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Jon OggThe analyst team at Sterne Agee has updated its book value estimates for the high-yield mortgage-backed securities (MBS) real estate investment trust (REIT) sector. The move is based on rising...
ThinkstockOne of the big reasons that investors look for stocks that may be added to the S&P 500 is that the stocks that make the cut immediately become targeted by portfolio managers that run...
ThinkstockThroughout May and June, we had been issuing warnings and highlighting research notes from Wall Street indicating that there was potentially a huge risk in the high-yield dividend mortgage...
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Thursday, July 11, 2013. They include Wynn Resorts, Avago Technologies, Transocean and Lululemon.
ThinkstockSterne Agee has downgraded many targets on its mortgage REIT sector. Investors can find extremely high-yield dividends here, often north of 10%, but the risk versus reward often can be too...
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Monday, June 17, 2013. They include Teradata, T-Mobile US, Lululemon and Time Warner Cable.
Jon OggThe recent rise in long-term interest rates is crushing the high dividend mortgage REIT sector, as investors are looking to pare down their exposure to riskier assets and assets that will be...
Jon OggRising interest rates on 10-year Treasuries suddenly may start competing against the high-dividend and high-yield stock sectors. The real question is which sectors will hold up and which ones...
Jon OggHigh yield investors have been chasing the attractive dividend payouts offered by the mortgage REIT sector for years and years now. Unlike the high payouts from telecom, tobacco, and utilities...
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following upward revisions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on non-farm payrolls in February and March and a larger-than-expected rise in payrolls in...
Jon OggThe stock market is ready to challenge new highs, and 2013 is off to a great start. One downside to market strength is that companies or their largest shareholders generally will start to sell...
We recently became worried about the future dividends of the high-yielding mortgage REIT sector due to QE3’s focus being on $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities. In fact, after our call of...
Ben Bernanke and the FOMC delivered today on the promise of quantitative easing to start buying mortgage-backed securities to the tune of $40 billion per month.  The measure would allow for $23...
While the media keeps putting the fear of Europe in you, stocks have bounced handily with the DJIA having bounced some 600 points in the last week and a half.  Amazingly, some stocks are hitting...
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated as Outperform with $675 price...