FCA News and Press, First Trust China AlphaDEX Fund From 01/17/26

2026-01-17 00:50:00 ET By Elior Manier Week in review: Geopolitical turmoil pursues The week opened on a nasty surprise: the Department of Justice started an investigation against the Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell quickly responded in an unusual add...

2026-01-15 09:29:00 ET By Rohit Goel, CFA and Apoorv Bhargava After more than a decade of US market dominance, 2025 may have marked a turning point for global investors. International equities have surged ahead of their US counterparts, evidenced by strong earnings growth and su...

2026-01-14 06:00:00 ET Trade between the U.S. and China has been almost fully cut in half since its October 2021 peak. The latest available trade data for October 2025 reveals the combined value of all goods exchanged between the two nations stood at $32.8 billion, which compares with t...

2026-01-14 02:00:00 ET By Lynn Song , Chief Economist, Greater China December exports shake off frontloading base effect to rebound at year end China’s exports grew by 6.6% year-on-year in December, up from 5.9% in November, beating...

2026-01-10 06:00:48 ET For the Week: The S&P 500 gained 16% (up 1.8% y-t-d), and the Dow rose 2.3% (up 3.0%). The Utilities fell 1.5% (down 0.5%). The Banks advanced 2.1% (up 3.9%), and the Broker/Dealers gained 2.2% (up 3.8%). The Transports jumped 3.7% (up 4.8%). The S&...

2026-01-10 02:00:00 ET Emerging markets rebounded in 2025, outperforming U.S. and global equities as easing inflation, supportive policy and AI-led innovation drove a durable shift toward renewed leadership. ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details ...

2026-01-10 00:30:00 ET By Elior Manier Week in review: Geopolitical Turmoil on the Menu Traders have returned to their desks, and volumes are finally normalizing after a holiday period that was anything but boring. Connecting back to the end-December trading, metals rode a r...

2026-01-10 00:00:00 ET Regular readers of our weekly column will know that we put very little stock in the flood of predictions made by investment houses large and small as the New Year gets underway. Who knows where the S&P 500 or the MSCI All World Index will be eleven and a half ...

2026-01-09 23:15:00 ET By Lynn Song , Chief Economist, Greater China China's consumer price index inflation rose 0.8% year-on-year in December to a 34-month high, bringing the full-year CPI to 0.0%. This indicates that China avoided deflation in 2025. Inflation has shown s...

2026-01-09 09:45:00 ET The Macro Picture While the calendar will reset as 2025 turns into 2026, the global economy does not change just because the year does. Indeed, our outlook for the first part of 2026 is very little changed from what we saw in late 2025. We continue to believe ...