ITB News and Press, iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF From 07/22/19

Real Estate Weekly Review A dynamic that surely further enrages critics of the Federal Reserve and the immense power of a small group of economists over investment markets, US equity markets gyrated this week on every utterance of Fed members in a series of speeches ahead of the most clos...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.81% for the week ending July 18, 2019, up from 3.75% in the prior week and vs. 4.52% at this time a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Markets Survey. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares...

Homebuilder sentiment for July saw a modest bounce, rising from 64 up to 65 compared to expectations for a reading of 64. While sentiment has seen a nice improvement from its late 2018 low, builders are nowhere near as optimistic right now as they were right before the GOP tax bill - which lim...

Real Estate Weekly Review Another week, another record high. Each of the three major US equity indexes climbed to new record highs on the week, with the S&P 500 ( SPY ) breaching 3,000 for the first time ever on a busy week of inflation data and Fed Chair Powell's testimony to Congress. ...

The investing insights below are from a recent discussion between Hedgeye Senior Macro analyst Darius Dale and Director of Research Daryl Jones with critical charts added for additional context. Dale and Jones discuss the sectors and style factors driving U.S. equities to all-time highs and ...

I wanted to revisit one graph, because I think it tells the story so well about what's happening in many US cities while lending standards are tight. In the process, I realized that I should have adjusted for inflation, and in the process of doing that, I realized I had a minor excel workshe...

At High Yield Landlord , we generally do not invest in ETFs. Instead, we seek to identify the most undervalued individual opportunities within the real estate space in an attempt to outperform the market and generate a high ~8% dividend yield. We are mindful however that active investing ...

REIT Rankings: Timber REITs In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We rank REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit ...

In my last review of the housing market , I compared and contrasted the prospects of the seasonal top in homebuilder stocks against the latest housing data and the market responses to earnings from Lennar ( LEN ) and KB Home ( KBH ). I concluded that the risks remained too high to break my r...

Real Estate Weekly Review On a week with no shortage of fireworks, financial markets were surprisingly tranquil on the final “jobs week” before the much-anticipated July Fed meeting. It would have taken some seriously high-powered fireworks in the employment figures to derail t...