lifted by surprisingly buoyant property-level fundamentals. Recent industry data has shown ...

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2023-06-13 10:50:00 ET Summary Investors are celebrating what some say is a new bull market for the broad US equities market, but the party remains on ice for commercial property shares. The combination of rising interest rates and a surge in employees working from home is creatin...

2023-06-12 13:11:00 ET Summary The 10-year Treasury yield was modestly higher last week but the trend – or lack thereof – hasn’t changed. We look at sentiment in a lot of ways and there is no doubt that it is quite bullish right now so a correction of some kin...