News and Analysis

The global semiconductor shortage, which began during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, has caused an enormous amount of supply chain disruption in recent years....

CHANGED TIMES: Time was when countries cut interest rates to weaken currencies and steal a growth march on others. This has now flipped. The 20% stronger US dollar DXY index this...

STORM: Equity markets hit new lows for this bear market, with recession risks in the driving seat. After the Fed set out a vision of ever ‘higher-for-longer’ interest rates to...

Summary ESG investment trends buck the bear market Environmental, social, and governance issues are now mainstream, and bucking the bear market. Sustainable funds saw $120...

RECESSIONS: US recession risks were rising even before the latest FOMC meeting and ‘dot plot’ guidance made it all but inevitable. The NY Fed recession probability indicator is at...

STAGFLATION: UK has been in the eye-of-the-storm this year. With some of world’s highest inflation after triple-whammy of soaring energy costs, very tight jobs market, and...

DIVERGENCE: Oil equities have been resilient to falling oil prices, given their cheap valuations and with current prices still well over four times the average production cost....

CONGRESS: The five-yearly Communist Party Congress starts October 16. This 20th Congress is set to give President Xi an unprecedented third term and lay out their future policy...

Copying can be a good thing!  eToro has created a community where users can connect, share, and learn from one another, and copying is a core part of this. How so? On eToro,...

We think we have seen this bear market’s bottom. However, the recovery is never a straight line. The road to the next bull market has lots of ups and downs. The bear market will...