REK News and Press, ProShares Short Real Estate From 10/10/22

Summary Over the last two weeks Federal Reserve officials delivered 37 speeches, all of the speakers competing to see who could be the most hawkish. The big problem with the Fed’s plan to kill inflation by reducing economic growth and raising the unemployment rate is that t...

Summary U.S. equity markets snapped a three-week skid in another choppy week after employment data showed signs of softening in labor markets - but not enough to alter the Fed's aggressive tightening path. Bouncing off its lowest levels in over two years, the S&P 500 advanced ...

Summary Hotel REITs have held up surprisingly well throughout the recent market turmoil and remain one of the top-performing property sectors this year following a solid summer of operating performance. Several years of pent-up leisure demand from COVID delays helped to offset a s...

Summary Today, you have a “once in a decade” chance to win big with REITs. REITs have dropped heavily despite enjoying strong fundamentals. Let others panic. REITs always recovered and richly reward those who bought them following market crashes. The st...

Summary YTD, the S&P 500 is now down 24% while bonds have their own double-digit losses. Like stock valuations, currency valuations aren’t great timing tools but over a 3-year period after becoming undervalued, the outperformance is strong. Consumer defensive stocks...

Summary The REIT crash is largely related to rapidly rising interest rates. Market pundits have a variety of theories suggesting REITs are susceptible to interest rates. We examine them to see which are true and which are bogus. I have long pondered the impact of ris...

Summary The ProShares UltraShort Real Estate ETF SRS uses derivatives to short the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index by a 2X factor. This article examines the underlying Index so investors know exactly what they are "selling" via SRS’s shorting strategy. As with most &#x...

Summary The main economic data release for the trading week is the US inflation report. The UK economy is in a precarious position and facing a recession. Chinese President Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in U...

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Summary While still outperforming the REIT Index this year, timber and farmland REITs have pulled back amid cooling inflation expectations, slumping global commodity demand, and regional weather complications. A hedge on chaos? Amid indications that the Russia-Ukraine conflict may...