PKB News and Press, Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction From 08/24/23

2023-08-24 02:45:00 ET Summary As an active investment manager, we are constantly monitoring and re-evaluating our holdings to make sure that they continue to track our investment strategies. The technology sector has been dominating this year, in fact it was the driver behind the...

2023-08-23 21:05:00 ET Summary A rising Yield Curve is what we are seeing today. The turn higher began after hitting what appears to be the low point,-1.89%, on May 4, 2023. Consensus opinion is that investing is all about calling the bottom in the S&P 500 or some other asset ...

2023-08-22 15:24:00 ET Summary Today’s home affordability is the lowest on record, thanks to elevated prices and the highest mortgage rates in 23 years. The combination of sky-high prices and historically average interest rates puts the median Canadian home price some 32% a...

2023-08-22 05:30:00 ET Summary Chairman Powell keeps reassuring us that the Fed is "data-dependent," but what do they do if some data is unclear or even flawed? There is a conflict between the ADP jobs data and the Labor Department's "seasonally adjusted" jobs data. In recent mont...

2023-08-18 23:45:00 ET Summary Activity in residential real estate has stagnated, but prices are holding up better than expected due to low inventories and a lack of forced sellers. Commercial real estate, on the other hand, looks to be in a very different situation with excess in...

2023-08-17 01:25:00 ET Summary The latest reads on Housing Starts and Building Permits for the month of June were released on August 16th and showed mixed results relative to expectations. For both starts and permits, single-family was stronger than multi on both an m/m and y/y ba...

2023-08-16 23:29:00 ET Summary Today's Mortgage Bankers Association data shows the average 30Y fixed rate mortgage agreed last week came in at 7.16%, matching the high hit on 21 October last year. The average mortgage taken out for a purchase last week was $417,200, which at 7.16%...

2023-08-16 00:30:00 ET Summary As the national average for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage eclipsed 7.5% recently, homebuilder sentiment has turned lower. The Housing Market Index from the NAHB fell to 50 in August from 56 the previous month. That six point drop month over month...

2023-08-10 15:23:24 ET Summary Nearly 200 U.S. REITs have reported second quarter earnings results over the past month, providing critical information on the state of the commercial and residential real estate industry. Of the 86 equity REITs that provide full-year Funds from Oper...

2023-08-09 21:30:00 ET Summary Mortgage applications to purchase a home: -40% from 2022 and 2019, 3rd worst week since 1995, behind only two weeks in February. The 7%+ mortgages are doing their magic on the housing market as they keep buyers out of the market, and home sales sagge...