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I have a lot of suspicion about last Thursday’s report that the U.S. economy contracted by 1.4%. It’s clear the Biden team will do all they can do to turn this negative GDP number into a positive report – fast! The news on the housing front was mixed. The Comm...
The Miller Income Strategy returned -10.08% for Q1 2022. As of the middle of April, the market is telling us the economy is still strong, though the rate of growth is now slowing due to overheating and inflation. Red-hot inflation now looks like it is weighing on growth. There...
Political Calculations' initial estimate of median household income in March 2022 is $75,539, an increase of $740 (or 0.99%) from the initial estimate of $74,799 in February 2022. March 2022's estimated median household income of $75,539 is $286 (or 0.4%) below February 2022's inflati...
Market volatility remains elevated and may be setting the stage for spikes even higher than we have already experienced. The NASDAQ peaked at around 3.1618% of its Covid 2020 high-low range the week of November 21, 2021. Especially in times like these, traders must understand wher...
The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job openings in the economy increased to 11.549 million in March, up from 11.344 million in February. The total job openings rate, openings divided by the sum of jobs plus o...
Anybody confused by recent economic reports is not alone. How can we have an apparently beginning recession with the hottest job market in decades? Probably this has to do with the sources of the reported decline in real GDP, which may yet get revised upwards. Nobody is forecastin...
The major markets’ technical review will help readers understand the underlying technical conditions for potential opportunities and risk management. This helps refine not only decision making about what to own and when but what to overweight or underweight to achieve better pe...
April ended with a huge drubbing for risk assets. A sharp rise in global interest rates hurt high-duration stocks the most, but sellers came after some of 2022's winners too. Given a further bearish turn in technicals and several other macro headwinds, we remain cautious on stocks...
Friday, the market woke up to think about the realities of a recession suddenly staring back at them from the mirror. That ugly truth will remain in front of them, regardless of what the Fed does. It took no change in the news at all to completely knock the exuberant market down i...
April saw the worst monthly performance for the NASDAQ since November of 2008 when the country was in the depths of the financial crisis. The war in Ukraine entered its third month and inflation shows no signs as abating as 1st quarter GDP growth was negative. What will the month ...
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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...