Please see this week’s market views from eToro’s global analyst team. The full 5-pager includes latest market data, the house investment view, and a weekly ‘special’. I'll be off...

THREAT: High oil prices have been a double headwind for markets. With this year’s higher gasoline prices a $100 billion extra ‘tax’ on the US consumer, and threatening to boost...

STRIKE: It’s day 21 of the slowly escalating UAW US auto strike. With sides seemingly inching toward a 20-30% pay raise deal. Affordable with wages 6% of a car's value, profit...

BEHAVIOR: Investors are often assumed to be fully rational, and markets to have efficiently priced everything. Market reality and the rise of behavioral economics argues it's more...

CASH: Cash is yielding the most in fifteen years. This has driven $1 trillion inflows into US money market funds this year. This is money that otherwise would have stayed as bank...

OUTLOOK: We expect the markets fever to break in October. As multiple macro ‘wall of worry’ pressures start to ease and seasonality turns positive. Investors had a miserable...

LISTING: There is a booming trend to IPO outside of your home market. These cross-border listings are especially focused on the US (see chart). Seen most recently with the IPO of...

CURVE: The US 10-year bond yield has risen above 4.5%, to its highest since 2007. This has piled pressure on stock market valuations, depressing the ‘future value of future cash...

FLEXIBILITY: The ability of central banks to respond to any sharp economic slowdown, and stock market weakness, by cutting interest rates is rising. The so-called ‘Fed put’,...

Please see this week’s market views from eToro’s global analyst team. The full 5-pager includes latest market data, the house investment view, and a weekly ‘special’....