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Why Financials Sector ETFs And Mutual Funds Are In Trouble
David Trainer • Tue, May 7 • 2 Comments
Best And Worst ETFs And Mutual Funds: Financials Sector
David Trainer • Mon, May 6
Retail And Technology Stocks Set To Fall Off A Cliff
Danny Furman • Tue, Dec 18, 2012 • 9 Comments
Still More Signs Of A Housing Recovery
Calafia Beach Pundit • Wed, Oct 17, 2012 • 5 Comments
Disliking The Guts Of This ETF: Sell URE
David Trainer • Tue, Oct 2, 2012 • 3 Comments
Top 5 Leveraged Short ETF Pairs: Riding The Waves Of Distortions
Richard Bloch • Mon, Jul 9, 2012 • 5 Comments
Case-Shiller Index Vs. Housing Market Index: Has Real Estate Bottomed Out?
Katchum • Sun, Jun 3, 2012 • 4 Comments
REITs Register Another Month Of Outperformance In April
Michael Terry • Thu, May 3, 2012 • 13 Comments
Bulls Or Bears Gaining The Edge?
George Simone • Wed, May 2, 2012 • 4 Comments
A Strategy For Shorting Leveraged ETF Pairs
Eric Falkenstein • Mon, Oct 31, 2011 • 5 Comments
2 Roads Diverge In Commercial Real Estate
Jan Brzeski • Tue, Aug 30, 2011 • 7 Comments
Recent Mortgage Data Offers Evidence of Rising Momentum
Markos Kaminis • Thu, Jul 7, 2011 • 6 Comments
Mortgage Activity Slips Despite Rate Decline
Markos Kaminis • Thu, Jun 30, 2011 • 3 Comments
Chilton: Time to Put REITs in the Portfolio
Brad Case • Wed, Jun 22, 2011 • 7 Comments
Real Estate Datapoint of the Day, Bill Gross Edition
Felix Salmon • Fri, Jun 10, 2011 • 8 Comments
Leveraged and Inverse ETF Performance YTD
Bespoke Investment Group • Thu, May 26, 2011 • 2 Comments
ETFs for the (Slowly) Improving Housing Market
Tom Lydon • Thu, Jan 20, 2011 • 1 Comment
2011 Stock Picks: REIT ETFs
Intelligent Speculator • Fri, Jan 7, 2011 • 3 Comments
Top 30 ETFs of 2010
Everyday Finance • Thu, Dec 30, 2010 • 2 Comments
10 ETFs on a Run
Stookle • Wed, Dec 29, 2010 • 1 Comment

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Disliking The Guts Of This ETF: Sell URE
David Trainer • Tue, Oct 2, 2012 • 3 Comments
Three Ways to Play Rising Commercial Real Estate Prices - One REIT, Two ETFs
The Wild Hog • Mon, Aug 2, 2010 • 24 Comments
Leveraged ETFs: A Seeking Alpha Expert Panel
SA Editors • Wed, Nov 11, 2009 • 10 Comments
What Happens When You Hold Leveraged ETFs for More than One Day?
Marc Gerstein • Wed, Mar 25, 2009 • 22 Comments
Rolling the Dice at the Real Estate Casino
TraderMark • Mon, Nov 24, 2008 • 1 Comment

Why Financials Sector ETFs And Mutual Funds Are In Trouble
David Trainer • Tue, May 7 • 2 Comments
Best And Worst ETFs And Mutual Funds: Financials Sector
David Trainer • Mon, May 6
Retail And Technology Stocks Set To Fall Off A Cliff
Danny Furman • Tue, Dec 18, 2012 • 9 Comments
Still More Signs Of A Housing Recovery
Calafia Beach Pundit • Wed, Oct 17, 2012 • 5 Comments
Top 5 Leveraged Short ETF Pairs: Riding The Waves Of Distortions
Richard Bloch • Mon, Jul 9, 2012 • 5 Comments
Case-Shiller Index Vs. Housing Market Index: Has Real Estate Bottomed Out?
Katchum • Sun, Jun 3, 2012 • 4 Comments
REITs Register Another Month Of Outperformance In April
Michael Terry • Thu, May 3, 2012 • 13 Comments
Bulls Or Bears Gaining The Edge?
George Simone • Wed, May 2, 2012 • 4 Comments
A Strategy For Shorting Leveraged ETF Pairs
Eric Falkenstein • Mon, Oct 31, 2011 • 5 Comments
2 Roads Diverge In Commercial Real Estate
Jan Brzeski • Tue, Aug 30, 2011 • 7 Comments
Recent Mortgage Data Offers Evidence of Rising Momentum
Markos Kaminis • Thu, Jul 7, 2011 • 6 Comments
Mortgage Activity Slips Despite Rate Decline
Markos Kaminis • Thu, Jun 30, 2011 • 3 Comments
Chilton: Time to Put REITs in the Portfolio
Brad Case • Wed, Jun 22, 2011 • 7 Comments
Real Estate Datapoint of the Day, Bill Gross Edition
Felix Salmon • Fri, Jun 10, 2011 • 8 Comments
Leveraged and Inverse ETF Performance YTD
Bespoke Investment Group • Thu, May 26, 2011 • 2 Comments
ETFs for the (Slowly) Improving Housing Market
Tom Lydon • Thu, Jan 20, 2011 • 1 Comment
2011 Stock Picks: REIT ETFs
Intelligent Speculator • Fri, Jan 7, 2011 • 3 Comments
Top 30 ETFs of 2010
Everyday Finance • Thu, Dec 30, 2010 • 2 Comments
10 ETFs on a Run
Stookle • Wed, Dec 29, 2010 • 1 Comment
Top 30 'Liquid' ETFs
TraderMark • Mon, Nov 29, 2010 • 2 Comments

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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Sector ETFs, Real Estate [REIT] ETFs
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Thursday, January 24, 8:53 AM "(Commercial property) values are increasing but they're not running away," says Starwood (STWD) CEO Barry Sternlicht in an interview about the LNR purchase. He notes money is beginning to move out of fixed income into real property. This isn't news for major city centers, but Sternlicht says it's beginning to spill into "secondary cities." Comment! [Financials, U.S. Economy]
Friday, January 18, 10:59 AM More good news for housing: Household formation growth is back. After averaging more than 1M/year prior to the property bust, formations dropped to about 500K/year between 2008-10. The number bounced to 1.1M in 2011 and looks to have risen further last year. The gains are particularly felt in the rental market, and builders are obliging with a big jump in multi-family starts. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 4:08 PM Norway's sovereign wealth fund is jumping into U.S. real estate, planning to invest about $11B of its $660B in "conservative" investments such as office complexes in major cities. The fund - just stocks and bonds at the moment - wants to have 5% of its assets in property. "The U.S. is the next real estate market to invest in," says fund management chief Yngve Slyngstad. 1 Comment [U.S. Economy, Global & FX]
Monday, November 26, 2012, 3:38 PM Focus on D.C. is preventing many from seeing the potential for housing - and by relation, employment - to deliver a big upside surprise in 2013, writes Jim Leaviss. If past patterns hold, the recent sharp decline in inventory should presage strong growth next year. Rising house prices removes a key psychological block from buyers - most prefer to buy into a clearly rising market. 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:29 PM Developed real estate ex-U.S. (WPS) holds its ground over the last 2 months as domestic property (IYR) falls more than 7%. YTD, WPS is up 25.4% vs. an 8.7% gain for IYR. Another international fund, VNQI - holding many of the same stocks, but less top-heavy - has posted an even greater return, +28.1%. 3 Comments [Global & FX]
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 11:00 AM The seasonally-adjusted delinquency rate for 1-4 family homes fell18 bps to 7.40% in Q3, according to the MBA. The rate fell 59 bps on a Y/Y basis. The percentage of loans in some sort of delinquency fell to 11.71% from 12.63% a year ago. "A significant drop in the shadow inventory of distressed loans (is) a real positive for the housing market." (see Blackstone - buying up everything it sees). 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 12:29 PM Developed real estate ex- U.S. (WPS) continues to add to its sizable lead over domestic property (IYR, VNQ), with all of the outperformance coming since late July. The fund's largest holdings are concentrated in Asia - Japan, Hong Kong - with a bit of Australia and Europe thrown in. 1 Comment
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 8:39 AM More on September Housing Starts: Both starts and permits post their best numbers since the summer of 2008. August's gains are revised higher to +4.1% from +2.3%. As hoped, it appears housing starts are catching up to large previous gains in builder confidence. (see also) Comment! [U.S. Economy]
Friday, September 14, 2012, 3:09 PM Trailing U.S. real estate (IYR, VNQ) badly for much of the last month, the past few sessions have been especially good for developed real estate ex-U.S (WPS). On a YTD basis, WPS continues to outperform domestic property by about 600 basis points. Comment!
Saturday, August 25, 2012, 10:00 AM Southern Co. (SO) and Verizon (VZ) may be the "poster children" among high dividend-payers as the quest for yield takes the utility (XLU), telecom (IXP), and consumer staples (XLP) sectors to frothy levels. The flip-side are health-care services (XHS), autos (CARZ), housing (IYR), and tech (XLK) - lower payers, but with relative valuations that have rarely been this cheap. 17 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 3:15 PM The 4.8% Q2 gain in Freddie Mac's House Price Index was the strongest print in 8 years, says Chief Economist Frank Nothaft. He casts doubt on the claim of a massive "shadow inventory" set to be unleashed on the market, noting sharp declines in both excess-for-rent and excess-for-sale inventory. Also, national figures are obscuring true tightness in many local markets. 7 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Thursday, July 5, 2012, 1:16 PM Price matters. Real estate funds have trumped all other categories of stock fund over the last 3 years, not because the underlying assets have great fundamentals, but because the class "was priced for bankruptcy" in 2009. Now the fundamentals are turning. Some favorites: VNQ, SPG, AVB, FNIO, ICF, IFGL. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 9:42 AM Blackstone (BX) gets into the residential landlord business, buying up $250M worth of foreclosed single-family homes with the intention of renting them out, according to sources. The firm joins what can now be called a mad rush of deep-pocketed investors trying to take single-family rentals out of the mom-and-pop category and into a major asset class. 24 Comments [Financials]
Friday, June 29, 2012, 3:21 PM Real estate ex-U.S. outperformed U.S. real estate this month, WPS +4.9% (45 minutes before the close) vs. IYR and VNQ, each up about 2.5%. Over the last year though, it's not close, with U.S. real estate outperforming ex-U.S. by 1500 basis points or more (depending on the ETF), the divergence beginning last last fall. Comment!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 1:19 PM Even with meaty yields, the dividend payout ratios for REITs remain very low, and thus very safe, says Fidelity's Sam Wald. Current low levels of supply mean economic growth does not have to be great for these companies to grow nicely, he adds. 1 Comment [Financials]
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 5:54 AM New foreclosures fell 16% in March from a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac, reaching the the lowest quarterly total since 2007. RealtyTrac expects foreclosure activity to remain elevated, though "the faster we can move some of these old foreclosures through the pipeline, the faster the market can be in a place to recover." Comment! [U.S. Economy]

James Gepperth
$DDM, $SSO, $UYG, $URE.. The markets are flying high. More sequester please!
Apr 10, 12:19 PM
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Pradeep Kandasamy
Shorting REITs is better than shorting treasuries URE http://bit.ly/RcERKI
9/3/12
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sportsguy
URE finding support at May highs. A hard asset and business profitability proxy, URE can be market predictive if it breaks below support
8/13/12
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Thomas Pan
RealtyTrac predicts that housing market will not begin to bottom until 2014 DRN DRV URE
12/14/10
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Thomas Pan
Mortgage rates seen rising to 5.1% in next year $DRN $DRV $SRS $URE $IYR
11/7/10
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David Fry
ETF in Focus: IYR & URE http://bit.ly/98UtgT
9/20/10
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BARBI520
long X from $40.00, MT from $26.00 long DTEGY, TEO, FAS, URE, CTXS, SAN, Sold naked puts on UYM SCCO at last bottom. 08/21 exp
8/14/10
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Thomas Pan
There are 2.1 million unsold houses. Excess inventory is the mortal enemy of house prices, which may fall another 20%. IYR URE SRS DRN DRV
7/27/10
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Thomas Pan
Among $14 trillion in household debt, $10.5 trillion is mortgage-related IYR URE SRS DRV DRN XLF UYG SKF FAS FAZ
7/11/10
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Thomas Pan
In the past, lower mortgage rates have kicked off waves of mortgage refinancing, fuelling consumer spending IYR URE SRS DRN DRV
7/11/10
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