QABA News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund From 03/21/23

2023-03-21 10:32:00 ET Summary With about $500 billion in outflows from the smaller banks, if one were to estimate the total value of all emergency facilities from the Fed and other agencies – even though that number is changing by the day – one can say that the Fed tigh...

2023-03-21 08:33:38 ET Summary QABA invests in community banks across the United States. This ETF appears to outperform during periods of enhanced market sentiment and fear. That said, this is no ordinary time period. QABA is a Sell for now, but I plan to follow this small, un...

2023-03-21 06:53:00 ET Summary Banking turmoil has cast aside the Fed and inflation as the key macro risk. With Q1 earnings just a few weeks away for many large and small Financials sector companies, volatility likely persists in the near term. We spotted one regional bank wit...

2023-03-21 04:20:00 ET Summary Major bank failures are occurring in the US and Europe. Bank failures are common in major recessions, and all fractional reserve banks are at risk. This banking crisis could be worse than the Great Recession. High inflation puts the Fed betwe...

2023-03-21 02:35:00 ET Summary By calling into question the value of a significant portion of the country's bank deposits, the recent failure of one or more regional banks is equivalent to a sudden tightening of monetary policy. If the Fed does not offset this effective tightening...

2023-03-20 15:15:00 ET Summary SVB collapse, consequences, and implications for technology. Role of productivity improvement in addressing inflation. What we learned from industrial tech earnings - identifying focus areas within our macro framework. The collapse of t...

2023-03-20 14:39:00 ET Summary Banking stresses may have tightened conditions enough for policymakers to pause their hiking cycles indefinitely. Inflation started to decline even as economic data seemed to get stronger and stronger. These are signs that the economy and financi...

2023-03-20 09:00:00 ET Summary The Fed's balance sheet will be getting much larger. Europe faces a serious inflation problem. Global markets did not "seize up" this week. It is commonly believed that the "Great Financial Crisis" could have been avoided had the Federa...

2023-03-19 08:21:00 ET Summary The first thing we should emphasize is that the Silicon Valley Bank saga is not, as far as any of the evidence to date suggests, the tip of an iceberg of systemic risk throughout the banking system. Credit Suisse is plugged into the global financial ...

2023-03-19 05:47:00 ET Summary As expected, the sudden failure of SVB rattled global capital markets. Over the past week, investors dramatically changed their expectations of future Fed actions. It remains to be seen how badly the overall economy will be damaged by recent even...