FDL News and Press, First Trust Morningstar From 05/05/22

Verizon’s stock has been annihilated since reporting earning on the 22nd. The company lowered guidance from up slightly to flat for the remainder of 2022. The stock is down nearly 10% in short order. Nonetheless, I feel the selloff is overdone, offering an excellent opportunity...

The map of the Asset Allocation Committee’s market views is a buzz of activity this quarter. Coming into 2022, we anticipated slower growth compared with the steep recovery levels of 2021 and inflation that was declining but persistent—and problematic due to its origins ...

A challenging macro mix is set to make investing a lot more challenging in the years ahead: The share of the world’s population that’s of working age seems to have peaked. Equity beta tells the tale, and helps show how equity-like an asset is. With higher beta comes ...

The Miller Income Strategy returned -10.08% for Q1 2022. As of the middle of April, the market is telling us the economy is still strong, though the rate of growth is now slowing due to overheating and inflation. Red-hot inflation now looks like it is weighing on growth. There...

The stagflation scenario got a little more traction last week with the release of a negative Q1 GDP print on Thursday and hints of more inflation on Friday. April was a really rotten month with everything down but the general commodity indexes. Investing is mostly an exercise in s...

This article series covers 94 U.S. dividend and income ETFs. Use it as a one-stop shop to learn about your favorite fund's performance, risk, concentration, turnover, yield, growth, and more. High Dividend ETFs produced a median loss of 3.17% in April, 5.61% better than SPY. They cont...

While the two more senior historic indices have not confirmed a bear market, retail sentiment for the next six months is extremely bearish. The American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) latest weekly survey summary indicates a 59.4% bearish view. There were 989 new lows for...

AbbVie reported Q122 earnings last night, and there was good and bad news - the bad led to a share price drop of ~10%. Revenues came in a little lower than Street expectations, at $13.54bn, and FY22 EPS was downgraded from $14.00 - $14.20 to $13.92 - $14.12. Nevertheless, forward ...

Only one major asset was up last week: REITs. There were some negative developments that might explain the selling. With the drop in commodities and fears about the impact of the China slowdown, the immediate effect should be for inflation and growth expectations to moderate. We didn&...

We believe the conflict in Ukraine may turn out to be less critical for equity markets than the upcoming turn we anticipate in the economic growth cycle. In the near term, we expect the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) to continue to recover from its March trough. We expect the dis...