Archive for Real Estate

Friday Charts: A Mountain of Cash and Two Shocking Rebounds

WallStreetDaily.com It’s Friday in the Wall Street Daily Nation. That means I’m ditching our regular routine of commentary-based articles and, instead, using charts to present some important investment and economic insights. This week, I’m sharing the most important Fiscal Cliff-related graphic I’ve seen in weeks. I’m not going to spend…

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Housing Recovery: Does the Shadow Inventory Pose a Threat?

WallStreetDaily.com While the housing recovery is certainly underway, “the shadow inventory remains a threat to the speed of the housing recovery,” according to Reuters’ Rhonda Shaffler. Shadow inventory “refers to distressed homes that are somewhere in the foreclosure process.” It includes homes that are seriously delinquent, or ones that the…

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Friday Charts: Debt, Taxes and Real Estate, Oh My!

WallStreetDaily.com Pretty picture time. On Fridays in the Wall Street Daily Nation, we ditch our regular routine of commentary-based articles. Instead, we use graphics to present a handful of important investment and economic insights. This week, I’m dishing on debt, taxes, real estate, the world’s biggest stock and the surprising…

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Friday Charts: Nasty Politics and the Best Inflation Hedge

WallStreetDaily.com Words mean little on Fridays in the Wall Street Daily Nation. Instead, we let pretty pictures do the talking for us. Each week, I select a handful of graphics to put important economic and investing news into perspective for you. So I’ll (mostly) shut up now… Bad for Politics,…

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Friday Charts: The Most Interesting (and Irrelevant?) Gold Chart in the World

WallStreetDaily.com It’s Friday in the Wall Street Daily Nation. That means I’m ditching our regular routine of commentary-based articles and, instead, using charts to present some important investment and economic insights. This week, I’m dishing on jobs, since it was a prime focus during Wednesday’s first Presidential debate. I’m addressing…

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Real Estate Recovery: See it, Believe it… and Then Invest in It!

WallStreetDaily.com A smart investor recognizes that the market is a forward-looking beast. He also knows that the market regularly scales “walls of worry,” and that prices rise before everyone realizes a recovery is imminent. The average investor? Well, he sits on the sidelines and, in turn, misses out on significant…

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The Seven Most Important Charts of 2012

WallStreetDaily.com Break out the bubbly because it’s Friday in the Wall Street Daily Nation! For the newbies in the group, once a week I embrace the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. And I select a handful of graphics to convey important economic or investment insights. This…

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Friday Charts: Yup! Mutual Fund Managers Are Still Pitiful…

WallStreetDaily.com Words mean little on Fridays in the Wall Street Daily Nation. Instead, we let pretty pictures do the talking for us. So I’ll (mostly) shut up now… Mutual Funds Really Suck in 2012… Unless you’re completely clueless, you already know the average mutual fund manager fails miserably at beating…

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Three More Bullish Real Estate Charts

WallStreetDaily.com It defies all logic. Gloomy economic data continues to pour in, raising the specter of another recession. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index and the ISM Manufacturing Index are two of the latest to disappoint. Yet the most recent data out of the real estate market keeps surprising to…

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Why Asia’s Rich are Buying Up Real Estate

WallStreetDaily.com   Wall Street Daily’s Karim Rahemtulla and Louis Basenese aren’t the only ones tuned in to real estate investments now. According to Reuters’ Tessa Dunlop, “Real estate is viewed as a safe investment in many parts of Asia, despite worries about a property market crash.” Why are they turning…

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