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 stocks, the…
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 April (more…
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 will start…
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 caution about…
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 $23 billion…
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. Amazingly, some…
Jon OggThese 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 at…
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 because the…
Investors are looking for yield, but many investors and speculators are betting against the highest dividend yield sectors. There are perhaps no higher dividends to be had than in the mortgage REIT…
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 quarterly filing…
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. (NASDAQ: AKAM), Acme…
Jon OggThese 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 JMP…
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 are hanging…
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 high dividends which…
Jon OggThese 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 at…
