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

Based on new hopes for a peaceful Ukrainian/Russian resolution to their nearly month-long war, the world is cautiously optimistic. Although China has been trying to help Russia avoid economic sanctions, China is struggling with its own debt problems from Evergrande, slowing economic g...

The Federal Reserve Put is a well-known phenomenon where falling equity prices convert hawks into doves. The recent language has been decisively hawkish despite falling stock prices. We tell you why the Fed Put strike is now far lower and growth stocks will go through another...

Gold is inherently a stronger currency than the US dollar. The most recent peak in the SPX/gold ratio occurred at the beginning of December-2021. Even if the decline over the past three months of the SPX/gold ratio was the first leg of a new major downward trend, it would not be o...

Jerome Powell, Fed chair, attempted to put the stock market straight today by announcing that the Fed would do whatever was necessary to stop inflation. This was a catch-up speech trying to turn around the feeling coming out of the FOMC meeting last week that the Fed was not really ve...

As 2022 progresses, elevated inflation is likely to take a toll on the pace of economic growth and job creation. With a strong labor market, the amount of dollars spent by consumers can keep growing, but with inflation, the quantity of goods and services received may decline. Neve...

Volatility persists - but it is accompanied by a shift back to market patterns associated with pre-war concerns about inflation and rising rates. Grain and fertilizer shortages could become an issue later this year, but energy prices remain the major immediate transmission mechanism t...

The Fed wants to tighten financial conditions and bring them back to neutral. Tighter financial conditions are bad news for stock prices. The Fed wants financial conditions to tighten through monetary policy. For further details see: The Fed Is Focused On Bringing Down A...

The S&P 500 is not a good representation of a composite of stocks but of a select few stocks. The S&P 500 Index has been skewed toward tech and other growth stocks over time. We like high quality companies with solid balance sheets that have a growth strategy. For fu...

The stock market had its best week since November 2020. History shows stocks have a positive bias in the 6-12 months after the first rate hike of a new cycle. If we are now in a period of stagflation, corporate earnings growth will be the key to positive returns, as it was in the ...

European stocks actually performed better than the NASDAQ last week so maybe it was positive developments in the Ukraine war that spurred the rally. The dollar index fell nearly 1% last week but is still in an uptrend across shorter time frames. What the market does on a week to w...