FEM News and Press, First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX Fund From 10/27/22

Summary With inflationary pressures and recessionary fears remaining top-of-mind, equity managers see no short-term end to the bumpy ride in markets. One of the key risks cited by equity managers in our third-quarter report is the possibility of inflation remaining stuck at high l...

Summary Investment-grade EM borrowers continue to achieve positive demand. Both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Emirates NBD enjoyed healthy demand, further confirming the strong investor sentiment towards stronger GCC credits. Nigeria's debt stress should not currently requir...

Summary Global economic output contracted for a second straight month in September, adding to signs that businesses around the world are reporting the toughest conditions outside of pandemic lockdowns since the global financial crisis. Manufacturing is being hit by rising prices, ...

Summary Over the last two weeks Federal Reserve officials delivered 37 speeches, all of the speakers competing to see who could be the most hawkish. The big problem with the Fed’s plan to kill inflation by reducing economic growth and raising the unemployment rate is that t...

Summary Slower global growth, a strong US dollar, global supply chain woes as well as domestic economic factors have created headwinds for EMs. The week-long National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (Congress) begins on October 16. Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent preside...

Summary Equity market volatility persisted in the third quarter as investors came to terms with a new reality of high inflation and rising interest rates. For most of this year, equity markets have violently traded on this unholy trinity of rising inflation, rate hikes and growth ...

Summary Elevated inflation, currencies, slowing global economic growth expectations, and reduced central bank liquidity remain key economic considerations. Volatility measured by the VIX spiked in September after declining in August. This wall of worry is real, but it is impor...

Summary Emerging markets have seen a sustained period of higher nominal yields over the past 18 months. This backdrop of moderating inflation raises the question of whether there is light at the end of the tunnel for monetary policy tightening. We do not expect cuts in the ver...

Summary Near-term, inflation will remain elevated. We anticipate at least another 100–150 b.p. of tightening from major central banks in the next few months. There are already signs of an economic slowdown globally, but household finances are robust, corporate balance sheet...

Summary Following a decade of turbocharged outperformance in the early 2000s, emerging-market stocks have been mired in a protracted losing streak versus their developed-market peers. Both developed and developing equity markets have been grappling with the extreme economic disloc...