QQXT News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Sector Index Fd From 05/18/23

2023-05-18 21:20:00 ET Summary Every day it seems the gap just keeps getting wider, and today the YTD performance spread between the Nasdaq and the DJIA widened out to over 20 percentage points. As of Thursday afternoon, the Nasdaq was up 20.4% YTD, while the DJIA was barely hangi...

2023-05-18 14:13:00 ET Summary Choppy inflation environment may leave bonds range bound. Rate hikes in Canada & U.S. a possibility in June. Fixed income a potential option for riding out recession. With inflation remaining sticky and the potential for mor...

2023-05-18 03:59:00 ET Summary There has been a lot of discussion in the media about whether the U.S. Federal Reserve can pull off a so-called soft-landing - cooling inflationary pressures without significantly hurting economic growth. The significantly restrictive monetary p...

2023-05-17 13:53:00 ET Summary Warnings that the US economy is close to the tipping point for recession have endured for months, but the expansion keeps surprising on the upside. More of the same is likely for the immediate future, and perhaps longer. Economists are debating why t...

2023-05-17 01:40:00 ET Summary We got two big data points on May 16th on the economy and both pointed to sluggish trends in growth. Retail sales and industrial production have a strong correlation with weak economic growth and both came in unusually weak last month. Industrial...

2023-05-17 00:55:00 ET Summary You know trading is dull when stock traders talk about the bond market. But that’s where the action is these days. In Texas, the Austin area has been hit hard as the layoffs in the tech sector have extended there. From a trading standpoint...

2023-05-16 17:03:00 ET Summary The latest tech earnings: better than feared. The shift by big tech to AI and what it means for the sector. AI has already started impacting jobs at tech firms. The big tech names have outperformed expectations this year, and th...

2023-05-16 16:30:00 ET Summary Federal Reserve tightening cycles, without exception, have been associated with financial crises. Tightening lending standards, which has historically led to an economic downturn, is raising the likelihood of a recession. The bank failures may ma...

2023-05-16 03:30:00 ET Summary Historically low interest rates in recent years made it difficult for investors who seek yield from their investment portfolios. Rising rates in today's fixed income markets have led to more attractive bond prices and higher yields, alleviating some ...

2023-05-15 02:00:00 ET Summary As the economy begins to accelerate, value companies begin to outperform. The market continued to favor many of the more value-oriented or economically sensitive sectors of the market. The financial sector fell to the bottom of returns as balance...