VGFO News and Press, Virtus WMC Global Factor Opportunities ETF From 06/18/20

By Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at IMF The Great Lockdown is expected to play out in three phases, first as countries enter the lockdown, then as they exit, and finally as they escape the lockdown when there is a medical solution to the pandemi...

The following is an extract from IHS Markit's monthly PMI overview presentation. For the full report, please look at the bottom of the article. Global business activity contracted sharply in May, according to the latest PMI business survey data, dropping for a fourth successive month. Encour...

By J. Patrick Bradley Introduction There's nothing prophetic about saying the coronavirus will change the way we live and conduct business. Unemployment will rise, and some of that increase will create permanent joblessness. Some businesses will fail, despite the efforts of monetary auth...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through June 15, 2020. The top performer is our own S&P 500 with a loss of 5.08%. China's Shanghai is in second with a loss of 5.25% and in third is Tokyo's Nikkei 225 with a loss of 8.99%. Coming in last is Lond...

By Bill Witherell, Ph.D. As we approach midyear 2020, economists are continuing to adjust their projections for the global economy as the depths of the current recession, the most severe since the Great Depression in the 1930s, become more evident. The Organization for Economic Cooperation...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought about a new investment landscape in which some companies and sectors have fared better than others. Significant market dislocations have also created potential opportunities in the higher quality areas of the credit spectrum. Global credit markets have re...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through June 9, 2020. The top performer is our own S&P 500 with a loss of 0.73%. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 is in second with a loss of 2.39% and in third is China's Shanghai with a loss of 3.08%. Coming in last is India...

So first of all let's just get straight into dealing with that title... Why did I write "(Another)" New Bull Market in Global Equities? The reason is very simple, I wrote an article in October last year, documenting the technical triggers that indicated a new bull market was getting ...

By Philip Lawlor, head of Global Markets Research Not surprisingly, factor performance in May captured the spirited turn in investor confidence amid early signs that the collapse in economic activity from the pandemic shock may be bottoming out. In a notable about-face, markets staged a ...

By Philip Lawlor, head of Global Markets Research The risk-on rally since late March gained traction in May, extending what has been a remarkably swift rebound from a historically sharp collapse in global equity markets this year. It took just 24 trading days for the FTSE All-World Index...