REM News and Press, iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF From 06/03/19

It's been a wave of capital raising for the mREITs in 2019, but Annaly Capital ( NLY +2.8% ) this morning perhaps launched a wave of capital returns with a $1.5B buyback announcement . More news on: Annaly Capital Management, Inc., AGNC Investment Corp., Chimera Investment Corporation, ...

The mortgage REITs are all falling together: Annaly Capital Management ( NLY ), Two Harbors Investment Corp ( TWO ), Chimera Investment Corp ( CIM ), AGNC Investment Corp ( AGNC ), as well as others. Any mREIT that holds mainly agency MBS is getting punched in the mouth. Even the mREITs that d...

Real Estate Weekly Review On a tumultuous month that saw the S&P 500 ( SPY ) dive more than 6% and temporarily wipe-out more than $4 trillion in market value, REITs ( VNQ ) eked out a 0.1% monthly gain as real estate became the best-performing equity sector in 2019. The sudden and unexpe...

Tumbling rates at the long end of the curve have put a big hurt on the mREIT industry this month. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, Annaly Capital Management, Inc., New Residential Investment Corp., Financial stocks news, Stocks on the move, News on ETFs,...

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.99% for the week ending May 30, 2019, the first time it has dipped below 4% since January 2018, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares Mortgage Real...

As Freddie Mac ( OTCQB:FMCC +0.4% ) and Fannie Mae ( OTCQB:FNMA -0.3% ) prepare to launch a new combined security that ends the distinction between bonds issued by the two government-sponsored enterprises, an argument brews over whether the move to unify a $4.4T pile of agency MBS curr...

Focus of Article: The focus of this article is to provide readers fixed-rate agency mortgage-backed security (“MBS”) price movements during the second quarter of 2019 (through 5/24/2019). This includes pricing for both 15- and 30-year fixed-rate agency MBS holdings. Due to t...

Mortgage REITs stand to grow as the goverment's role in the mortgage market ebbs. More news on: Annaly Capital Management, Inc., AGNC Investment Corp., Two Harbors Investment Corp., Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ...

By Michael S. Canter and Janaki Rao Credit risk-transfer securities (CRTs) have made the US mortgage market safer by shifting default risk from taxpayers to private investors. The latest attempt to overhaul the housing finance system isn't likely to change that. A recent memo from Presid...

There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields - a fact which future historians will find baffling. Until now those negative yields have been limited to the safest types of bonds issued by governments and major corporations. But this week a new category of negative...