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When Your Multi-Family REIT Isn’t One Anymore

Tim McPartland | August 4, 2014
When we buy a REIT most of the time we make the purchase based upon the segment of the market the REIT is in.  When we want storage REITs we consider the numerous companies in that business.  When we want a data center REIT we can pick for a number of firms in that area of REITdom. When we want…

No One is Buying the Good Economic Forecasts

Tim McPartland | August 4, 2014
Stocks started to the upside today before falling back a modest amount--the Dog Days of Summer are here for sure.  Add into this the absolute lack of positive news anywhere there simply is no reason for equities to move higher.  It seems to us that the European economies are the biggest problem right now.  Virtually all of the European economies…

Bond Yields Fall Back–Again

Tim McPartland | August 4, 2014
August 3, 2014  9 pmAfter an exciting week last week in which rates skyrocketed up on Wednesday only to fall back on Friday almost to the point where they started the week.  Obviously global political worries led to bond buyers overhwhelming the sellers once again--as they have all year.  While the employment numbers were soft (below expectations). GDP came in…

Added New Section for Utility Preferred Stocks

Tim McPartland | August 3, 2014
As has been requested by a number of readers we have a section that is Preferred Stocks of Utilities.  This is actually a fairly short list as we cover just $20/share and $25/share issues, while many utilities issue only $100/share issues (and there are many old $100/share issues outstanding).  Our experience on most of the $100/share issues is that liquidity…
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