FHK News and Press, FIRST TR EXCH ALPH From 11/28/19

Following another round of record highs on Wednesday, U.S. futures fell back 0.3% and Asian shares declined, as Hong Kong tensions spoiled the festive trading mood. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund II - First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX Fun...

The Hang Seng index rose 1.6% overnight after pro-democracy forces won 86% of the seats on Hong Kong’s local district councils. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund II - First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX Fund, Franklin Templeton ETF Tr...

The situation in Hong Kong has recently worsened as the protests have become violent. Protesters have resorted to employing Molotov cocktails and primitive weapons such as bricks and bows and arrows along with make-shift catapults. The police may soon start using live ammunition. More than a t...

As political unrest grips the territory, Hong Kong forecast GDP will contract 1.3% in 2019, marking the first annual contraction since the global financial crisis a decade ago. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund II - First Trust Hong Kong ...

The Hang Seng Index sank another 2% on Wednesday as the five-month-old anti-government movement takes an increasingly violent turn. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund II - First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX Fund, Franklin Templeton ETF Trust -...

Traders are closely following the events in Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng Index lost almost 3% after the city's start-of-week commute descended into turmoil as demonstrators tried to block roads and delay trains. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded Alph...

A week ago, when last we "spoke," I talked at length about what I called "the tragicomedy of great expectations." The gist of the discussion was that for all the talk of the US economy "decelerating," things were actually going along fairly well until ISM manufacturing dipped into contrac...

Note: This is based on an article written for the 16th Singapore International Reinsurance Conference. The day I was writing this article, an earthquake measuring 5.8 magnitude shook Istanbul, causing panic amongst residents, evacuation of schools and public offices. It also led to t...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority chopped its policy rate by 25 basis points overnight, tracking the Federal Reserve as obligated to by Hong Kong’s currency peg with the greenback. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund II - First Trust Ho...

Key economic data continues to indicate that China is still slowing. In the video above, Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough and Senior Macro analyst Darius Dale dissect recent credit growth data in China and why the country remains short of U.S. dollars. The reason credit grow...