HYLS News and Press, First Trust Tactical High Yield ETF From 06/19/23

2023-06-19 07:05:00 ET Summary Last week, the Fed announced that it was not going to raise interest rates. The media and pundits proclaimed that this would send a false signal of a new bull market. We saw a substantial increase in trading volume compared to the rather low transact...

2023-06-14 12:54:05 ET Ken Griffin, whose Citadel hedge fund generated a record $16B for investors last year, is boosting credit trading in anticipation of a U.S. recession, according to a media report. He expects the world's largest economy to slip into a recession next year, and w...

2023-06-07 06:20:00 ET Summary The yield of the U.S. high yield market, as measured by the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index, has been in the 8-9% range for much of the last year, and was close to 9% as of May 31, 2023. A number of sophisticated investors understand that the potentia...

2023-06-05 06:30:00 ET Summary Nvidia increased their revenue guidance for the July ’23 quarter. Data center revenue and EPS guidance for the fiscal Q2 for NVDA saw sell-side analysts boost the fiscal ’24 EPS estimate by 69% and the revenue estimate by 41%. High-grad...

2023-06-02 21:30:00 ET Summary Cooler heads prevail over debt ceiling but are there broader implications? Recession vs resilience: Finding opportunities in a cautious market. Why fixed income still may provide opportunities for investors. The bill to rais...

2023-06-02 12:12:31 ET Summary First Trust Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund ETF invests in 5 categories of high-yield securities. Historical performance is close to competitors. It has suffered large losses in inflation-adjusted value and distributions. Bonus: how...

2023-05-24 04:00:00 ET Summary Breakeven inflation has come down quite significantly at this point. It would really be stress within banking that I think would move the Fed's hand this year. Non-bank financials will really benefit from what's going on in the banking sector. ...

2023-05-19 10:20:00 ET Summary Valuations have a strong predictive relationship with future returns of risky assets like equities and high yields. We analyze this relationship for both US equity and US high yield credit, at the index level. US equities and US high yield credits ar...

2023-05-19 02:20:00 ET Summary Parking your fixed-income assets in cash may seem like a safe choice in today’s volatile investing environment, but it’s actually a risky proposition. The odds of meeting your investment goals over any reasonable horizon are much poorer...

2023-05-16 23:05:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve’s latest 0.25% interest rate hike has likely capped one of its most aggressive policy-tightening cycles in 40 years. Core inflation, which excludes the more volatile energy and food prices, remains historically high, but ha...