FXZ News and Press, First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund From 07/26/21

Year over year, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 4.2% in April, 5.0% in May, and 5.4% in June. Fading re-opening enthusiasm or the drying up of government stimulus checks could be factors in the sluggish growth numbers compared to prior month. Bond and equity markets indicated ...

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Consumer Services climb to the top performing sector in May. Supply constraints limit output for basic material and consumer good sectors. Broadly positive economic conditions point to further closing in on the removal of accommodative policy. For further details see: U....

The intention of the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum was to stop the long-term decline of the US steel industry by protecting domestic producers from low-cost imports. However, the strategy shifted a substantial cost to steel consumers, who employ far more workers than the s...

The market has pressed to new all-time highs, and in the near term there is little to dampen optimism - the economy continues to strengthen, bolstered by monetary and fiscal stimulus, improving corporate investment and strong retail consumption. If anything has weighed on investors in...

Diversification remains key. Flexible strategies can also take advantage of a more uncertain yield and spread environment. We continue to find reasonable opportunity in both public and private credit markets. We find value in non-agency mortgages and prefer cyclicals to growth sto...

With greater clarity on the sustainability of the economic recovery, we also saw the opportunity set across markets broaden to include sectors beyond those seen as the primary beneficiaries of an economic reopening. As expected, the recovery hasn't been smooth sailing for all, with su...

The pace of recovery has begun to diverge across economies, with vaccination progress and the scale of government stimulus among the biggest swing factors. Macro disparities have also begun filtering into EPS growth expectations. Cyclically sensitive sectors have dominated the upg...

The expected 21Q1 earnings growth rate is currently 24.2%, which has increased from 16.0% at the beginning of the year. All but two sectors have seen positive revisions to 21Q1 growth expectations since the beginning of the year. In 2021, we expect to see a year of high expectatio...

This is a giant bill, and only 39% of it is for infrastructure. Another 29% is industrial policy, the rest housing, healthcare and labor policy. I provide a detailed breakdown of the bill and the macro context behind it. Opportunities abound. I will follow up in the coming week wi...