In its review of U.S. systemic-risk worries, the IMF yesterday again highlighted REITs. It now has also added what it thinks are troubling new commercial- real-estate structures, pushing regulators to take actions on both fronts to prevent instability spawned by secondary-market expectations that in a crisis could prove unduly optimistic.
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