FAUS News and Press, First Trust Australia AlphaDEX Fund From 03/13/20

Australian dollar weakened more than 2% intra-day to a decade low of AUD 0.614/USD. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund, Global news and forex, News on ETFs Read more ...

Last week, international markets rebounded after the previous week's coronavirus selloff. Asia and emerging markets were the big winners. Going forward, expect these markets to continue cautiously firming due to the following fundamental developments: supportive central banks, firming manufact...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the Boards of Trustees of First Trust Canada AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FCAN), First Trust Australia AlphaDEX ® Fund (NYSE Arca: FAUS), First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FHK), and First Trust Sou...

Killing 25 people and leaving thousands homeless, Australia's huge bushfires have already burned through more than 25.5M acres of land and the economic costs are adding up. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equi...

By Robert Carnell, Chief Economist Head of Research, Asia-Pacific , Francesco Pesole, FX Strategist and Petr Krpata, Chief EMEA FX and IR Strategist Speculation that the Reserve Bank of Australia may embark on quantitative easing is growing, although we see no crisis to war...

By Robert Carnell , Chief Economist Head of Research, Asia-Pacific Despite the many arguments for not easing, the RBA has cut rates again by 25bp, taking the official policy rate down to 0.75%. A cut in line with consensus Although this cut was in line with the consensus view, there...

First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announces the declaration of distributions for 129 exchange-traded funds (each a “Fund,” collectively, the “Funds”) advised by FTA. The following dates apply to today's distribution declarations: FTA is a federally register...

In general, Asia is holding up fairly well. The major economies are still expanding, unemployment is low, and consumers are still increasing their rate of consumption. But the trade war is clearly hurting as PMIs are either below 50 or just barely above that level. Industrial production is...

By Erik Norland The Reserve Bank of Australia ((RBA)) and the Australian national government have much to be proud of. For the past 28 years, they have presided over one of the longest continuous economic expansions in recorded history (Figure 1). No developed economy has matched this trac...

By Stephen S. Smith There seems to be a lot of doom and gloom hanging over markets right now, but structurally bullish cases do exist. Australia is one of them. Sure, Australia's economy has slowed, but sluggish growth is currently a global issue. Against a fairly pessimistic backdrop, wha...