Equity Residential reached an agreement with affiliates of Bank of America and Barclays PLC to extend to April 19, 2012 the period during which the company has the exclusive right to contract with the sellers to acquire their remaining 26.5...
Alrighty, equities are back, touching numbers not seen since, their 2007 highs. Small caps (Russell 2000 up by, as the WSJ aptly put it, an “eye–popping 36% since October) are on a run and no one cares.
Only about one out of every five rookies in the Wall Street brokerage business makes it through year two or three of a four-year training program. One firm found some tricks that work.
A new crop of commercial mortgage REITs emerging today may be less risky investments compared to the legacy commercial mortgage REITs that operated during the most recent real estate boom, argue some industry experts. According to backers, the...