QABA News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund From 04/11/23

2023-04-11 05:30:00 ET Summary As long as banks have existed, banks have failed, just like other companies have failed, even the most splendid ones. Special servicing rates are a precursor for potential defaults for CRE mortgages that have been securitized into CMBS. CRE is un...

2023-04-11 04:38:00 ET Summary The employment report came out on Good Friday when the stock market was closed, but the futures market did trade for another 45 minutes after the report came out. There has been a sharp decline in Commercial and Industrial loans, in addition to the f...

2023-04-07 02:00:00 ET Summary We examine the genesis of the gap between bank deposits and loans. Small bank loan books represent a greater proportion of deposits relative to large banks. This is fine and quite different from Silicon Valley Bank. The outsized exposure of small...

2023-04-05 07:56:00 ET Summary Global equities were volatile in the first quarter, as turmoil in the banking sector jolted markets. While swift regulatory action helped stem contagion, the crisis dented investor confidence in a fragile market environment and has sharpened awarenes...

2023-04-05 03:30:00 ET Summary U.S. Bancorp, the largest regional bank in the US with roughly $600B in assets, confirmed a Q1 earnings date of April 25, the latest Q1 report date in our 20 year history of data. The April 25th date is a week later than anticipated, and disturbs a l...

2023-04-04 15:36:00 ET Summary At the beginning of last year, interest rates stood at 0% and today the benchmark interest rate stands at 5.0%. The S&P 500 rose +3.5% last month, and the technology-heavy NASDAQ index catapulted even more (+6.7%). But not everyone escaped unscat...

2023-04-04 03:30:00 ET Summary This banking crisis may be past its peak, but the bad news is that it is surely not over as there is a flight of deposits out of banks and into money market mutual funds that SVB’s failure simply accelerated. The differing effect on inflation ...

2023-04-04 03:05:00 ET Summary Many of last winter’s biggest worries don’t look so bad in the spring. The few big bank failures didn’t explode into a massive bank run. The solution to un-stressing the banking system is simple: the Fed has to un-invert the Trea...

2023-04-04 03:00:00 ET Summary The failures of two U.S. regional banks and the forced takeover of a large Swiss bank in March rattled people. The currency system, and the banking system, are ultimately based on confidence. When that trust breaks down, really bad things happen. Whe...

2023-04-04 01:27:43 ET Summary Silicon Valley Bank's failure to raise funds exhibits the growing non-marketability of existing long-dated U.S. debt. Instead of foreign institutions, U.S. institutions bear the greatest exposure to this growing effective markdown. The instabilit...