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Is QE Damning Mortgage REITs and Their Dividend Prospects?

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 12:47 pm

High yield investors have been chasing the attractive dividend payouts offered by the mortgage REIT sector for years and years now. Unlike the high payouts from telecom, tobacco, and utilities ...
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Closing Bell for Thursday on Wall Street: Markets Rise to New Highs on Jobs Report

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following upward revisions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on non-farm payrolls in February and March and a larger-than-expected rise in payrolls in ...
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Market Highs Bringing Waves of Secondary Offerings (AGNC, CWH, DPM, DFRG, EPB, HZO, MPW, TRS)

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 9:05 am

The stock market is ready to challenge new highs, and 2013 is off to a great start. One downside to market strength is that companies or their largest shareholders generally ...
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BofA Raising High-Dividend Mortgage REITs, But Warns of Lower Dividends

Posted: September 26, 2012 at 12:03 pm

We recently became worried about the future dividends of the high-yielding mortgage REIT sector due to QE3's focus being on $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities. In fact, after our call of ...
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QE3 May Pose At Least Some Dividend Risks To High-Yield Mortgage REITS (NLY, AGNC, CIM, MFA, STWD, IVR, HTS, CYS, ANH, MORT)

Posted: September 13, 2012 at 1:21 pm

Ben Bernanke and the FOMC delivered today on the promise of quantitative easing to start buying mortgage-backed securities to the tune of $40 billion per month.  The measure would allow for ...
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What Worries? These Stocks Are At All-Time Highs! (AGNC, AWR, BIIB, DG, DLTR, FDO, KMB, LPSN, DNKN, ROST, DIS)

Posted: June 14, 2012 at 2:22 pm

While the media keeps putting the fear of Europe in you, stocks have bounced handily with the DJIA having bounced some 600 points in the last week and a half.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, AGNC, BX, BA, CG, C, DKS, ENS, HFC, KKR, LULU, NDAQ, TNAV, WABC)

Posted: June 12, 2012 at 8:17 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated as Outperform with $675 price target ...
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Annaly Holds Up Well On Creative Financing (NLY, AGNC, REM)

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 9:50 am

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is perhaps one of the most closely watched mortgage REITs of them all, in part because of the $16 billion size and in part ...
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Chimera Accounting Review, A Lesson For Other Mortgage REITs (CIM, NLY, AGNC, HTS, MORT)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 11:01 am

Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub "the vulture mortgage REIT" because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay in a ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AGNC, AKAM, APKT, CSCO, ORCL)

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 8:59 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of American Capital Agency Corp (NASDAQ: AGNC), Akamai Technologies, Inc. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AGNC, AAPL, ADM, CALM, CAT, DLTR, FDO, HPQ, KIRK, LNC, MON, NAV, TIF, VECO)

Posted: October 17, 2011 at 8:16 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC) Cut to Market Perform at ...
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Mortgage REITs Trying To Recapture Lost Ground (NLY, AGNC, HTS, CIM, IVR, MORT)

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 9:55 am

The mortgage REIT sector is trying to make a comeback after many lost 10% or more of their value from last week to the start of this week as many issues ...
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Are High-Yield Mortgage Dividend REITs Doomed? (NLY, AGNC, HTS, CIM, IVR, RWT, PMT, DX, ARI, STWD, CLNY, CXS, MORT)

Posted: September 3, 2011 at 9:30 am

There was a development this week in the land of the high-yielding mortgage REITs.  Wealthy and income oriented investors have been flocking to these for years because of their ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AGNC, NLY, CAB, CP, CIM, EDMC, FDX, FSLR, GS, HTS, IVR, JOSB, LQDT, MDR, ODFL, RIMM, SKS, TD, UPS)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 8:26 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC) Cut to Neutral ...
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New Mortgage REIT ETF Highlights Double-Digit Dividend Yields (MORT, NLY, AGNC, CIM, MFA, HTS)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Investors now have yet one more option to choose from when it comes to investing in mortgage REITs.  Van Eck Global has now launched the Market Vectors Mortgage REIT Income ...
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