OLD News and Press, The Long-Term Care ETF From 12/22/21

The real estate market has done well this year as supply shortfalls and a demand surge sparked sharply higher prices. As with most industries, the pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions have caused a variety of issues in the construction industry, in ways that may leave a long-last...

Total housing starts rose to a 1.679 million annual rate in November from a 1.502 million pace in October, an 11.8 percent increase. Starts of multifamily structures with five or more units increased 12.1 percent to 491,000 and are up a robust 39.1 percent over the past year while sta...

Strong demand for U.S. housing has been a key contributor to mortgage credit outperformance since early in the pandemic. Can housing markets continue to shine in 2022? We believe strong housing markets are likely to persist into 2022 with prices again rising as much as 10% nationally....

After a difficult 2020, real estate stocks powered back in 2021. The many changes in business and consumer behavior triggered by the pandemic are affecting real estate. Investors should actively target real estate businesses with strong fundamentals while monitoring the knock-on e...

Historically, viruses tend to mutate and become less deadly over time. Consumers are buying again, so I still expect this holiday shopping season to set all-time records. The good news was that the October and September payroll reports were revised up to 546,000 and 379,000. ...

The US rebound from the Q3 slowdown is in full bloom. The economy certainly looks like it is on solid ground right now. So, why in the world are bonds rallying? The 10-year Treasury yield fell 10 basis points on Friday after the payroll report. The movements in bond markets today ...

October 2021 saw the median new home sale price in the United States rise to a record 5.56 times the median household income. 30-year conventional mortgage rates rose in October 2021. At an average 3.07% during the month, they are nearly 0.4% higher than their record low from December...

The National Association of Realtors released the October data for their Pending Home Sales Index. The MoM came in at 7.5%, up from a 2.4% decrease last month. Investing.com had forecast an increase of 0.9%. For further details see: Pending Home Sales Jump In October

The market for new homes in the U.S. has shrunk in both real and nominal terms. The annualized number of new homes being sold in the U.S. has nearly dropped to levels last seen in December 2019. The shrinking new home market represents a source of headwinds for the U.S. economy in...

New Covid-19 variant from South Africa caused an emergency meeting of WHO that spooked the financial markets on “Black Friday,” putting a damper on the biggest retail sales day of the calendar year. The good news is that even though the ETF spread widened for DVY on Frid...