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Real Estate Mutual Funds And ETFS Suffer From Citicorp Bringing Back Loans Onto Its Books

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Citicorp announced that it was taking back loans that it had sold off to hedge funds; in response, short sellers today took the ax to real estate stocks: the result was seen in a sharp drop in real estate ETFs and Mutual funds.

IYR -3%

Franklin Real Estate Securities A, FREEX, -3%, -7% for the week



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