Tuesday’s announcement that the current annualized rate of inflation increased to 8.5% (the highest since December 1981) briefly tempered the rate of the benchmark US Treasury before today’s rise. Increases in the indexes for gasoline and food were large contributors…
The Federal Reserve’s March meeting ended on Wednesday with policymakers signaling that surging inflation along with a tight labor market could warrant a half-point rate hike at future meetings. This type of “hawkish” tone from the Fed along with increased…
This age-old question is fervently being debated across the CRE world, from brokers demanding record low cap rates, to sellers extending their own escrows to buy more 1031 identification time, to sponsors with ever-lower LTVs with maturing loans facing an…
During one of the final Slatt Capital internal weekly calls of 2021, President Michael Kaplan asked each producer for their idea of where the US10Y would finish out the year. While I was not the winner with my pick, my…
April 1, 2021 Slatt Capital began making a donation to the MBA’s Opens Doors Foundation for each multi-family loan the company funds. The foundation helps vulnerable families with critically ill or injured children stay in their homes while a child is…
The financial markets have experienced extreme volatility over the past 30 days due to high inflation in the US, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and daily volatility in the 10-year index (US10Y). The US10Y has always been known as…
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