In recent years, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have underperformed the broader market by a wide margin, primarily due to elevated interest rates. High interest rates exert significant pressure on REIT share prices for several reasons. Firstly, REITs rely partially on debt to finance their growth, and higher interest rates translate to increased interest expenses,
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Utility stocks are looking attractive after wandering in the wilderness for the past couple of years due to high inflation and interest rates. High prices caused pushback on utility rate increases, while the capital-intensive nature of their operations left them languishing in the high interest rate environment. It costs a lot of money to maintain,
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Monday’s sudden market crash disrupted investor sentiment. However, growing recession fears have investors pondering which stocks to sell in anticipation of a potential rotation into the Dow Jones. In July, investors were concerned that tech stocks had peaked after riding high on artificial intelligence (AI) developments. Some stocks were sold into more stable options concentrated
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The Dow Jones is one of the oldest benchmarks in investing. Introduced in 1896, the index remains a popular benchmark for measuring the economy. There’s certainly more to measuring the economy than a single benchmark, but investors have used it as a gauge for many years. The index has undergone many changes since its introduction
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The best cruise stocks are navigating a sea of opportunity as the sector continues its emphatic recovery from pandemic lows. Cruise liners, especially the market forerunners, have done an exceptional job of returning from the pandemic nightmare. Over the past few years, we’ve seen a marked increase in bookings and consumer demand for travel and
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Suddenly we’re headed for a recession. Or so it seems on Wall Street. Weak jobs and manufacturing data raised fears that the economy is slowing more rapidly than expected. This has led to an acceleration of the stock market selloff that began in July, with the technology-laden Nasdaq Composite index officially entering a correction, defined
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Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) stock is a relatively new entrant in the electric vehicle (EV) industry focusing on the premium and luxury segments with state of the art vehicles. Based on its first model, the Lucid Air, the company has gained much attention for its sophisticated battery technology and best-in-class efficiency.  This article will present the
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