FXL News and Press, First Trust Technology AlphaDEX From 03/22/21

As of Friday, March 19th, 2021, Technology was 26.4% of the S&P 500's market cap. While Apple's market cap weight as of Friday, March 19th, 2021 was 5.76% of the S&P 500, the stock's "earnings weight" was 30.2% of the Tech sector. Apple and Microsoft are the Tech sector wi...

Ten years ago, Marc Andreessen wrote an article in the WSJ called ‘Software is eating the world’, arguing that there was a fundamental shift in the role that software plays in the economy. Now, there’s a generation of companies that both create software and use it...

What’s happening in the Tech sector and QQQ is PE compression. For Q4, now fully reported, the “expected” Tech sector growth rate through 12.31.20 was 3% but the actual was 20%. Remember too the stock market and the QQQ action could be discounting increased re...

10-year U.S. Treasury yield. Where is it headed? Will high-flying tech and momentum stocks fly high again? Is this a short-lived sector rotation from tech into value? For further details see: The Great Tech Rotation. Will High-Flying Tech Fly High Again?

Here is the thing that's worrying me the most. I don't like it when others get really bulled up. The tech bubble bust is in its early infancy. Energy stocks are still pretty ridiculous to be priced here. For further details see: What Are My Worries And Where Are We H...

On a year to date basis, again, energy is the top-performing sector up 31.7% followed by financials, communication services, industrials and materials. Year to date, technology continues to slip in performance and is now negative for the year down .7%. The economic data also suppo...

The technology sector is best for growth investors, but could also offer a safe haven for income investors. If you want to find dividend payers among tech stocks, your best bet is in the semiconductor industry. Companies that were once growing rapidly through technology breakthrou...

There are some extraordinary things that are going on that we have not seen in a long, long time. As we think about what the implications for portfolio construction are, we first need to ask ourselves what is the role of the different asset classes in the portfolio. What if inflat...

More tech-heavy momentum names underperforming the cyclical names sensitive to economic growth. Steepening yield curve indicates much stronger growth this year. Craig: With global cases falling and vaccine rollouts, likely to see a mini boom in summer time. For further detai...

Tech is not in a bubble, even if it feels like it is. In a structurally risk-on environment, people aren't looking for reasons not to invest, they're looking for justifications to invest. There's a very real chance that as FAAMG continues to grow, we don't have a major market corr...