REK News and Press, ProShares Short Real Estate From 11/02/22

Summary The global economy has been hit by several headwinds, almost all of them leading back to higher inflation. Europe is likely already in recession, the U.S. will enter recession in Q2 2023, while China struggles to make recovery headway. Markets have faced up to the reality ...

Summary Employment for nonresidential construction is up, for both actual building activity as well as specialty trades. Warehouses have been particularly strong thanks to increased online sales. Manufacturing construction has grown substantially in the past year, up 22%. ...

Summary Healthcare REITs have lagged over the past quarter as sharply higher labor costs, a sluggish post-COVID recovery in patient volumes, and the waning of government fiscal support have pressured operators. Hospital operators have been slammed particularly hard as elective sur...

Summary Stocks started the week waiting with bated (baited?) breath for the inflation reports of the week. It isn’t surprising that the market is focused firmly on the rearview mirror for clues about the future since Jerome Powell has made it plain that is his plan. Sto...

Summary REITs are trading at the lowest valuation in years. Yet, few seem to be buying them due to fears of rising rates. We think that the fears are unwarranted and explain why that is. Every crisis we have is always the worst crisis we've ever had. If you have ...

Summary U.S. equity markets dipped to two-year lows on another volatile week as a disappointing slate of inflation data suggested that the potential window for an economic "soft-landing" may be narrowing. Declining in seven of the past nine weeks and finishing on the cusp of the l...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Source: Shutterstock In 2007, Michael Burry — the then-head of Scion Capital — did something unthinkable: he shorted the real estate market. As the housing market inevitably collapsed, Burry and a handfu...

Summary Self-Storage REITs have defied expectations to the upside as comprehensively as any real estate sector since the start of the pandemic, delivering earnings growth of over 50% since 2019. Incremental storage demand is driven by change- particularly home moving rates and hou...

Summary DRV is an ETF providing leveraged inverse risk exposure to US real estate. Restrictive monetary policy is starting to impact the super rate sensitive property market. While property price stickiness does exist, signs of a property slowdown are at the fore. This bod...

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...