Shares of real-estate names are trading higher Tuesday following better-than-expected inflation readings, with core consumer prices falling to a fresh two-year low.
Mortgage rates, the main concern of real estate firms, might have passed the peak. The market now expects the Federal Reserve to cut rates even sooner.
The CME Group's FedWatch is now pricing in no chance that the Fed will lift the benchmark federal funds rate by a quarter-point, to between 5.5% and 5.75%, when it meets next month in Washington. The odds of a cut in May rose to 47.05% from 30.64 a day ago.
The real estate industry was buoyed by the news. "Calmer inflation means lower mortgage rates, eventually," Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist, said in a statement to MPA.
Source: Dow Jones
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