First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX ETF News

First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX Fund (NYSEARCA:FEM)’s stock price was up 0.5% during trading on Tuesday . The company traded as high as $19.59 and last traded at $19.31, approximately 157,000

What’s different about this crisis, over and above the fact that the economy was in reasonably good shape before this phase, is that the stimulus we have seen h

EMs have less capacity to respond to the pandemic through fiscal and monetary stimulus than does the developed world. The Middle East, Africa, and Latin America

EM currencies have plunged against the dollar. Recent sales of emerging market bonds has been indiscriminate, impacting the at-risk issuers that have little pol

Caught in the throes of one of the most severe pandemics of all times, zooming past Covid-19 seems a distant fantasy. An uncoordinated global response to a syst

This is a crisis like no other, and there is substantial uncertainty about its impact on people's lives and livelihoods. The cumulative loss to global GDP over

As a share of gross domestic product (GDP) using purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars, EM countries have grown from approximately 37% of total global output in

While the United States and Europe are just beginning to feel the economic impact of COVID-19, China is starting to recover. The longer-term outcome will depend

Emerging market small-cap stocks have had some performance challenges in the first quarter of 2020. As active managers, we think there are significant opportuni

After having hit much of Asia, a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak is hitting the EU and the US, with a slump in world economic growth as a result. This i

Price swings have been dramatic. For example, we've seen 8 +/- 4% absolute moves in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in the last two weeks of March. We've seen w

The whole world wants to give emerging markets US dollars at interest rates that are shockingly low compared to what prevails in their domestic financial market

David and Robin also discuss what is happening to output gap measures, where the global dollar cycle stands today, and the importance of dollar swap lines for e

There are important differences in emerging market companies, especially when it comes to those with significant government ownership and those without it. When

We have seen significant policy action from the central bank in China in terms of low interest rate, refinancing support for small- and medium-sized companies,