QABA News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund From 05/06/23

2023-05-06 02:00:00 ET Summary There is a thread running between the three crises being felt in the US right now. There are a number of indicators that we can track to help assess where we are and where we are likely to get to. The genesis of bank stresses in part reflects the...

2023-05-05 21:30:00 ET Summary Jay Powell couldn’t say outright that the Fed is done with raising rates, but he performed an exceptionally clear pantomime of saying exactly that during the post-FOMC press conference on Wednesday. Powell did sound reasonably upbeat about the...

2023-05-05 13:20:00 ET Summary I do not think our banking crisis is over. Much of this centers on the Fed raising rates too far and too fast, which is causing all kinds of havoc, especially our community and regional banks. All the members of the KBW Bank Index, including some of ...

2023-05-04 15:47:00 ET Summary Why U.S. bank earnings suggest a modest recession? Potential impact of regional bank failures on the broader markets. When it comes to market uncertainty, is reality actually better than perception? The latest U.S. earnings seas...

2023-05-04 12:00:00 ET Summary What are bond markets telling us about future Fed policy? How does the Fed navigate the numerous crosscurrents in the financial markets and economy? What's the outlook on the US dollar? The U.S. Federal Reserve delivers another ...

2023-05-03 23:55:00 ET Summary The collapse of small banks is not surprising. But what’s happening today is accelerating the process. The basic gist of this acceleration is multi-faceted: the government has implicitly supported small banks; and explicitly supported big bank...

2023-05-03 22:03:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 25bp and signalled the threshold for justifying future rate increases is now higher than it was. With lending conditions rapidly tightening in the wake of recent bank stresses, we think this will mark ...

2023-05-03 21:35:00 ET Summary With today’s 25-basis-point rate increase, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has now hiked rates by a cumulative 500 basis points since March of 2022. Whether the Fed hikes rates again in June or goes on pause will likely depend on the labor mark...

2023-05-03 01:36:00 ET Summary Why there may be other small lenders set to fail. The Fed is sticking to plan and focusing on fighting inflation, and nothing else. Are niche banks bearing the brunt of interest rate hikes? JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) has agreed ...

2023-05-02 01:22:00 ET Summary While uncertainty has increased, we believe fundamentals remain largely solid for the U.S. banking sector. Much of what happened in March, and later in the failure of First Republic Bank, was idiosyncratic rather than a “regional bank crisis.&...