NAIL News and Press, Direxion Daily Homebuilders & Supplies Bull 3X Shares

2024-07-17 15:10:00 ET Summary On a month/month basis, housing starts increased by 3%. Single-family units were down 2.2% and fell below the million annualized run rate. Housing starts are trending lower and housing stocks have reversed a steady downtrend in the last few tradi...

2024-07-17 04:35:00 ET Summary The US economy is still growing (positive GDP) but growth has slowed and signs of weakness are apparent. This should not be a surprise: the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by about 5.5% between Spring of 2022 and Summer of 2023 in an attempt to slo...

2024-07-17 03:40:00 ET Summary While stocks of large US companies have done well over the last few years, stocks of small US companies are negative. Year-to-date, the cap-weighted S&P 500 has returned 3 times the return of the S&P 500 Equal-Weight. Although the S&P...

2024-07-16 14:20:00 ET Summary In taking a deeper dive into the existing home sales report for May, I noticed that the distribution of sales across the six price “buckets” shows a different story than the headline number broken out by sales region. Recent reports ind...

2024-07-16 09:10:00 ET Summary The affordability of new homes sold in the United States was little changed in May 2024. With the mortgage payment for the typical new home sold consuming 43% of the income earned by a household in the exact middle of the distribution of income in th...

2024-07-14 12:28:05 ET Summary Direxion Daily Homebuilders & Supplies Bull 3X Shares ETF has substantially underperformed the SPY ETF in 2024. The ETF is heavily concentrated, with the top 10 positions accounting for 66.2% of net assets. These 10 holdings offer a forward P...

2024-07-11 12:22:19 ET More related to mortgages Mortgage applications fall even as purchase activity rises on lower refinancing demand Home prices relentlessly climb to new heights despite elevated mortgage rates: Redfin U.S. job growth edges down in June, unemploym...

2024-07-09 06:25:00 ET Summary As reported by ZeroHedge recently, the NAR U.S. Pending Home Sales Index dropped 2.1% MoM in May, down 6.6% YoY. The position of new home buyers in 2024 is unprecedented. Since January 2021, the average 30-year fixed rate has increased by 4.21%. ...

2024-07-07 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets climbed to fresh record-highs during the Independence Day week, while interest rates fell sharply after a critical slate of employment data showed evidence of cooling labor markets. Traders monitored the continued fallout from the...

2024-07-03 12:27:45 ET More on mortgages: Mortgage applications down by 2.6%, rates bounce back up May construction spending data weighs on home improvement category New homes sales unexpectedly sink 11% in May, median sales price slips Long-term mortgage rat...