Industrial REIT's

ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) announced today that on March 17 it closed on a TMK bond secured financing totaling 13 billion yen ($157 million). Proceeds from the financing were used to pay down ProLogis' global line of credit. Tokutei Mokuteki Kaisha is a tax-favored, special-purpose securitization...

Shares of First Industrial Realty Trust (NYSE: FR) are higher on the session by 3.04%, currently trading at $11.85. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...

iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSE: GAZ) traded higher today, along with natural gas futures. GAZ gained 4.68"%, and closed at $8.40. Direxion Daily China Bull 3x Shares ETF (NYSE :CZM) jumped 4.07% on Wednesday. CNOOC Limited (ADR) (NYSE: CEO) is a component of the...

First Potomac Realty Trust (NYSE: FPO) today announced that it has acquired 840 First Street, NE, a fully-leased, Class A office building adjacent to Union Station in Washington, D.C. This is the fourteenth property the firm has acquired since late 2009.

EastGroup Properties, Inc. (NYSE: EGP) today announced that it has entered into sales agency financing agreements with BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC and Raymond, James & Associates, Inc. pursuant to which it will issue and sell shares of its common stock from time to time as provided in the...

AMB Property Corporation® (NYSE: AMB) today provided an update on its platform in Japan. The company confirms that all AMB employees and customers are safe and uninjured. AMB plans to reopen its Tokyo office on Tuesday, March 22, which had been closed due to transportation disruptions and...

Cusick's Corner The Japanese yen set a record high against the dollar yesterday. The Federal Reserve and the other G7 central banks took action – they coordinated plans to intervene in the currency markets to help weaken the yen in order to reverse part of the rally that has happened since the...

Friday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders 1. Citigroup (NYSE: C) 261,511 contracts, 65.1% calls, 34.9% puts2. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 261,189 contracts, 47.7% calls, 52.3% puts3. Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) 222,750 contracts, 65.7% calls, 34.3% puts4. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 140,758 puts, 68....

Stifel Nicolaus has upgraded ProLogis Trust (NYSE: PLD) from Hold to Buy and has established a $16.50 price target.

Analysts at Stifel Nicolaus upgrade AMB Property Corporation (NYSE: AMB) from “hold” to “buy.” AMB shares fell 0.15% to close at $33.36 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

J.P. Morgan is adjusting its estimates on First Industrial Realty Trust (NYSE: FR). “We have adjusted our normalized 2011 and 2012 FFO estimates to $0.82 and $0.83/share from $0.85 and $0.82/share, respectively,” J.P. Morgan writes. “We note that our 2011 FFO estimate diverges from our reported FFO...

First Potomac Realty Trust (NYSE: FPO), a leading owner of office and industrial properties in the greater Washington, D.C. region, today announced that it will hold its 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 19, 2011 at its corporate offices. Shareholders of record as...

Shares of DuPont Fabros Technology (NYSE: DFT) are lower on the session by 1.07%, trading at $23.20. Overall call volume is now running at 3.19x the daily average, with 52% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,020 contracts have traded on the session so far. DuPont Fabros...

DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT) today announced the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Hossein Fateh, is scheduled to participate in a roundtable discussion at the Citi 2011 Global Property CEO Conference in Hollywood, Florida.

Shares of DuPont Fabros Technology (NYSE: DFT) are lower on the session by 1.22%, currently trading at $23.46. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past three months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...