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In President Biden’s first State of the Union speech, there was no change in the national energy policy in the light of $115 oil and soaring inflation, with prospects of much higher prices due to the cutoff of Russian supply. With the latest U.S. GDP estimate now at zero and he...
The U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, also known as the FT900, is published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis with data going back to 1992. The monthly reports include revisions that go back several months. Today's headline number of -89.69B was worse than t...
We see developed market (DM) government bonds as ineffective portfolio diversifiers and favor inflation-linked bonds in this inflationary environment. Energy prices surged on further supply concerns. Equities slid, with Europe harder hit than the U.S. Bond yields fell on reduced rate ...
The economic outlook for 2022 and 2023 in the United States is good, though inflation will remain high and storm clouds grow in later years. Economic growth will be pushed up by past stimulus, both fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus. Inflation will remain high this year and nex...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created significant uncertainty for the cycle outlook. The global economy was on track for strongly above-trend growth in 2022. The war in Ukraine will likely have a negative impact on growth and cause higher inflation this year, with Europe tak...
The spread between the 2- and 10-year Treasury yields has collapsed 40 basis points over the past month. The flattening of the curve has many worried a recession is on the horizon. This flattening is more a function of a flight to safety than a fear of economic contraction. I ...
We’ve noted over the past two months that the pace of US economic activity is set to slow markedly during the first half of this year. Note that a sign of the downward pressure on economic activity resulting from high inflation is the decline in ‘real’ wages. ...
At the beginning of this year, few Wall Street analysts expected substantially weaker economic growth in 2022. Already, we see a contraction in manufacturing activity as demand slows. The most significant risk to earnings, and the eventual earning reversion, is the reversal of liq...
The pandemic is just one long-term consideration for economies as the world adjusts to several new phases. Short-term risks are elevated, but a focus on interactions between major long-term risks could prove critical for market participants. Demographic patterns change slowly, but...
Parabolic prices are usually the prelude to significant price declines. The New York Stock Exchange Advance Decline line may have delivered a bullish technical divergence. Barring extraordinary circumstances, the Fed will stick to the slow and steady plan for raising rates u...
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First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that First Trust Total US Market AlphaDEX ® ETF (Nasdaq: TUSA) (the “Fund”), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund (the “Trust”), will change its investment objective, name and ot...
First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announces the declaration of distributions for 115 exchange-traded funds (each a “Fund,” collectively, the “Funds”) advised by FTA. The following dates apply to today's distribution declarations: FTA is a federally registe...