Real Estate Shares Are Crushing the S&P 500
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Investors looking to offset tariff pain: REITs would like a word with you.
Since President Donald Trump ordered tariffs that roiled markets in March, real estate investment trusts have delivered returns dwarfing those of benchmark U.S. stock market indexes. The chart below shows the total returns -- returns with dividends reinvested -- of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and a broad-based REIT index, starting at the end of February.