3 Financial Stocks That Could Be About to Benefit From a Rate Cut

One of the Federal Reserve's mandates is to fight inflation. Recent research from The Motley Fool highlights that inflation has a long history of ravaging the savings of investors and, sometimes, battering the stock market as the buying power of a dollar shrinks over time.Rate cuts help by supporting U.S. economic growth, which leads to positive things, like pay raises. Rate cuts also help businesses like real estate investment trusts (REITs) AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC), W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC), and Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG).AGNC Investment is a mortgage REIT (mREIT), a niche of the broader REIT sector. It doesn't own physical properties but buys mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like securities.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool