REITs and Bonds have typically traded together.
Due to interest rate sensitivity or more typical recurring cash flows perhaps.
The reason isn't really important to me but the correlation between them is.
And recently they have not been correlated, it's been the opposite.
You can't see it well on this line chart but
$XLRE just attempted to break out of this base and after only one day retreated back below the breakout level.
If REITs can't break out of this base that could be suggesting the market is hawkish.
If that is what's happening I would expect
$TLT to resolve lower and for the two asset classes to once again be correlated.