TUSA News and Press, First Trust Total US Market AlphaDEX ETF From 03/19/22

In addition to what is arguably the single most significant geopolitical development since the fall of the Soviet Union, though, this quarter has also witnessed the highest levels of inflation in the world economy in more than forty years. Given all that’s happened, it is perha...

Rates rise for the first time in 3 years and the market celebrates. The "issues" control the price action. Improvements will be celebrated by rallies, and disappointments will have the indices testing lows. China sends a message that wakes up its markets and launches a "risk-on" r...

High frequency indicators can give us a nearly up-to-the-moment view of the economy. The metrics are divided into long leading, short leading, and coincident indicators. There are two dynamics - two pincers - acting on the economic indicators. On the long end, the Fed is tightenin...

The global economy is facing an incredible amount of uncertainty at the moment which is continuing to drive the volatility we’re seeing in financial markets. Whether it’s uncertainty around inflation, interest rates, commodity prices, Covid or Ukraine, the growth outlook...

One of the features of financial markets is that they often react to new information with emotional volatility and overshoot extremes. One of the enduring points of confusion is that academic finance teaches that markets are, more or less, informationally efficient. The market oft...

Based on volume alone, the SPX options clearly have utility. Over the past few years, options volume continues to move toward short-dated maturities and smaller average contract size. The inversion in VIX and the significant rise in energy prices reflect the ongoing concern of Rus...

For the second week in a row, less than a quarter (22.5%) of respondents to the AAII sentiment survey reported bullish. Bearish sentiment meanwhile climbed another 4 percentage points, with just under half of respondents reporting as such. Neutral sentiment fell from 30.2% down to...

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve raised the range for its policy rate of interest by 25 basis points initiating a phase of policymaking more to the restrictive side of the chart. And Chairman Powell and the Federal Reserve provided some information about how its policy rate of interest ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve finally hiked its policy rate by .25% on Wednesday, its first increase since 2018. The Bank of England followed suit on Thursday, announcing its third consecutive .25% increase on Thursday (overnight rate now at .75%). The European Central Bank hasn’...

The Fed laid out a very hawkish monetary policy stance on March 16. The plan to shrink the balance sheet and raise rates will make things very difficult for stocks. The Fed is looking to tighten financial conditions further, which is very bad for stocks. For further details ...