FEM News and Press, First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX Fund From 07/20/23

2023-07-20 03:20:00 ET Summary Flexible exchange rates and anchored inflation expectations can alleviate the effects of a strong dollar. The US dollar’s strengthening last year to a 20-year high had major implications for the global economy. In emerging market economies...

2023-07-18 08:00:00 ET Summary Concerns about the debt of overexposed sectors of U.S. commercial real estate have grown. Investors might be switching their attention from concerns about inflation and monetary policy to optimism about nominal growth. Downward pressure could com...

2023-07-17 12:57:00 ET Summary A few weeks ago, it appeared to me that stocks were starting a correction. I was clearly wrong about that as the S&P 500 and NASDAQ have moved higher since then and the rally has broadened out. Small cap, real estate, and commodities continue to ...

2023-07-17 11:10:00 ET Summary We favor emerging market to developed market assets on a brighter macro backdrop. We get granular and harness mega forces, per our playbook. U.S. bond yields slumped last week on softer CPI inflation data. We think still-tight labor markets will comp...

2023-07-15 02:20:00 ET Summary We wrap up our mid-year review of recent asset price trends with a look at non-US equities. Non-US equities have certainly had periods of outperformance, including – for a very brief while – earlier this year. For most of January, i...

2023-07-14 03:10:00 ET Summary RAFI Emerging Markets Large Company Index outperforms due to market volatility and emphasis on value-oriented companies. Combining different index approaches can help investors achieve their risk and return objectives. Index methodology plays a c...

2023-07-12 21:25:00 ET Summary Emerging markets have been adopting new technologies, which solve existing challenges, raise productivity and reflect changing consumption patterns. During the first half of 2023, 72% of the gains and six out of the 10 largest contributors to the gai...

2023-07-11 00:45:00 ET Summary Global equity markets have had a very strong first half of the year, but it’s pretty unusual times because on the one hand, equities are contending with a pretty difficult macro backdrop. We’ve still got high inflation. We’ve got...

2023-07-07 03:19:00 ET Summary Growth in government debt has been a key driver of post-pandemic inflation in advanced economies. Monetary policies, while certainly accommodative, appear to have been less of a factor. In response to the pandemic, central banks slashed interest rate...

2023-07-05 01:20:00 ET Summary The US economy has remained remarkably resilient in the face of repeated shocks, most recently the regional bank turmoil in March. China’s economy disappointed our, and the market’s, expectations in 2Q. In contrast to other major econom...