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Although they account for about 90% of the entire housing market, existing home sales are the least consequential to the economy. That's because building new homes entails a bunch of economic activity, from architects, builders, building trades contractors, landscapers in the building process,...

Yesterday's blog post focused on the strength of the consumer and the positive impact on the housing market. Also noted in that post was the consumer's improved financial position versus the end of the financial crisis and the current limited draw down of one's home equity. Then today, the U...

Late last week the National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales of 5.46 million units at an annual rate. This number was slightly below estimates, however, it was higher than the previous month and was 4.6% higher on a year-over-year basis. As the below chart shows, this rate ...

By Brian Phillips Black Friday is around the corner. Will US shoppers head to the mall? Or are malls out of fashion for good? The debate about the retail apocalypse is playing out in a single bond index. That index is the CMBX.6, which references 25 US commercial mortgage-backed securi...

REIT Rankings: Industrial In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze REITs within each of the commercial and residential sectors, focusing on property-level fundamentals and the macroeconomic forces driving overall supply and demand conditions. We then analyze REITs based on both common and...

Note : This article was initially released to members on October 23, 2019. The ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot presents the latest updates on the news, yields, performance and other data for the ETRACS 2x ETNs, an extremely popular suite of high-yielding vehicles for income investors. ...

UBS AG announced today that it expects to exercise its contractual call right to redeem in full 13 ETRACS Series A exchange traded notes, set forth in the following table, within a few months following the final expiration of UBS AG’s proposed exchange offers, which were announced ear...

Under MSCI's semi-annual index review, Blackstone Group ( BX +0.4% ), which converted to a corporation structure partly so it could be included in indexes, is being added to the MSCI World Index and the MSCI US Large Cap 300 Index. More news on: The Blackstone Group Inc., Match Group, ...

Speculative frenzies are all very well As long as we know we're in such a speculative frenzy, they're great fun and easy to make money in. Invest in whatever that speculation is and make sure, certain, that we're out before the bubble pops. The problem of course is that pop and cleaning up t...

After having held relatively steady in recent months, new home sale prices have resumed falling. The chart below shows the raw median and average new home sale prices reported by the U.S. Census Bureau since January 2000, where we have to go back to early January 2017 to find similarly low p...