Real Estate & Housing
Daily Data Flow: U.S. Stocks Rise along with Housing Starts; Plot against Federal Reserve Bank of New York Thwarted; IMF Seeks Aid for Spain and Italy
U.S. Stocks Rise as Housing Data Overshadow Intel, IBM (Bloomberg). U.S. stocks rose, after the biggest gain in...
Daily Data Flow: Stocks Fall Amid Fed Bank President’s Skeptical View of Bond Buying Plan; Groupon’s Skid Hurts Nasdaq; Home Prices Rise
U.S. Stocks Decline Amid Plosser Comments on Fed Stimulus (Bloomberg) U.S. stocks declined today, erasing earlier gains in...
Federal Reserve Intervention Should Aid Real Estate Investors
The Federal Reserve’s latest quantitative-easing move announced on Thursday should help prospective real estate investors who are seeking...
PowerTrend Brief: Souring Confidence and Earnings Set the Stage for Housing, Bernanke and More
Economic indicators are interesting because we assume that they are signaling the vector and velocity of the economy...
ETF Talk: Real Estate Fund Offers Unexpected Investment Opportunity
After the housing bubble popped, most people have been wary of the real estate market. Despite this trepidation,...
This May Turn Out to Be My #1 Investment Idea of the Year
After the sharp sell-off in global stock markets across the board in May, 2012 is once again proving...
Don’t Listen to the “Chicken Littles” of the Media
We investment analysts are the "Chicken Littles" of media. A single bad day in the market, and we...
PowerTrend Brief: Economic Slowing in Housing and Manufacturing Now Hits Jobs
Last week, I shared my view that April would be the first down month for the S&P 500...
Three Top Markets Trouncing the S&P 500 in 2012
With the S&P 500 now up 12.52% since Jan. 1, it has been a strong start to 2012....
ETF Talk: Residential Real Estate Fund is on the Rise
With residential real estate showing signs of a budding recovery in certain markets, let’s look at one of...