Long Jap. equity, short yen has been a good combo for a while. DXJ is a simple way to play it, but how much more juice does that trade have? YTD: EWJ = +11.5%, DXJ = +39.9%.

Barron's LINK1 has an interesting take on Japanese stocks.
INTERNATIONAL. JAPAN (EWJ +22% over 12 months) is an exporter and is not in a rush to raise rates even with current inflation at +3%. Companies have become more shareholder-friendly; the TSE has implemented sanctions on companies whose market-caps are below book value. Japanese stocks may be fine so long as the US economy hold up.
BTW, much of Asia is quiet today - China and HK are closed for the Golder WEEK, and India was closed TODAY for Gandhi's birthday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/buoyant-dollar-pushes-fragile-yen-to-within-striking-distance-of-150.html
Not the time to buy Japanese stocks? Or, just the opposite?

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+1 sma3 especially your last sentence !

LOL -- well, my in-law has 1063 of those 888 million and will probably have them for a looooonnnnggg time. Sometimes I keep a real loser around just to remind myself ... "don't do that again!!" LOL

Nontraded REITs are just that - you cannot trade them on exchanges. There may be periodic redemption windows with long queues, so partial redemptions may be possible. Off-market, one may find a buyer at large haircut. Highlands REIT has 888 MILLION (!) shares outstanding and market-cap $15 million only, so its NAV is also TINY. Don't know beyond its quote.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HHDS/key-statistics?p=HHDS
https://www.highlandsreit.com/

Here are a few private funds accessible to non-accredited folks that invest in student housing...not 100% student housing, but some investments.
https://investment.collabhome.io/properties
https://www.caltier.fund/portfolio/

I am not aware that any remain since BX gobbled up ACC in 2022.
Goodbye to ACC

https://www.multifamilydive.com/news/the-last-public-student-housing-reit-goes-private/624826/

The CR is only 71 pages long, double spaced (25 lines per page). Throwing out the first couple of pages (essentially title pages), and recognizing that it is in three sections each ending with partial pages, there are approximately 68 x 25 = 1700 lines of text.
Not too hard to read through in an hour or so. Especially for legislators who need focus on only sections related to their particular areas of expertise. I, OTOH, have better things to do with my hours.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24001822/house-short-term-spending-bill.pdf

The Continuing Resolution passed is far from a clean bill. it has over 700 pages that the members supposedly to read through them and make a quick vote. As @Old_Joe eluded to, this is another case of kicking the can down the road.
Will see how Moody likes this news on Monday? Will 10 year treasury spike upward next week?

The Washington Post is reporting that-
Today the House of Representatives passed short-term spending bill with bipartisan support after Republicans change course in chaotic morning. In a 335-209 vote, the House passed a continuing resolution that would fund the government for 45 days.
Just hours before a potential government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats reached a deal in the House that includes a 45-day continuing resolution with disaster relief funds, an extension of a federal flood insurance program and FAA reauthorization — but no Ukraine aid.
It was not immediately clear where things stood in the Senate, where a procedural vote on the chamber’s stopgap measure had yet to be called. The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Sunday if a deal is not reached.

+1.
Once you get the hang of it, it is much simpler than it looks with explanations.

I am not aware that any remain since BX gobbled up ACC in 2022.
Goodbye to ACC

Other than Utilities, Real Estate equities are the only other down sector in the 1 year. Medical devices sector (IHI, FSMEX) is near 52-week low.

"Charts are fun".

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915802/000139834423018651/fp0085333-1_497.htm
497 1 fp0085333-1_497.htm
Financial Investors Trust
Vulcan Small Cap Fund
(the "Fund")
Supplement Dated September 29, 2023
To The Summary Prospectus, Prospectus, and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"),
each Dated August 31, 2023
Effective October 1, 2023, each class the Fund will re-open to purchases from new shareholders. Accordingly, the following changes are effective as of such date:
The first paragraph in the "Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares" section of the Summary Prospectus and the Summary Section of the Prospectus is hereby deleted in its entirety.
The first three paragraphs in the "Buying, Exchanging and Redeeming Shares – Buying Shares" section of the Fund's Prospectus are deleted in their entirety.
The fourth paragraph in the "Buying, Exchanging and Redeeming Shares – Buying Shares" section of the Fund's Prospectus is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
"The Vulcan Funds retain the right to limit inflows into the Vulcan Funds."
The second, third, and fourth paragraphs in the "Purchase, Exchange & Redemption of Shares" section of the Fund's SAI are deleted in their entirety.
The fifth paragraph in the "Purchase, Exchange & Redemption of Shares" section of the Fund's SAI is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
"The Vulcan Funds retain the right to limit inflows into the Vulcan Funds."
INVESTORS SHOULD RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE
Fund closed at the close of business November 29, 2013
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/9192/vulcan-value-partners-small-cap-fund-to-close-to-new-investors

Congress will get paid
That's part of the Constitution: Article I, Section 6, Clause 1.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-1/ALDE_00001044/
for no work
There's the problem. The Constitution doesn't require them to actually get anything done. It's aspirational.

Ideally, one would just copy the HTML table (<Table>) from the original page to here and be done, but MFO supports only limited HTML. That doesn't include tables.
However, MFO does support preformatting (<Pre>), so one can copy the whole table as text (including tabs) into a preformatted display, and then fix up a few tabs.
Simple text, no HTML coding (aside from the preformatting tag), no uploading of image to a third party site. That seems simpler to me, but then again, I'm not one to shy away from patching binary code.
Here are the "before" and "cleaned up" versions. All I did was add a newline and a few tabs to space things out evenly.

Top 8 Companies by market cap in the S&P 500 Index	Weight	Gain YTD
1	Apple	AAPL	7.1%	36%
2	Microsoft	MSFT	6.5%	30%
3	Amazon	AMZN	3.2%	45%
4	Nvidia	NVDA	2.9%	192%
5	Alphabet Cl A	GOOGL	2.1%	45%
6	Tesla	TSLA	1.9%	119%
7	Meta Platforms	META	1.9%	134%
8	Berkshire Hathaway Cl B	BRK.B	1.8%	15%
9	Alphabet Cl C	GOOG	1.8%	45%
Total		29.1%	

Top 8 Companies by market cap in the S&P 500 Index	
Weight	Gain YTD
1	Apple			AAPL	7.10%	36%
2	Microsoft		MSFT	6.50%	30%
3	Amazon			AMZN	3.20%	45%
4	Nvidia			NVDA	2.90%	192%
5	Alphabet Cl A		GOOGL	2.10%	45%
6	Tesla			TSLA	1.90%	119%
7	Meta Platforms		META	1.90%	134%
8	Berkshire Hathaway Cl B	BRK.B	1.80%	15%
9	Alphabet Cl C		GOOG	1.80%	45%
Total				29.1%	

Here is the article from https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/traders-wary-volatility-jp-morgan-funds-big-options-trade-looms-2023-09-28/

+1 Thanks @FD1000 :)