FHK News and Press, FIRST TR EXCH ALPH From 04/01/20

Our basic coronavirus problem Of course the basic, basic, problem is about health care and epidemiology but that's not the point for us here as investors. Rather, we're interested in the macroeconomic effects for that then tells us when markets in general, thus stock markets, are going to ge...

Hong Kong has announced $120B Hong Kong dollars ($15.4B) worth of measures to support an economy that’s been dragged down by political unrest and the new coronavirus outbreak. More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund II - First Trust Hong...

"Infections that are now emerging in people who haven't traveled to China or come into contact with confirmed cases show it's not clear how the virus is spreading,” said Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization. "We're seeing some cases that don't have a clear ...

"The actual impact of this [coronavirus] epidemic on Hong Kong's economy is quite large, and may be higher than the impact of SARS on the economy in 2003," Financial Secretary Paul Chan wrote in a blog post . More news on: iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF, First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX F...

Originally Posted February 03, 2020 China has been a major contributor to global growth, and its economic activity tends to have significant repercussions for the global economy. To understand where the Chinese economy is in its growth cycle, the two charts below are perhaps the only chart...

Estimating how long China's new coronavirus epidemic will last, and when it will peak, is obviously of great importance to investors at present for assessing the economic damage it is likely to cause, both to China's economy and the global economy. Estimating the likely impact the virus will h...

China’s coronavirus is a health crisis that seems likely to translate into an economic crisis for the Asian nation and possibly even the rest of the world. The virus began in Wuhan, and has infected thousands of people across China. The World Health Organization has declared the ...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the Boards of Trustees of First Trust Canada AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FCAN), First Trust Australia AlphaDEX ® Fund (NYSE Arca: FAUS), First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FHK), and First Trust Sou...

The effects of the coronavirus outbreak in China, specifically the actions taken by governments and certain private sector companies to contain the spread of the respiratory ailment, are being felt across a wide swath of the globe's economy. More news on: Tekla World Healthcare Fund, Bla...

A hefty dose of back-to-work blues plagued Hong Kong traders today as trading resumed after the Lunar New Year break. More news on: Hang Lung Properties Limited, Country Garden Holdings Company Limited, Sands China Ltd., , Top stock market news, Global news and forex, News on ETFs, Rea...