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- What's Going on with the Dollar?
- Zacks.com submits: Amidst all the volatility in the stock market, there have been equally wild moves in the currency markets. The dollar has been in general decline since 2002, but that has reversed dramatically in the last month. As measured by the broad trade-weighted index, it fell from...
- External links 2008-10-29
- Notes on the Census Bureau's January Retail Sales Report
- Zacks.com submits: This morning, the Census Bureau reported retail sales for January. January total retail and food service sales came in at $345 billion, an increase of 1% from December 2008. This was a pleasant surprise in light of December 2008 sales being revised downward by 0.3% to...
- External links 2009-02-12
- How Much More Will Housing Prices Decline?
- Zacks.com submits: by Dirk van Dijk On Thursday, the National Association of Realtors announced that the median price of an existing home declined 12.4% in 2008 and now stands at $180,100 -- its lowest level since the second quarter of 2003. Median home prices are not the best...
- External links 2009-02-15
- Vornado Should Withstand Economic Crisis
- Zacks.com submits: Vornado Realty Trust VNO is a New York-based real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, owns, and leases office properties, retail space and temperature-controlled logistics and refrigerated warehouses. The company owns and manages approximately 100 million square feet of real estate (including pro-rata share of partially-owned...
- External links 2009-02-18
- First Glimpse of Q1 Earnings: 2 Companies That Could Surprise
- Zacks.com submits: by Charles Rotblut The earnings calendar is limited this week with just 93 companies confirmed to report. First-quarter earnings season will not "officially" start until April. by Zacks.com
- External links 2009-03-16
- REITs: Good Time to Buy, But Expect Near-Term Choppy Prices
- Zacks.com submits: Equity REITs posted somewhat of a comeback last week after a rough 1st quarter. So far in March, REITs have rebounded 7% total return FTSE NAREIT Index. All sectors are up in March; the best performing sectors were apartments (16% return), industrial (16%), and lodging (15%)....
- External links 2009-03-17
- Rebound in Housing Starts Is Not a Sign of a Sustainable Turnaround
- Zacks.com submits: by Dirk van Dijk At last month's sales pace, it would take 13.3 months to sell all the new homes currently in inventory. This is by far an all-time record. So what happens? New housing starts jumped in February 22.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR)...
- External links 2009-03-17
- From the Fed: Bold Measures
- Zacks.com submits: The big news from the Fed today was its intention to buy more debt-related securities. Specifically, the Fed will purchase up to an additional $750 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities. Furthermore, the Fed will purchase up to $300 billion of longer-term Treasury securities over the...
- External links 2009-03-18
- A More Modest AIG Bonus Proposal
- Zacks.com submits: We need to set aside our self-righteous indignation with respect to AIG AIG paying bonuses for a moment.We are concerned with what could be viewed as the House of Representatives attempting to set aside our Constitution with its proposed ex post facto "after the fact" bill....
- External links 2009-03-23
- Earnings Preview: Apollo Group, RIM Could Surprise
- Zacks.com submits: First-quarter earnings season will "officially" start on Apr 7, when Alcoa AA reports. The bulk of reports won't be seen until the second-half of the month. March employment data is due out on Friday. Keep an eye on nonfarm payrolls, forecasts have the decline holding in...
- External links 2009-03-29
- Bullish on REITs Equity Sales
- Zacks.com submits: Simon Property Group SPG announced last week the sale of 17.2 million shares of common stock at $31.50 per share. In conjunction with the equity sale, SPG sold $650 million of 10.35% notes raising a total of about $1.2 billion. Also last week, AMB Property Corp....
- External links 2009-03-30
- Alcoa Will Kick Off Q1 Earnings Season
- Zacks.com submits: First-quarter earnings season "officially" starts on Tuesday afternoon with Alcoa's AA report. Per share earnings for the S&P 500 SPY are projected to have fallen 13.9%. Median company earnings are likely to be worse, down 21%. (The difference is that median earnings are not weighted, whereas...
- External links 2009-04-05
- Kimco Realty Pleases Investors by Addressing Debt
- Zacks.com submits: Kimco Realty KIM announced Thursday plans to sell 91.5 million shares of common stock at $7.10 per share. In addition, the company has granted its underwriters an option to purchase 13.7 million shares. The company will net about $623.6 million from the sale, which will be...
- External links 2009-04-06
- REITs Have a Rough First Quarter
- Zacks.com submits: Highlights include Equity Residential EQR and Mid-America Apartments MAA.Despite a slight rally Monday, equity REITs posted a 32% decline in the 1st quarter FTSE NAREIT Equity Index. In March, REITs were up about 4%. by Zacks.com
- External links 2009-04-07
- In a Recession, Earnings Performance Is All Relative
- Zacks.com submits: As I look at the mix of companies on which brokerage analysts are raising forecasts, it's very clear that actual performance relative to expectations is a key driver of positive estimate revisions. The biggest example is Research In Motion RIMM. As you probably remember, the company...
- External links 2009-04-16
- General Growth Properties: A Really Big Bankruptcy
- Zacks.com submits: In one of the largest real estate bankruptcies of all time, General Growth Properties GGP announced early this morning that the company will file Chapter 11. After months of negotiations, bondholders finally lost patience. Unable to refinance maturing debt amidst the credit squeeze, the company was...
- External links 2009-04-16
- Liberty Property: Tarred with the CRE Brush
- Zacks.com submits: Liberty Property Trust LRY is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses primarily on prime suburban properties in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest regions of the United States. The company's portfolio comprises over 700 industrial and office properties, spanning 77 million...
- External links 2009-04-16
- Office REIT Outlook Still Bleak
- Zacks.com submits: According to new data from commercial real estate services company Cushman and Wakefield, US office market vacancies jumped in 1Q09. The overall US office vacancy rate was 12.5% in 1Q09, 130 bps higher than year-end 2008. Only one market of the 31 CBDs central business districts...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Geithner's Testimony: Lots of Questions, Few Answers
- Zacks.com submits: This morning, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner testified before the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) headed by Elizabeth Warren. In general, the questions were excellent; unfortunately, the answers were not forthcoming. One excellent question was, "How does protecting the common shareholders of Citigroup C help the...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Commercial Property Goes South
- Zacks.com submits: The Moodys/Real National All Property Index dropped 0.6% in February compared to January of this year. In addition, the index is about 21% lower than a year ago, and about 18% lower than two years ago. This index tracks the change in sale prices...
- External links 2009-04-28
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