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It looks like we have seen a peak in the price of oil, which is the first sign that the market may have bottomed. I also saw some daylight in the Producer Price Index. Focusing on improvements in the rate of change for each economic data point will be the best indicator that the b...
This past week marked the 13th anniversary of the bottom of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009. The March 6, 2009 stock market low for the S&P 500 marked a staggering overall value loss of 51.9%. The Fed was expected to raise interest rates by as much as 50 basis point...
The March preliminary read on sentiment from the University of Michigan showed lower levels of optimism than at the depths of the COVID crash. Despite the pessimism, though, the New York Fed’s monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations showed that wage growth expectations for the ...
Market perspective is essential in avoiding investing mistakes. The problem is that most investors did not buy the 2020 bottom or sell the 2022 peak. Keep your market perspective in check and make sure you aren’t anchoring to something that will lead to poor decisions over ...
Having closed the door for assessing the performance of the January 2020 'Phase 1' trade deal between the U.S. and China, we've refocused our ongoing trade analysis to focus on the trade recovery from 2020's coronavirus pandemic. For our purposes, we opted to model a counterfactual af...
Tech stocks plunged yesterday under the weight of higher long-term interest rates. The 10-year Treasury yield soared to 2.14%, which is the highest it has been since July 2019. The price of oil is falling as fast as it rose, as sentiment swings and speculators look to take profits...
EU extended the Russian sanctions enforced in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea to include specific dual-use and military items that would prohibit the proliferation of Russia's economy through its various key industries. The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) expanded its...
Inflation looks uncomfortably high, ingrained and troublesome, but net worth looks fabulous. Gold is very expensive because investors have been buying gold in order to hedge against rising inflation. Despite the fact that outstanding federal debt is just shy of its highest level i...
Why the Russia-Ukraine war likely won't alter the Fed's rate hike plans. Why a prolonged Ukraine conflict could start to weigh on the U.S. recovery. The U.S. consumer has been resilient, but what they're spending on may be changing. For further details see: U.S. Recovery...
Household net worth rose to a new record in the fourth quarter of 2021; totaled $150.3 trillion, up 3.7 percent or $5.7 trillion from the previous quarter, and 14.4 percent from the end of 2020. Within financial assets, equities led with a $1.6 trillion or 5.3 percent rise. Nonfinanci...
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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...