Improving economy, better job market environment and corporate tax cuts have instilled confidence among consumers of their well-being and promoted healthy capital investments in the first half of the year, helping equity markets in the United States to excel. REITs too managed to pull off a decent performance with occasional hiccups, and the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index gained 3.93% in the first 11 months of 2018, as growth in the economy translated into greater demand for real estate and higher occupancy levels. However, Wall Street has been plagued with adversities, this month, and the broader markets’ initial gains were wiped out amid volatility in oil prices, trade war tensions, tariff impositions on a number of foreign countries, as well as the weakening global economy […]