SDVY News and Press, First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF From 09/25/23

2023-09-25 04:59:00 ET Summary Higher for longer means the Fed could maintain the fed funds rate at its current level and let the economy weaken in order to get inflation down to the 2% range. If crude oil and the dollar break lower, it might bring the 10-year Treasury yield back ...

2023-09-24 00:13:00 ET Summary We are cautiously optimistic for Q4 2023. Stock markets turned decidedly more upbeat in July as many strategists adjusted their projections away from recession and toward a “soft landing” scenario for the U.S. economy. Generative AI...

2023-09-23 03:05:00 ET Summary Bonds for safety and equity for growth – this is the basic formula for long-term investment planning, the essence of portfolio construction around a client’s specific return objectives and risk tolerance. Admittedly, we don’t int...

2023-09-22 11:04:44 ET First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF ( NASDAQ: SDVY ) declares $0.0982/share quarterly dividend , -52.7% decrease from prior dividend of $0.2077. Forward yield 1.4%. Payable Sept.29; for shareholders of record Sept. 25; ex-d...

2023-09-22 01:10:00 ET Summary One could use the word anomaly for Q3 of the stock market. S&P 500 performance for the first two months of the quarter was driven by the “magnificent seven” large-cap tech-oriented stocks. In my opinion, the issue of concentration v...

2023-09-18 22:35:00 ET Summary As the 10-year yield moved up from 3.25% in the spring to 4.35% recently, the stock market generally ignored rising bond yields. If the S&P 500 has risen this far without a considerable rise in earnings, as interest rates are also rising, the dis...

2023-09-18 19:15:00 ET Summary If investors in the S&P 500 were looking for direction from the newstreams for how to shape their portfolios, they didn't find much to influence them. The S&P 500 wrapped up the week at 4450.32, down 0.16% from where it closed the week before...

2023-09-15 21:25:00 ET Summary Walmart is now trading at an all-time-high, although the so-called breakout above the May ’22 highs around $160 has been on below-average volume. For fiscal year ’24 and ’25, WMT has seen EPS estimates get cut 2% for fiscal ...

2023-09-11 23:35:00 ET Summary Market sentiment has improved from record lows of early June ’23 using the S&P 500 Net Non-Commercial Futures Positions (weekly data from Feb 2015) as the measure. The spike in the T-Bill rate (3mo) made little sense unless one viewed this...

2023-09-11 15:06:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 index declined by 1.3% during the trading week ending on Friday, 8 September 2023, closing out the Labor Day-holiday shortened week at 4457.49. The biggest trouble for the S&P 500 came on Wednesday, 6 September, when news came Chi...