The year 2014 opened up like a Chinese box for the U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs), each revealing a new surprise. Thanks to the treasury yields and interest rates movement, the REIT industry had a profitable 2014. In fact, the U.S. REIT stocks made a solid turnaround this year, following the underperformance to…
World currencies lost a lot of value in 2014. If you lived outside the United States, you would have done much better holding gold rather than local cash this past year. Check out this chart from The Market Oracle: Eventually the Federal Reserve will be unable to artificially prop-up the U.S. dollar. When that happens,…
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It appears the glorious trend of declining initial jobless claims has run its course. For the last 5 months, initial claims have oscillated around the crucial-to-the-narrative 300k level – breaking the constant downtrend of the last 4-5 years. Today’s 298k print, up 17k from last week, is the same level seen in the 3rd week of…
Though the year 2014 did not bring spectacular year-to-date (YTD) gains for the S&P (SPX), the benchmark index lately shook off all its deterrents and posted the strongest two-day gain in three years following the Fed’s more patient stance on the rate hike issue. Overall, the year was moderate for the broader market indices with…
