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How to Play the Coming Real Estate Recovery with This REIT

Once of the biggest casualties in the financial crisis has been REITs. Globally, these made astonishing gains during the property boom. But they’ve taken one heck of a beating since.

Eric Roseman says the US REIT sector is likely to recover first. That’s because Europe and Asia are behind the US in the credit crunch cycle and have further to fall.

Pending home sales index bounced 7.4% in September. And government-auctioned foreclosures create great property bargains. Eric says iShares Real Estate ETF (NYSE:IYR) is one good way of playing this recovery.

Is This the Bottom of the Housing Market?

Data released today reveals an unexpected 7.4% jump in the pending home sales index. Andrew Snyder says the housing market is at or close to a bottom now. This means it could be the perfect time to buy a dream property on the cheap…

Bet on the Housing Recovery with This Dividend-Paying REIT

Remember how this whole financial mess started? Here’s a clue: house prices fell by a record 16.3% y-o-y in July.

Investors have fled the real estate market over the last year. But Andrew Snyder says the best time to invest in a sector is when it’s beaten down and oversold.

REIT Associated Estates Realty (NYSE:AEC) allows investors to bet on the housing recovery without the need to buy and sell property. It also pays healthy dividends in the meantime.

8 Inverse ETFs to Profit from Economic Meltdown

The news is saturated with Hank Paulson’s $700 bailout plan. This is diverting attention away from the increasingly bleak outlook for the wider economy.

Rick Pendergraft says no bailout can immediately solve the problems in the housing market. And all indicators suggest these will run well into 2009 at least.

Rick says your portfolio should be all about playing safe for now. He recommends eight inverse ETF plays to hedge against this downside risk.

Treasury Plan Must Tackle CDOs and CDS or Fail

Former professional trader and hedge-fund manager Shah Gilani says the very complexity of the global financial system brought us to the brink of a total meltdown. Asset-backed securities such as structured collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and the horrific offspring of the two, credit default swaps on structured collateralized debt obligations, are the main culprits, says Shah:

Economic Data Could Add to Market Woes This Week

Amid the billion-dollar bankruptcies and bailouts it can be easy to forget about the rest of the economy. Christian Hill says data from this week should reveal ongoing weakness in the housing market and wider economy. Hardly what the market wants to hear right now…

Short the Retail Sector to Profit from Empty Malls

Crude oil prices fell below $100 a barrel today on the back of the collapse of Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH).

The decline of oil since July has provided some relief to US drivers, and some analysts hope this trend will help revive consumption and retail sales.

Wave Strength Options Weekly editor Adam Lass disagrees. He says rising unemployment and record foreclosures are forcing households to tighten the purse strings - and a small saving on gas prices isn’t going to change that anytime soon.

This is why Adam says investors should continue to short the retail sector.

Short Whirlpool (WHR) for Minimum 30% Return

As the housing market slumps it should take anything related to building or furnishing with it.

However, the stock of home appliance maker Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) has risen 6.4% in the year to date despite razor thin margins and a wider downturn.

Wave Strength Options Weekly editor Adam Lass says this is a great opportunity to make at least 30% with a simple short play.

Buying strategic put options could increase these gains up to 118%.

Jim Rogers: Fannie and Freddie Bailout ‘Madness’, ‘Insanity’

The government’s bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) has Wall Street on a roll. After yesterday’s rally, US stock futures are pointing up again today.

For legendary investor Jim Rogers, however, the government’s intervention is “socialism for the rich.”

One big issue is the Treasury Department’s agreement to make secured loans to the companies if needed and even buy some mortgage-backed securities itself.

Kate Incontrera Says Strong 2Q Growth for US Was a ‘Mirage’

The bulls may be celebrating America’s stronger-than-expected 2Q GDP data, but most other data coming from the US smells pretty rotten. Unemployment reached a five-year high of 6.1% in August. The number of foreclosures continues to break new records. And last week, Integrity became the tenth US bank to go under this year. Kate Incontrera says anyone that was hoping for a speedy US recovery better think again…

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