Commercial REIT Stocks Stage Retreat

"Investors had pushed up the stocks of real-estate investment trusts on Friday and Monday as the federal government moved to stabilize the reeling agencies. The Dow Jones Equity REIT Index -- which tracks the stock of 116 REITs -- gained nearly 4.7% from Thursday's close to Monday's after a 10.9% drop in the previous year. But the index retreated by 4.1% on Tuesday as investors started fretting about Fannie and Freddie perhaps scaling back their mortgage portfolios under the government's watch."