FLM News and Press, First Trust Global Engineering and Construction From 02/11/22

The positive result for the AIER Leading Indicators Index suggests continued economic expansion with the potential for a broadening of growth in the economy. Ongoing disruptions to labor supply and production, rising costs and shortages of materials, and logistics and transportation b...

In addition to the Atlanta Fed’s shocking GDP estimate of only 0.1% GDP growth this quarter, many U.S. statistics are turning down, in part due to rising inflation and some recent lockdowns due to COVID. Workers are still quitting in droves. The Labor Department reported that 4...

The key to Industry 4.0 is bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. The good news is there are likely going to be more winners than losers because these are big and growing markets. Another exciting area is dark factories, where you essentially turn the lights off...

A slowing in the worldwide factory sector was signalled in January as the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI fell from 54.3 in December to 53.2, its lowest since October 2020. The survey's output index fell to a greater extent than the headline PMI, reflecting a marked slowing in produ...

The PMI numbers aren’t terrible, but despite where they now are, these are verging closer to comparisons which could be – and several already have been - concerning. The Institute for Supply Management reported a headline of 57.6 for January 2022. That was down 1.2 pts f...

The IHS Markit manufacturing PMI for January showed output growth deteriorating markedly. The ISM output index has averaged 57.5 over the past six years while the IHS Markit index has averaged just 53.4. We remain uncertain as to what has caused the ISM survey to overstate officia...

The goal of the DDM is to quickly and easily utilize available resources of an asset to understand what the intrinsic value of that asset is based on certain market and company expectations. If the required return component of the equation rises without expectations of higher company ...

The Industrial sector – as of this weekend December 24, ’21 – is expected to lead the 11 S&P 500 sectors in terms of S&P 500 EPS growth, and that’s after the sector put up almost 89% growth in 2021. The industrial sector, currently about 7% –...

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The latest IHS Markit US Sector PMI revealed that six of the seven broad sectors tracked by the surveys reported higher output in November. Despite some of the supply chain problems having eased in November, the extent to which production growth had been constrained is consistent with...