REK News and Press, ProShares Short Real Estate From 01/10/23

Summary Manufactured Housing REITs snapped an incredible streak of nine straight years of outperformance over the REIT Index in 2022, impacted by headwinds from higher interest rates and hurricane-related disruptions. Despite their REIT-leading growth rates, Manufactured Housing ("MH") ...

Summary U.S. equity markets rallied on the first week of the year after employment data showed strong job growth alongside a cool down in wage pressures, reviving hopes of a 'soft landing'. After posting declines of nearly 20% in 2022, the S&P 500 advanced 1.5% on the week- snapping...

The funds will change their underlying benchmarks to leading S&P Select Indices. ProShares and ProFunds, premier providers of leveraged and inverse funds, announced plans to change the underlying indices for a combined 53 sector ETFs and mutual funds to S&P Select Indices. T...

Summary 2022 provided long only investors with poor returns, both in equity and fixed income markets. With M-2 money supply growth slowing and a profits recession on the horizon, 2023 is likely to look a lot like 2022, particularly in the first half of the year. My portfolio allocat...

Summary Inflation and corresponding central banking policies will be the two most important signals for investors to focus on. Three scenarios for the global economy: Rolling recessions, hard landing, or immaculate disinflation. As we enter 2023, commercial real estate will experien...

Summary Global central banks have raised interest rates to grapple with reemergent inflation, causing bond and equity valuations to decline in synchrony. An investor can gain exposure to real estate through publicly traded REIT products or via open-end or closed-end private equity funds...

Summary Although the change in public REIT equity prices over the past 12 months would not suggest it, 2022 actually saw earnings growth arrive above our initial expectations. We forecast total returns for REITs in 2023 to be between +8% to +12%. Longer term, we maintain our outlook...

Summary The market crashed because the high inflation forced the Fed to hike rates. But now inflation is coming back down, and a pivot is coming. If you are still sitting in cash, take this as a serious warning. It appears that the period of high inflation is finally comin...

Summary U.S. equity markets closed out their worst year since the Financial Crisis with a fourth-straight week of declines as Treasury yields jumped back to seven-week highs on renewed inflation and COVID concerns. Dragging its full-year declines to nearly 20%, the S&P 500 slipped 0...

Summary U.S. equity markets declined for a third-straight week as benchmark interest rates surged after the advance of a $1.7 trillion federal spending package overshadowed another slate of encouraging inflation data. Declining for a third-straight week and finishing back on the cusp of...