FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 01/06/24

2024-01-06 12:00:59 ET More on REITs: Real Estate: Our Top Sector Pick For 2024 XLRE: Better Positioned Than VNQ For A REIT Recovery (Rating Upgrade) Jobs Market Cools In October, Rate Cuts On The Horizon, XLRE A Buy REITs said to have ended December 2023 on ...

2024-01-04 14:32:13 ET More related to REITs: Real Estate: Our Top Sector Pick For 2024 XLRE: Better Positioned Than VNQ For A REIT Recovery (Rating Upgrade) Jobs Market Cools In October, Rate Cuts On The Horizon, XLRE A Buy BlackRock: Full impact of higher m...

2024-01-04 00:55:00 ET Summary U.S. home prices hit record highs in 2023, as a lack of supply outstripped any dent to demand that higher mortgage prices might have caused. The Fed may be done hiking rates, but is unlikely to aggressively cut rates in 2024, in part because of shelt...

2024-01-01 13:32:00 ET More on Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF XLRE: Better Positioned Than VNQ For A REIT Recovery (Rating Upgrade) Jobs Market Cools In October, Rate Cuts On The Horizon, XLRE A Buy Pending home sales in December post smallest drop since March 20...

2023-12-31 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets extended a spirited year-end rally with a ninth-straight week of gains - concluding a once-gloomy year with record-highs across the major benchmarks. The dramatic shift in fortunes beginning in late October coincided with a slate ...

2023-12-31 08:10:00 ET Summary Mortgage rates have dropped, but not enough to stimulate a surge in home buying. Pending home sales remain at historic lows, indicating a frozen market. Purchase mortgage applications are significantly down compared to previous years, suggesting ...

2023-12-28 06:30:00 ET Summary The markets have been so fixated on forecasting a recession and ensuing rate cuts that they have ignored an abundance of data pointing to the early stages of a manufacturing-led expansion. It appears the market may have been mispriced amid the Federa...

2023-12-27 06:20:00 ET Summary S&P 500 Equal Weight Index has reached new 52-week highs. Based on the market action, seeing small caps and financial stocks rally dramatically says the market does not anticipate a recession in 2024. The shortage of houses causes housing pri...

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2023-12-20 07:04:00 ET Summary Construction starts of single-family houses in November rose by 6.6% from the prior month, to 86,100 starts not seasonally adjusted, when normally in November, construction starts drop. Construction starts of multifamily housing units in buildings wi...