Alena Botros

Alena Botros is a former reporter at Fortune, where she primarily covered real estate. Alena was an editorial fellow at Fortune for a year prior to joining as a staff writer. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

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  • NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 25: FundStrat Global Advisors Managing Partner Tom Lee speaks onstage at Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit on October 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Yahoo)Finance

    A top forecaster sees the market bottoming as Wall Street raises recession forecasts over Trump tariffs

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  • Washington, DC – March 11 : President Donald J Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to reporters while looking at various models of Teslas on the South Lawn at the White House on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Finance

    The housing market now has more ‘downside risks’: layoffs from DOGE and the trade war

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  • Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 31, 2023. A key gauge of US inflation rose last month by less than expected and consumer spending stabilized, suggesting the Federal Reserve may be close to ending its most aggressive cycle of interest-rate hikes in decades. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Boston Fed president says tariff-induced inflation ‘looks inevitable.’ She suspects the central bank will hold rates steady for longer

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  • AUSTIN, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 12: Customers shop for produce at an H-E-B grocery store on February 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas. The Labor Department is expected to report today on January prices as measured by the consumer-price index, with a separate report on wholesale prices delivered tomorrow. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)Finance

    The vibecession is back. But a change in mood about the economy is often ‘a harbinger of things to come’: a drop in consumer spending and business investment, economist says

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 21: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One at the White House on March 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Bedminster, New Jersey and is expected to attend the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Wrestling Championship in Philadelphia tomorrow. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Finance

    Zonda’s chief economist never thought Trump, the only real estate mogul-turned-president, would place tariffs on building materials when housing is already so unaffordable. She was wrong

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  • US President Donald Trump during a US ambassadors meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Trump directed the Treasury Department to modernize and centralize its payment system in an effort to root out fraud as money is transferred throughout the federal government. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Trump tariffs are ‘a recipe for making Americans worse off,’ Cato Institute says

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  • Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York City on March 24, 2025. Stock markets mostly rose on Monday as worries about fresh US tariffs pencilled in for next week were tempered by hopes that US President Donald Trump was considering a more targeted approach. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Citi Wealth chief investment officer says she would not put any more money in stocks right now

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  • Photo illustration by Fortune; Original photos by Getty Images (2)Finance

    Wells Fargo says home sales aren’t far off from levels seen in the wake of the Great Recession

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  • Stuart A Miller, Lennar Corporation, CEO, is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Finance

    CEO of $30 billion homebuilding empire sees ‘weaker-for-longer’ housing market as consumer confidence plummets

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 12: U.S. President Donald Trump answers reporters’ questions while hosting Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin in the Oval Office at the White House on March 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. Martin is visiting the United States for the Irish leader’s annual St. Patrick’s Day visit where he met with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of a St. Patrick’s Day luncheon with Congressional leaders. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Politics

    Trump drops executive order stripping a law firm of its government contracts after he says it pledged $40 million in pro bono legal services to his administration’s causes

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 19: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers remarks at a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting at the Federal Reserve on March 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Despite uneasiness in global markets, Powell announced that the central bank’s benchmark interest rate will remained unchanged at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Finance

    Jerome Powell doubles down on a word that has haunted him, saying pain from tariffs would be ‘transitory’

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  • US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Billionaire Elon Musk threw his weight behind a US exit from NATO, saying on his social media platform that it “doesn’t make sense for America to pay for the defense of Europe.” Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    New home construction is stalling as homebuilder sentiment sours over Trump’s tariffs, economists say

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 5: White House Senior Advisor to the President and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk departs the U.S. Capitol Building on March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk was meeting with Republican senators at a closed door lunch. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Finance

    The true genius of Elon Musk is his ‘subsidy harvesting strategy,’ political science professor says

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  • Living room in Multi-Family Housing ConstructionFinance

    A victim of potential housing department cuts: domestic violence survivors who need homes

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 13: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters outside the West Wing after doing a television interview on the North Lawn of the White House on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Bessent stopped to speak to reporters briefly and took a question on tariffs and voiced his concerns about a potential government shutdown. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Finance

    Scott Bessent says the U.S. economy is detoxing but that doesn’t mean there will be a recession: ‘I’m not concerned about a little bit of volatility over three weeks’

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