XPND News and Press, First Trust Expanded Technology ETF

2024-07-18 13:40:00 ET Summary Can U.S. markets continue to outperform? Why U.S. markets have strayed "pretty far into overvalued territory". The sector rotation out of big tech and into smaller-caps. Shares of big tech have been losing steam recently after pushing U.S. ...

2024-07-06 03:38:00 ET Summary We received a few more data points this week, validating the increasingly consensus view that the economy is slowing. Attention now shifts to the corporate sector, with the second quarter earnings season getting underway next week. It would be ni...

2024-07-05 20:02:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2024-07-04 02:35:00 ET Summary Understanding country, industry and stock concentrations in global equities today is important to monitor risk, interpret what is driving markets and form expectations of market opportunities. US stocks account for over three-quarters of the top 250 ...

2024-07-03 08:00:00 ET Summary The economy underneath has been very strong, and that’s really what’s enabled the Fed to actually push out those interest rate cuts. The best performing sector has been technology with all of the AI powering the technology gains. Th...

2024-07-02 17:30:00 ET Summary Astonishingly, the top five giants of the S&P 500 now account for a staggering 27% of the entire index. I remember when I first started working in the financial services industry how glamorous it appeared to be a stockbroker, day-trading in the l...

2024-06-26 14:20:00 ET Summary Are AI stocks still booming or facing a bubble? Comparing the rise of AI vs. other game-changing technology advances. Trends to watch in the AI space and the implications for investors. The rise of artificial intelligence has le...

2024-06-22 03:13:00 ET Summary Artificial Intelligence is a corporate game changer that will significantly increase corporate margins by automating many costly human labor expenditures. Almost every day now the Magnificent 7 add hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap value....

2024-06-20 19:45:00 ET Summary Below is a quick look at trailing 12-month price to sales ratios (P/S) over the last five years for the large-cap S&P 500 and small-cap Russell 2,000 along with each index's respective Technology sector. The Russell 2000's price to sales ratio is...

2024-06-17 10:30:00 ET Summary A flat monthly CPI number (year-over-year unchanged at 3.3% inflation rate) helped prompt a drop in the 10-year yield and fuel enthusiasm that we may see an early fall (September) rate cut. Due to the perception that the month-over-month inflation nu...