FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 07/20/23

2023-07-20 00:30:00 ET Summary After a blockbuster report for May where Housing Starts and Building Permits both surged, there was a bit of a reality check in June. While Building Permits were expected to come in at 1.50 million, the actual reading came in at 1.44 million represen...

2023-07-19 02:23:00 ET Summary Housing activity has been somewhat muted given a dearth of inventories, but the lack of available existing supply has been positive for homebuilders. Although homebuilder sentiment has been rebounding solidly, it pales in comparison to the strength o...

2023-07-18 20:52:00 ET Summary With interest rates much higher than last year, investors have a new perspective on cap rates for CRE, which generally are at a spread, or premium, to underlying interest or risk-free rates. Various US institutional office owners have sold assets at ...

Score A Better Future Fundamentals program partners with U.S. Soccer Foundation and Chelsea Football Club to hold workshops teaching students how to take control of their financial futures Highlights: This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://...

2023-07-16 05:30:00 ET Summary Obviously, AI has supercharged the indexes, for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. Small businesses tend to feel the impact of monetary tightening with a lag compared to larger companies. The Fed, although they haven’t come out and said it, t...

2023-07-15 12:00:00 ET REITs gained ahead of the earnings season on the back of estimated solid quarterly results, despite an uptick in inflation expectations. Recent reports were favorable towards the sector, which also pulled up sentiments. M&A activities had picked up in ...

The Score A Better Future workshop is FICO’s first stop of the ‘Fields of Financial Empowerment’ tour with Chelsea Football Club Global analytics firm, FICO (NYSE:FICO), will host a free Score A Better Future credit education event on July 19, 2023 to provide Ch...

Latest patents demonstrate innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology used to hyper-personalize customer experiences FICO (NYSE: FICO): Highlights: FICO continues to drive unique industry specific innovation in machine learning and technolog...

2023-07-13 00:52:00 ET Summary The bond market offers potential for equity-like returns with less volatility and downside risk compared to the stock market, making it valuable for building resilient portfolios. We expect to see policy tightening and bank challenges begin to impact...

2023-07-12 10:00:00 ET Summary One of the hottest "inflation hedges" during the pandemic, land REITs have fallen out-of-favor as rising rates and normalizing supply chains have created disinflationary - and even deflationary - headwinds for commodities. While services sector infla...