Alta Equipment: Booking Inflection And Deleveraging Make The Levered Equity A Buy

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate reached 7.5% as Hepp spoke, a level that reflects the sustained pressure long-term Treasury yields have placed on home lending costs throughout this rate cycle. That pressure stems from structural forces that Fed policy cannot easily reverse: expanding fiscal deficits, rising term premiums, shifting global capital flows, and evolving investor…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday rose by +0.86%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) rose by +0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) rose by +0.91%.  E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) rose +0.83%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) rose +0.86%. Stock indexes closed higher, supported by Friday’s -2.4% decline in oil prices.  The stock…

Trump Media interim CEO Kevin McGurn on Monday defended his company offering faster access to President Donald Trump‘s Truth Social posts, and said more customers have signed up for the pricey and controversial service. “We’re getting into the mid-teens now, and we’re climbing,” McGurn told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when asked if more companies had started…

All eyes were on the most controversial asset class in America during Commercial Observer’s Data Centers Development and Infrastructure Forum, held Oct. 6 in Midtown Manhattan at the City University of New York Graduate Center.  Experts across data center law, construction, investment and development discussed the past, present and future of the asset class, with…

Owning property is a popular investment choice for many Australians, but it’s also an expensive endeavor. Recent tax office data shows around half of property investors have ‘negatively geared‘ properties – that is, they’re making an overall loss on their investment. But that means the other half of investors own ‘positively geared’ properties and are…

UK annual house price growth remained broadly stable in August at 1.6%, with house prices up 0.2% month on month, according to the latest house price index from Nationwide. Commenting on the figures, Nationwide’s chief economist   Robert Gardner said market activity and house prices had remained subdued in recent months, in part reflecting the uncertain…