QQXT News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Sector Index Fd From 06/22/23

2023-06-22 12:58:00 ET Summary How a recession could impact different asset classes. Why a recovery may be more U shaped than V shaped. Equity markets may not be telling the whole investor sentiment story. The S&P 500 entered bull market territory recentl...

2023-06-22 03:11:00 ET Summary The new Powell arithmetic: The Fed and the rates market believe that policy is restrictive. But uncertainty remains as the Fed signaled additional hikes and bond markets have priced in a higher probability of additional “insurance” hikes be...

2023-06-20 21:05:00 ET Summary Two weeks in a row, jobless claims have been elevated, affecting the four-week moving average. These indicators have not been as high since late 2021 and early 2022. Economic indicators geared towards manufacturing show a recession in that part of th...

2023-06-20 14:19:00 ET Summary The latest rebound in equity prices has pulled the S&P 500 and Canada’s TSX back to levels seen two years ago in June/July 2021. In the real economy, Canada’s Producer Price Index (PPI) for May contracted 6.3% year-over-year and the...

2023-06-19 03:37:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 finished Thursday, June 15 at its highest level in 14 months, and its fifth consecutive weekly gain. The long-suffering Commodities asset class led the way higher last week, but is down YTD and since the October low. The top 7 sto...

2023-06-14 21:30:00 ET Summary This year is showing there is a wide dispersion of returns across the standard index providers’ definitions of growth and value. Microsoft was the second-largest holding in the S&P 500 Growth Index and the top holding in the S&P 500 Va...

2023-06-13 09:52:00 ET Summary The latest update to the Recession Probability Track shows how it has progressed deeper into a higher probability of recession since our last update a little over six weeks ago. If the Fed follows through on pausing the series of rate hikes it began ...

2023-06-12 19:20:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 is up 11% YTD; the Nasdaq nearly 33%; and the TSX is +2.5%. The year-to-date market-weighted S&P 500 gain versus an equal-weighted basket is the most extreme since at least 1990. At the March 2000 cycle peak, tech accounted fo...

2023-06-12 14:45:00 ET Summary Nasdaq extended its streak of weekly gains to seven, the longest since November 2019. There have been seven periods of at least seven-week rallies since the Financial Crisis lows in May 2019. The average ‘max drawdown’ over any thre...

2023-06-09 04:33:35 ET Summary The 2023 stock market rally is driven by AI speculation and Big Tech giants, with the MAAMG group (Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) reaching a combined valuation of approximately $10 trillion. Citigroup's lead strategist Dirk Willer and th...