Rani Molla
A Brexit bounce may lift commercial property in the U.S.
Foreign investors have long considered commercial real estate investments in the U.K. and U.S. to be safe havens in an unpredictable world. Brexit may...
Pain in retail REITs could spread beyond bad malls
Retailers’ pain is spreading to their landlords.
Macy’s, Nordstrom, J.C. Penney and other department stores recently reported another quarter of crummy earnings. They warned...
Marijuana could be Big Tobacco’s next pot of gold
Wine, chocolate -- pot.
If the estimated $45 billion or so of yearly demand for recreational marijuana is in the right ballpark, then more Americans...
How corporate lobbying has changed its shape
Lobbying spending in the United States has stagnated at a little over $3 billion a year ever since the 2008 financial crisis (thanks in...
Smartphones become an alternative to home broadband
Just a decade ago, huge leaps in broadband penetration in U.S. homes made it look like the country was headed toward universal, high-speed Internet...
Baby, it’s warm outside and gas producers feel it
While the Northeast is experiencing an unseasonably warm winter, natural gas companies are praying for cold.
Cold weather, of course, means more demand and higher...
What happens when 3.2M Americans want housing?
The U.S. housing market has a supply problem.
Some 3.2 million potential buyers and renters (read: Millennials and Generation X’ers) face a new housing...