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Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on November 27, 2019. This commentary follows the data presented in ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot: November 2019 . The end of the "Series A" ETRACS 2x ETNs? In a nutshell, all Series A ETNs are either goi...

Things are looking up for new homebuilders in the U.S. at the end of 2019, marking a strong contrast with how 2018 ended. Home builders are closing out 2019 more optimistic than they've been in decades. The National Association of Home Builders' monthly confidence index increased f...

The first reports in December are in, and both were negative. Let's start with construction spending. Overall construction spending declined -0.8% in October. The more leading residential construction spending declined -0.9%, the second decline in a row (blue in the graph below): Figure 1...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook The final "jobs week" of the decade did not disappoint. A stellar non-farm payrolls report on Friday lifted US equity markets to another week of gains and fresh record weekly closing highs on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. Back-and-forth trade headlines dictated...

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Lumber is a critical industrial commodity. Like crude oil, natural gas, copper and other base metals, and ferrous metals, wood is a building block of infrastructure and essential construction material. Just because the lumber futures market is not as liquid as many other industrial raw materia...

The Canadian real estate industry has been one of the hottest sectors on the TSX this year. James Hunter, Global Infrastructure Analyst, TD Asset Management, explains why the market has done so well. Original Read more ...

REIT Rankings: Net Lease 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 ...

By Jill Mislinski Wednesday morning the National Association of Realtors released the September data for their Pending Home Sales Index. Here is an excerpt from the latest press release: Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist, noted the decline in inventory and a small rise in mortgage rat...

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,...