FTXO News and Press, First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF From 02/21/22

Non-U.S. markets, including EM, DM, and Asia, are outperforming the U.S. markets after underperforming last year. After slightly underperforming growth last year, value is where the money is flowing. With the economy still in growth mode, cyclical stocks should do better than defe...

A good way to build wealth is to invest a large sum of money in a couple of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for not just years but potentially even decades. With ETFs, you can get some excellent diversification without having to own individual stocks or worry about how individual businesses ar...

The growing US debt will impact our children’s assets and the future value of what our grandchildren inherit. It would be prudent to expect taxes of all sorts to increase. Increased taxes will lower the reported earnings of companies and will probably delay dividend increases. ...

For investors who want to earn a reasonable return without taking excessive risks, diversification still works, and we think you’re going to need more of it this year. The weighing of the high-flyers is not over. Commodities had another good week, and the 1-year return is getti...

An unloved industry for years, global banking shows signs of a pronounced turnaround. Breadth is strong among global banking stocks. Valuation and sharply better fundamentals make the case for continued outperformance. For further details see: Global Banking Shows Signs ...

Hunter: U.S. banks started and then finished the year trading around 13x earnings. Hunter: Cumulative operating profit for the top 3 U.S. banks topped $27 billion once again, up about 15% YoY. Hunter: The issue we're watching right now is expenses; if costs & investments incre...

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 ...

Taking into account the Fed comments from last week, recently one of our technical analysts forecasted a correct S&P Index price range of $4,348 to $4,261. The market has since corrected to that level and is now bouncing. The analysis of the broad stock market shows signs of i...

First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF (NASDAQ:FTXO) - $0.1840. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.72% as of Aug. 31. Payable Dec 31; for shareholders of record Dec 27; ex-div Dec 23. For further details see: First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.1840

Banks have had a very good year in 2021 and a lot of the record performances achieved can be directly connected with the largess of the Federal Reserve System. In the next five years, the banking industry is going to change in major ways and the large banks, flush with money, will be ...