TUSA News and Press, First Trust Total US Market AlphaDEX ETF From 03/26/22

The final March results from the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers show overall consumer sentiment fell again, hitting the lowest level since August 2011. The composite consumer sentiment decreased to 59.4 in March, down from 62.8 in February, a drop of 5.4 percent. The inde...

Investors appear remarkably calm at the moment given the level of uncertainty we’re facing this year, from inflation to interest rates and even Covid, when you consider China is still embracing lockdowns. Throw soaring commodity prices into the mix and there’s plenty of ...

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. Increasing interest rates, a tightened yield curve, limited profit growth, and decelerating real money supply a...

Investors are weighing the issues and it's being reflected in the volatile price action. Global PMI data remains resilient despite all of the "issues." Corporations are buying back stock and raising dividends; that's positive. Consumer confidence is at an 11-year low and ...

The blowback from the war in Ukraine has only just started to rock the global economy, but the early clues for the US remain encouraging. An added factor of uncertainty, some economists advise, is changes in the forces of growth and contraction. So far, however, there are reasons ...

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Preliminary PMI survey data showed only a modest impact from the Ukraine war on current economic growth in the world's largest developed economies in March. Business activity continued to grow strongly across the G4 developed economies of the US, eurozone, UK and Japan in March. G...

Elevated energy prices are a significant driver of higher consumer prices. Equity income presents numerous solutions that are well-suited to generate yield in the current environment. In this environment, traditional fixed income will be tricky to navigate from yield and total ret...

AAII’s weekly sentiment survey saw a double-digit increase in the percentage of respondents reporting as bullish, with the reading rising from 22.5% up to 32.8%. The percentage of respondents reporting as pessimistic fell from nearly 50% of respondents down to 35.4%. Bears ...

Inflation was never a problem during the 1993-1995 period. Globalization was disinflationary and made soft landings possible. The current trend on de-globalization is stagflationary. Prepare for the hard landing - recession and the bear market in S&P 500. For further...