QQEW News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Fund From 01/01/24

2024-01-01 11:26:00 ET Summary Here's my list of 10 potential surprises for investors in 2024. Note they are not expected, but should be respected as possibilities. I'm as optimistic as anyone when a new year starts, but I insist on looking both ways before I cross the street as a...

2023-12-28 11:30:00 ET Summary The 2024 slowdown will probably not be a recession, though that’s certainly a possibility. Yield curve inversion is one of the best leading indicators, measuring whether short-term interest rates exceed long-term rates. Despite the general...

2023-12-28 04:30:00 ET Summary As all students of economics should have learned, prices are set at the margin by the intersection of supply and demand. The surge in the demand for currency has almost completely reversed from its early-covid levels. Corporations are not struggl...

2023-12-25 12:20:00 ET Summary Markets have embraced the soft landing. It is always worth asking in such a situation whether this is a case of markets buying the rumour and selling the fact. Even if the soft landing trade loses a few steps in the next few weeks, the shift in senti...

2023-12-23 15:30:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-12-20 04:57:00 ET Summary Some FOMC members saw two cuts, some saw four – based on dot plots – so three, more or less, marks the middle. Emerging markets have lagged developed markets quite dramatically as the U.S. dollar has rallied, along with the Fed’s...

2023-12-20 03:08:00 ET Summary In recent years, investors prospered by selling stocks and going to cash in early 2019, avoiding the eventual market downturn and recession in 2020. Since November, the run-up in asset prices has been stunning. Such is particularly the case given the...

2023-12-15 10:40:00 ET Summary Unemployment fell to 3.6% in March 2022. Now it’s 3.7%. If it’s still relatively low in March 2025, and if inflation has fallen close to the Fed’s 2% target, then the US will have achieved its first ever soft landing. In the ...

2023-12-15 09:25:00 ET Summary Despite indicators suggesting recessionary risks, the financial markets surged roughly 20% to date. The result of the increase in wealth effect has been a sustained improvement in consumer confidence, which supports economic growth. Given the unc...

2023-12-12 11:56:00 ET Summary The probability the U.S. economy will experience an official period of recession sometime in the next twelve months continued to recede during the past six weeks, currently standing at 67%. The probability peaked at 80.8% on 25 July 2023, just before...