REM News and Press, iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF From 03/13/23

(NewsDirect) RemSense Technologies Ltd (ASX:REM) CEO Steve Brown tells Proactive the company has been awarded a contract from AGC Industries Pty Ltd on behalf of Chevron Australia to undertake virtualplant scanning of its additional LNG facilities through 2023 and 2024. The technology solutio...

(NewsDirect) RemSense Technologies Ltd (ASX:REM) MD Steve Brown updates Proactive on latest developments with its unique virtualplant software and the current integration with IBM. He says the company is in the final stages of project negotiation with Tier 1 clients valued in excess of $2 mil...

Real Estate Weekly Review Ahead of next week's all-important Federal Reserve interest rate decision, US equity markets rallied as the S&P 500 ( SPY ) and Nasdaq ( QQQ ) each climbed to new all-time record highs on a jam-packed week of earnings and economic data. Earnings results have gen...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.75% for the week ending July 25, down from 3.81% in the previous week and 4.45% a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, KB Home, PulteGroup, Inc., Financial stocks n...

Surging prices are a demand killer, but real estate industry laments the medicine didn't work. The relentlessness of falling home sales is starting to baffle the real estate industry that had expected plunging mortgage rates to fire up sales: Across the US, sales of "existing homes" (previ...

Last month I wrote a strategy piece on ideas for an inverted yield curve . The idea was that when the yield curve inverts - that is, short rates are higher than long rates - eventually, that relationship reverses. So while yield curve flattening is a headwind for certain types of securiti...

Focus of Article: The focus of this article is to provide a detailed projection of AGNC Investment Corp.’s ( AGNC ) book value (“BV”) per common share as of 6/30/2019. Prior to results being provided to the public on 7/24/2019 (via the company’s quarterly press ...

Real Estate Weekly Review A dynamic that surely further enrages critics of the Federal Reserve and the immense power of a small group of economists over investment markets, US equity markets gyrated this week on every utterance of Fed members in a series of speeches ahead of the most clos...

ETF Overview The VanEck Vectors Mortgage REIT Income ETF ( MORT ) owns a portfolio of mortgage REITs in the U.S. The fund tracks the MVIS US Mortgage REITs Index. MORT’s portfolio of mREITs is generally sensitive to the difference between short-term and long-term interest rates. Altho...

Outstanding mortgage balances increased for the seventh straight quarter reaching $9.5T, a new high and well above the $8.5T balance during the financial crisis in 2008, according to Experian data from Q1 2019. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares ...