FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 07/27/23

FICO’s Score A Better Future event encourages people to understand credit and how to set themselves up to successfully meet their financial goals Global analytics firm, FICO (NYSE: FICO), will host a free Score A Better Future credit education event on August 2, 2023. The eve...

2023-07-27 02:35:00 ET Summary Builders have to build and sell homes, no matter what the market conditions. More price cuts may be needed to get this moving. The median price of new single-family houses sold in June dipped to $415,400, down by 16% from the peak in October 2022, an...

FICO (NYSE:FICO), a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, will announce its third quarter fiscal 2023 results on August 2, 2023, after the market closes and will host a conference call on August 2 nd at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (4:00 p.m. Central/ 2:00 p.m. Paci...

2023-07-26 15:22:58 ET Summary After 4 straight months in the red, the REIT sector surged back into the black year to date with a stellar +7.41% total return in June. Small cap REITs (+8.59%) outperformed again in June. Large caps (+5.51%) again underperformed their smaller REIT p...

2023-07-25 03:29:00 ET Summary Economic resilience has continued through the first half of 2023, primarily driven by strong household balance sheets, strong wage growth. The leading indicators of coincident and lagging economic data suggest we should see hard data points like indu...

2023-07-23 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets extended their "disinflation rally" this week after European inflation data mirrored encouraging trends observed domestically, while economic data and earnings results were consistent with a "soft landing" trajectory. Posting its ...

FICO recognized for market-leading enterprise fraud management excellence by the research firm Global analytics software firm FICO (NYSE: FICO) today announced that it has been named a category leader for enterprise fraud solutions for the fourth year in a row in Chartis’ Ent...

FICO partners with U.S. Soccer Foundation and City of College Park to offer financial educational resources to attendees Global analytics firm, FICO (NYSE:FICO), will host a free Score A Better Future credit education event on July 25, 2023, to provide Atlanta and surrounding area resid...

Blockchain for AI Model Governance tracks development, operationalization and monitoring of machine learning models to enforce Responsible AI practices FICO has been named one of The Innovators 2023 for its use of blockchain to manage and monitor AI development. The 11 th annual awa...

2023-07-20 00:30:00 ET Summary After a blockbuster report for May where Housing Starts and Building Permits both surged, there was a bit of a reality check in June. While Building Permits were expected to come in at 1.50 million, the actual reading came in at 1.44 million represen...