FTXO News and Press, First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF From 02/06/24

2024-02-06 08:03:00 ET Summary US banks continue to tighten lending standards and expect loan quality to deteriorate with write-offs anticipated to rise through 2024. At the same time, loan demand continues to weaken. The economy performed very strongly through the second half...

2024-02-05 22:35:00 ET Summary It is normal to see huge swings in bonds and stocks on a day when the Fed Chairman releases his FOMC statement and holds a press conference. What is far from normal, however – although we have seen it occasionally – is to see a sharp se...

2024-02-03 09:18:00 ET Summary The capital regulation plan known as Basel III Endgame is a critical topic that has dominated conversations among banks for months and continues to be a focal point into the new year. Developers of clean energy and infrastructure projects often depen...

2024-01-30 00:06:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2024-01-16 04:50:00 ET Summary Why US banks could be poised for a rebound? Sectors primed for a pivot if the Fed cuts. The outlook for healthcare and real estate. The potential for interest rate cuts this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve is raising the outlook for ...

2024-01-08 22:35:00 ET Summary Many months ago it became abundantly clear that the Fed had extinguished the inflation fires that were stoked in 2020-21, and therefore lower interest rates were called for. More recently, we see that the economy has lost a lot of its forward momentu...

2024-01-06 12:30:00 ET Summary Following the failure of several prominent banks, financial sectors remained largely resilient in 2023. This upheaval prompted sizeable support measures from the Federal Reserve. The same factors that supported stability in 2023 remain in force f...

2024-01-04 11:15:00 ET Summary In this 2023 year-end sector review (part 1), we look at how companies performed during 2023 in the communications services, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, and financial services sectors. After a bad year in 2022, the consumer disc...

2023-12-31 08:00:00 ET Summary This 2023 Year in Review is focused on the riveting “Year of Treasury Debt, Money Market Fund Intermediation, Repos and the ‘Basis Trade’." But by their nature, markets are prone to speculative excess and boom and bust dynamics. ...

2023-12-25 10:05:00 ET Summary As 2024 comes into view, let’s take stock of the more important developments we saw through 2023 – and what they could mean moving forward. The year started out with a massive run-up in treasury yields that began in mid-2020, nearly res...