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2023-09-22 09:19:14 ET More on First Trust Nasdaq ABA Community Bank ETF Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on First Trust Nasdaq ABA Community Bank ETF Dividend scorecard for First Trust Nasdaq ABA Community Bank ETF For further details see: First Trust NASDAQ&...

2023-09-19 22:50:00 ET Summary Banks have reemerged as a potential pain point for the investment community, as rating agencies recently embarked on a downgrade cycle in the sector. There’s no single cause for these bank downgrades, which means this probably should not be ta...

2023-08-24 02:45:00 ET Summary As an active investment manager, we are constantly monitoring and re-evaluating our holdings to make sure that they continue to track our investment strategies. The technology sector has been dominating this year, in fact it was the driver behind the...

2023-08-23 13:10:00 ET Summary Bank assets and liabilities are at an extreme duration mismatch, where balance sheets are filled with long-duration, low-yielding fixed-income securities and loans, while liabilities are shorter-term than previously anticipated. Significant issues pe...

2023-08-10 01:45:00 ET Summary Recession? Soft Landing? Getting a read on where the US economy is headed hasn’t been easy. We believe that the supply and demand sides of the economy meet at the labor market. And it, though strong by historical standards, has started to soft...

2023-08-01 02:30:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey shows banks are being increasingly restrictive in their lending practices. Households and businesses are wary of taking on additional borrowing. Given how important credit flow is to the US...

2023-07-26 11:50:00 ET Summary While Q1 2023 ended with the banking instability threatening to erase market gains, U.S. equity markets recovered, and the Syntax US 500 Large Cap Index rose 8.9 % in Q2, driven predominantly by an AI-induced rally. Cooling inflation numbers and expe...

2023-07-19 21:32:00 ET Summary Beneath the surface of every economy and society, financial markets ensure that capital flows freely to and from businesses and people. If transparency and liquidity are the heart of a healthy, functioning financial market for all of society, data ar...

2023-07-16 05:30:00 ET Summary Obviously, AI has supercharged the indexes, for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. Small businesses tend to feel the impact of monetary tightening with a lag compared to larger companies. The Fed, although they haven’t come out and said it, t...

2023-07-13 02:35:00 ET Summary Despite a meaningful rally in the second quarter, bank spreads are still wide relative to the broader investment-grade corporate market. In March, the spread differential between the Bloomberg U.S. Investment Grade Banking Index and the Bloomberg U.S...