DVOL News and Press, First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Low Volatility ETF From 05/31/22

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. still shows robust financial performance. Its fundamentals remain sound without any hint of overspending on acquisition. The recent trend of the stock price appears to be geared downwards. The company has adequate earnings to sustain dividend paym...

Marsh & McLennan is the top insurance broker and a rare example of a successful serial acquirer. Margins have expanded impressively in the last decade, overcoming a soft insurance market most of the time. The insurance market has improved lately, and premium pools are expected...

Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09. The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the yea...

A recession may happen. Lowering your portfolio's beta can protect the huge gains you've racked up since Q1 2020. A way to do this is with low volatility ETFs. I'll present all 28 that I track, but will highlight three high-quality choices that don't get a lot of coverage. These E...

Inflation expectations have kept the Federal Reserve center stage as they commenced their interest rate rising cycle in March. The war in Ukraine and Omicron’s spread in China impacted inflation and supply chains differently, but both delay supply chain normalization. Regar...

Pick any barometer of costs these days, and the story is the same: Prices are up - and in a dramatic fashion. The first thing that jumps out is the dismal performance of most asset classes during periods of low growth and high inflation - otherwise known as stagflation. A solid fo...

First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Low Volatility ETF (DVOL) - $0.0386. Payable Mar 31; for shareholders of record Mar 28; ex-div Mar 25. For further details see: First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Low Volatility ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.0386

Emerging Markets are outperforming the rest of the world, due in large part to windfall profits in the commodities-exporting countries of South America and the Middle East. If you want to follow the money, this is a good place to start. Money has been flowing out of tech, consumer dis...

Larger companies have the advantage of scale, pricing power, greater ability to pass on higher costs to consumers, and stronger negotiating power with suppliers to name a few. Net profit will be an area looked at closely given the potential for multiple Fed rate hikes which will incre...