COINDESK - 18 September 2020: "What is DeFi?"

With the explosive growth of yield farming over the past few months DeFi is now proving to be a major milestone in financial history.  However, with the pace of these developments, we know it's difficult to stay current. Alyssa Hertig has published a DeFi primer on Coindesk titled "What is Defi?"

CBRE Econometric Advisors’ latest long-term outlook for U.S. multifamily rental housing indicates the net gain in occupied units—from 15.4 million in Q2 2020 to 17.4 million in Q2 2030—represents an 11.6% demand increase in the 66 metro markets.

The new demand will bolster multifamily’s dynamic investment environment and create new opportunities for buyers of all types. It will create significant opportunities for developers. Steady increases in demand over the decade will generate revenue for large-to-small multifamily property owners across America.

The outlook assumes tepid market demand into early 2021; a year of recovering demand following that, and steady gains thereafter. The favorable long-term outlook should help owners and operators to weather the current storm, knowing that the sector’s COVID-19 challenges will be relatively short term and more promising conditions should be sustained after that.

Read more here: https://www.cbre.com/investor-hub/

US property was already an attractive opportunity fro European investors, from a performance standpoint, and now it's getting better.  From today's Reuters article:

BENGALURU (Reuters) - 6 Aug 2020 - The dollar’s supremacy of well over two years has turned sharply and the current downward trend will continue into next year on expectations the U.S. economic recovery is flagging, especially compared to Europe, buttressing the euro, a Reuters poll showed.

A surge in coronavirus cases across several U.S. states and some data pointing to an economic recovery losing steam pushed the dollar index .DXY down 4.1% in July, its biggest monthly percentage fall in a decade.

That was reflected in the latest positioning data, which showed speculators increased their bets against the dollar to the highest in nine years and at the same time raised their bets in favor of the euro to the highest on record. 

Read more here:  https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-forex-poll-dollar/u-s-dollar-headed-lower-in-retreat-against-the-euro-reuters-poll-idUSKCN25200W

Congratulations to Ali, Mattia, Marcel, Olga, Duncan and the rest of the team for launching the new Bitcoin Capital cryptocurrency exchange-traded product, or ETP on the Swiss SIX Exchange, one of the world’s largest stock exchanges,

Watch the opening ceremony at the Swiss SIX exchange where Ali Mizani Oskui and Dr. Mattia Rattaggi ring the opening bell