FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 01/20/24

2024-01-20 12:00:00 ET More on REITs: Residential Real Estate Cycle Analytics Suggests REIT Prices Likely Rebound Till 2024 Q3 Sell MORT, Buy These ETFs Instead ICF: Office And Retail Create Some Concern BofA reports inflows in stocks and outflows from ETFs l...

2024-01-19 02:05:00 ET Summary Construction starts of single-family houses and units in multifamily buildings (condos and apartments), fell by 9% in 2023. Mortgage rates started rising in late 2021 and surged in 2022 and 2023, and the entire math changed. Despite two years of ...

2024-01-19 01:00:00 ET Summary The commercial real estate sector has been under intense pressure globally as interest rates have risen over the past couple of years. In the US, with the largest commercial property market in the world, prices have tumbled by 11 percent since the Fe...

2024-01-17 15:00:00 ET Summary The biggest surprise of the past two years has been a 500-plus basis point increase in interest rates without a recession. Pockets of traditional commercial real estate are facing significant uncertainty, particularly older office buildings, which ha...

2024-01-17 11:00:00 ET Summary Self-Storage REITs delivered incredible growth early in the pandemic driven by surging housing market activity, but have been victims to their own success of late amid a supply-driven cooldown. Robust double-digit rent growth and relatively low opera...

FICO (NYSE:FICO), a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, will announce its first quarter fiscal 2024 results on January 25, 2024, after the market closes and will host a conference call on January 25 th at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (4:00 p.m. Central/ 2:00 p.m. ...

2024-01-16 04:50:00 ET Summary Why US banks could be poised for a rebound? Sectors primed for a pivot if the Fed cuts. The outlook for healthcare and real estate. The potential for interest rate cuts this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve is raising the outlook for ...

2024-01-14 11:32:29 ET Summary The REIT sector closed the year out strong with a +11.40% total return in December, pushing into positive territory for the full year (+8.66%). Small cap REITs (+13.39%) outperformed in December. Large cap REITs (+9.55%) averaged a lower return than ...

2024-01-14 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets resumed their rally this week, while interest rates fell sharply after a critical slate of inflation data pointed towards a continuing "normalization" of inflation towards pre-pandemic levels. While CPI data was best characterized...

2024-01-12 02:25:00 ET Summary Prospective home buyers face high prices and elevated borrowing costs, while homeowners refrain from listing their properties. As global central banks raised interest rates to tame inflation, home prices have cooled relative to the start of the hikin...