Data Centers Have Become the Hottest — and Most Contested — Category in Real Estate
AI-driven data center demand has made grid power capacity, not land, the key constraint in commercial real estate — and communities near proposed sites are increasingly pushing back on resource use.
How Big Investors Buying Single-Family Homes Are Reshaping Local Housing Markets
Institutional investors have grown from a niche post-crisis strategy into a real presence in some housing markets, and their concentrated buying is drawing fresh scrutiny over local affordability effects.
Why Millions of Homeowners Are Refusing to Sell, Even as Prices Stay High
Homeowners locked into low mortgage rates are staying put rather than trading up to a much higher rate, keeping existing home inventory unusually tight even as overall demand has cooled.
Cities Are Betting on Office-to-Apartment Conversions to Fix Two Problems at Once
Downtown office vacancies remain stubbornly high years after remote work took hold, and cities are betting on residential conversions to solve both that problem and housing shortages at once.
How Retail Options Trading Became a Force Professional Desks Track Closely
Retail options trading has grown large enough to move short-term stock prices, and professional trading desks now build dedicated models just to track it.
High-Yield Bond Spreads Are Historically Tight. Is That a Warning Sign?
High-yield bond spreads have narrowed to unusually tight levels, and analysts are split on whether that reflects genuinely healthier corporate balance sheets or a market untested by a real downturn.
Why Copper Has Become the Metal Everyone in Markets Is Watching
Copper demand from electrification and data centers is colliding with a mine supply pipeline that takes years to expand, and analysts increasingly describe the gap as structural rather than temporary.
Does It Still Make Sense to Call Markets ‘Efficient’ When Most Money Is Passive?
Passive index funds now control a majority of assets in several major markets, reviving academic debate over whether markets are still pricing stocks as efficiently as they used to.
Why a Handful of Stocks Are Driving Most of the Market’s Gains
A handful of mega-cap companies now drive an outsized share of major index returns, and investors are debating whether that concentration is a feature of the market or a risk hiding in plain sight.
Home Insurance Is Disappearing From the Riskiest Corners of the Housing Market
Insurers in several disaster-prone regions have stopped writing new home policies entirely, leaving homeowners to rely on shrinking state-backed...