RWX News and Press, SPDR DJ Wilshire Intl Real Estate From 06/21/21

Cell Tower REITs - the single-largest REIT sector - are again pulling their weight after uncharacteristically lagging earlier this year, catalyzed by strong first quarter earnings and major M&A developments. Time To Focus: AT&T and Verizon ended their tumultuous foray into the...

SPDR Dow Jones International Real Estate ETF (RWX) - $0.2878.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.28% as of Jun. 17.Payable Jun 24; for shareholders of record Jun 22; ex-div Jun 21. For further details see: SPDR Dow Jones International Real Estate ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.2878

U.S. equity markets slid to their worst week since February after the Federal Reserve accelerated its "lift-off" plans in response to surging inflation, sparking a sell-off in economically sensitive assets. Snapping a three-week winning streak and retreating from record-highs set...

IHS Markit's PMI business surveys showed the economic recovery gaining momentum in May as output growth accelerated to the fastest for 15 years. Although growth of new orders accelerated globally in May to reach the highest since 2006, employment growth slowed marginally compared to A...

Diminishing economic uncertainty from COVID-19 should give rise to expectations of a normalisation of monetary and fiscal policy during 2022. Although there has been much discussion on the prospect of rapidly rising inflation, we believe growth risks remain paramount for equity invest...

U.S. equity markets rallied to fresh record highs this past week as long-term interest rates retreated despite inflation data showing the highest annual rise in consumer prices in decades. A seemingly insatiable bid for Treasury Bonds - a counterintuitive trend that some analysts like...

Vaccines are here, masks are off, and sports stadiums are full. Office desks around the country remain eerily empty, however, as office utilization rates remain a fraction of pre-COVID levels. For many corporations, there's no going back - at least not to pre-COVID norms. Survey data ...

The positive reverberations from the post-pandemic "housing boom" are now being felt across U.S. rental markets as single-family housing rents are suddenly soaring at the fastest rate on record. Riding the rental revival, Single-Family Rental REITs are the single-best performing ...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...