TDIV News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund From 03/25/23

2023-03-25 07:11:39 ET First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund ( NASDAQ: TDIV ) - $0.1784 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.26% as of Feb. 28. Payable Mar 31; for shareholders of record Mar 27; ex-div Mar 24. For further details see: First Trust NASDAQ Techno...

2023-03-24 23:53:00 ET Summary Although the S&P 500 is up 2.84% on the year as of yesterday’s close, only three of the eleven sectors are higher. Consumer Discretionary posted the smallest gain of 10%; Technology and Communication Services have risen 17.2% and 18.1%, re...

2023-03-22 08:54:00 ET Summary Technology and healthcare are good examples of sectors that can play different equity-allocation roles than you might expect. Unlike income-oriented defensive sectors, which are sensitive to changes in interest rates, some of the highest-quality low-...

2023-03-21 10:32:00 ET Summary With about $500 billion in outflows from the smaller banks, if one were to estimate the total value of all emergency facilities from the Fed and other agencies – even though that number is changing by the day – one can say that the Fed tigh...

2023-03-20 15:15:00 ET Summary SVB collapse, consequences, and implications for technology. Role of productivity improvement in addressing inflation. What we learned from industrial tech earnings - identifying focus areas within our macro framework. The collapse of t...

2023-03-16 01:24:00 ET Summary The crisis has broader macroeconomic implications and serves as a potent reminder that the banking system, asset markets, and the broader economy are all intrinsically linked via interest rates. Recession risks have increased because of the likelihoo...

2023-03-09 10:14:00 ET Summary For technology stocks, 2022 marked the worst performance year since the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. We are optimistic in the long-term outlook for technology stocks. As the sector looks to rise from the rubble of 2022, we b...

2023-03-09 02:50:00 ET Summary Rates of change matter, especially for tech companies, and we would expect investors to react favorably to accelerating growth. In healthcare, we continue to find investment opportunities in a difficult macro environment. If the U.S. enters a tra...

2023-03-07 00:10:41 ET Summary TDIV selects up to 100 U.S.-listed dividend-paying stocks in the Technology and Communications sectors. Its expense ratio is 0.50%, and it increased dividends by 8.46% over the last five years. The focus is dividend growth, not dividend yield. Howeve...

Summary Fourth-quarter results showed consumers balked at higher prices. Together, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft command roughly three-quarters of the cloud market and we find the soft results for all three to be a potential canary in the coal mine for the economy. We expect the foc...