Dividend-Paying REITs to Become Their Own Sector: Managers May Be Forced to Buy

Dividend-Paying REITs to Become Their Own Sector: Managers May Be Forced to Buy

Posted: May 4, 2016 at 10:55 am

Wall Street money managers are all about weightings in their portfolios, and currently most are underweight the real estate investment trust (REIT) arena, on average by about 3.3%. That could ...
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5 Top Stocks and 6 Sectors to Own If Inflation Makes a Comeback

Posted: March 28, 2016 at 9:50 am

Inflation is a word that hasn’t been uttered that much for the past few years, and with good reason. With the exception of the run of oil to more than $100 a ...
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Merrill Lynch Makes 3 Key Changes to US 1 List in Oil and REITs

Posted: October 6, 2015 at 12:25 pm

Many firms have their own version of a "focus list" of top Buy-rated stocks for their clients. The Merrill Lynch US 1 List is effectively the same thing as the ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Baidu, BlackBerry, GM, PayPal, Teva, Yelp and Many More

Posted: July 28, 2015 at 8:26 am

Stocks were indicated higher on Tuesday morning after 5 days in a row of selling. Yet again we see the trend of investors finding a reason to buy every stock ...
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Sears Dips Further Into REIT Waters

Posted: April 13, 2015 at 8:55 am

Monday morning’s announcement that Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) and Simon Property Group Inc. (NYSE: SPG) have created a joint venture (JV) to hold 10 Sears properties located at Simon ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apple, BP, Hewlett-Packard, Philip Morris, UnitedHealth, AT&T and More

Posted: April 13, 2015 at 8:45 am

Stocks were indicated higher on Monday. Investors have lined up to buy stocks on weakness for over three years now in this six-year bull market. 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens ...
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Insiders Sell High-Profile Stocks as 2014 Trading Comes to an End

Posted: January 3, 2015 at 9:10 am

It probably would come as no surprise to most stock market watchers that insiders have taken the opportunity this year to take some money off the table during what has ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Comcast, Groupon, HCA, J.P. Morgan, JetBlue, NetApp, Verifone and More

Posted: November 12, 2014 at 8:45 am

Stocks were indicated lower on Wednesday morning, but that is after new highs were seen. One thing has been proven over and over in this bull market: investors will buy ...
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5 Stocks That Will Benefit as Construction Boom Continues in 2015

Posted: October 23, 2014 at 10:55 am

One source of growth for the economy continuing to fight back five years after the Great Recession is commercial construction. While nonresidential construction spending is 14% below past cycle highs, ...
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UBS Scans Stock Alternatives for Much Higher Yields

Posted: February 20, 2014 at 8:25 am

One of the terrible things about taking interest rates to near zero and keeping them there is the savers in this country get murdered. Long gone are the 5% CDs ...
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Seven Dividend REIT Stocks Not Afraid of Higher Interest Rates

Posted: January 10, 2014 at 8:15 am

In the five periods of rising interest rates since the modern real estate investment trust (REIT) era began in the early 1990s, the REIT analysts at Jefferies found that REITs ...
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QE Tapering Delay Just What Top-Yielding REITs Needed to Move Higher

Posted: September 23, 2013 at 9:25 am
Last updated: January 8, 2014 7:20 am

The surprising move last week by the Federal Reserve to postpone the tapering of the $85 billion per month bond-buying program known as quantitative easing put some very strong wind ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apache, Broadcom, Intel, Verizon and More

Posted: September 17, 2013 at 8:35 am

Stocks have been in rally mode, and now investors have to decide whether they will chase stocks or sell them into strength. 24/7 Wall St. reviews literally dozens of Wall ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: Fusion-io, Marvell, National Oilwell Varco and More

Posted: September 10, 2013 at 8:40 am

Investors and traders are often looking for new research ideas that can generate higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each morning to find ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: CenturyLink, Dendreon, Gap, ING, VMWare and More

Posted: August 23, 2013 at 8:50 am

It is an August Friday, and there are a surprising number of research calls before the week ahead, which is usually the slowest week of the year other than the ...
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