XPND News and Press, First Trust Expanded Technology ETF From 07/29/23

2023-07-29 01:54:00 ET Summary While tech companies continue to grind higher on a surge of enthusiasm for all things related to artificial intelligence, relative performance has shifted. A Bloomberg consensus of 2023 U.S. gross domestic product forecasts has growth at 1.3%, a sign...

2023-07-28 05:00:00 ET Summary The Technology industry has surged in 2023, led by the dominant tech giants known as the "Magnificent Seven," increasing concentration risks for cap-weighted indexes. Regulated Investment Companies (RICs) are subject to security concentration limits,...

2023-07-28 00:00:00 ET Summary The current environment looks favorable for equity market neutral, global macro and insurance-linked securities, according to K2 Advisors. Single stock correlations are low on a historical basis, suggesting a favorable environment for equity market-n...

2023-07-26 11:50:00 ET Summary While Q1 2023 ended with the banking instability threatening to erase market gains, U.S. equity markets recovered, and the Syntax US 500 Large Cap Index rose 8.9 % in Q2, driven predominantly by an AI-induced rally. Cooling inflation numbers and expe...

2023-07-25 01:30:00 ET Summary Why the stock market gains we're seeing may not be telling the whole story. Investors may have been too focused on market capitalization in the first half. Finding opportunities in the healthcare sector. The strong market performance ...

2023-07-22 01:15:00 ET Summary We noted in one of our recent commentaries that the very narrow leadership of a small number of mega cap tech stocks seemed to be broadening out to other corners of the market. It’s a good time to revisit this idea, partly because earnings rep...

2023-07-10 11:30:00 ET Summary Higher expected corporate earnings mask broad pressure under the surface. We see more earnings pain ahead and look for opportunities at the sector level. U.S. Treasury yields surged and stocks dipped last week. Data confirmed the U.S. labor market is...

2023-07-10 05:30:00 ET Summary Financial and tech sectors face weak comparisons from late 2022, while the energy sector faces stronger comparisons and good growth from late 2022. The 'pandemic' influence will ripple through the S&P 500 numbers through the end of 2023. Fina...

2023-07-10 04:36:00 ET Summary The forward 4-quarter estimate (FFQE) saw its quarterly bump this week, with the FFQE jumping to $230.26 from last week’s $224.01. Financials always lead off earnings season, and Q2 ’23 will be no exception, with the larger-cap financia...

2023-06-29 21:10:00 ET Summary There are some companies putting “AI” in their names, but it is not yet a huge number and they have real business reasons for doing so. Naturally, investors will look to track measures like the intensity with which firms are using AI or...