by SVN Commercial Advisory Group | Jan 18, 2021
Interest Rates The yield curve, a measure of interest rate differences between short-dated and long-dated securities, has similarly continued along a path of recent recovery. A steep sloping yield curve is considered a market predictor of positive future economic...
by SVN Commercial Advisory Group | Oct 21, 2019
Plenty of Headwinds Still Pose Risk “By 2020, tariffs already imposed or announced would shrink global GDP by 0.8%. That is equivalent to the whole economy of Switzerland.” – New IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, as the IMF further cut its global...
by SVN Commercial Advisory Group | Sep 19, 2019
CoStar Analysis: US Central Bank Now Must Gauge Effects of Recent Changes The Federal Reserve reduced its policy rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 1.75% to 2%, the second interest rate cut from the central bank in two months, as data indicates a slowing...
by SVN Commercial Advisory Group | Aug 7, 2019
CoStar Analysts Take Stock of Recent Headlines It appears that U.S. financial market is finally waking up to the reality of the intended and unintended consequences of the trade war. The main unintended result as been the uncertainty among businesses about future...
by SVN Commercial Advisory Group | Jul 18, 2019
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated last week the central bank could soon cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade. While commercial real estate typically welcomes rate cuts, economists don’t think it will drastically alter the...
