News and Analysis

Francisco Javier Gomez, who goes by the user name jgpastrana, is a Popular Investor on eToro, but isn’t your typical financial professional. His background is in mechanical...

Summary Focus: Which sectors will lead in 2022? We continue our 2022 outlook, now on sectors. We think ‘cyclicals’ , like commodities, industrials, discretionary, and...

Summary Focus: Our investment outlook for 2022 We set out a roadmap for a rare 4th consecutive year of good returns in 2022. Our economic outlook for still high growth, a slow...

Last month, one of the world’s most prominent venture capital (VC) firms, Sequoia Capital, made a bold move that shocked the financial industry. In a blog post published on...

STRESS TEST: Equities have passed a big stress-test so far, with the recent sharp repricing of Fed interest rate hike expectations. S&P 500 is up 9% this quarter even as...

Monday November 29th is "Cyber Monday." Since early November, shoppers worldwide have been hunting Cyber Monday shopping day deals. This annual mainly Internet event is soaring in...

SOME HEALING: We are seeing signs of supply chains readjusting to the huge demand and dislocations seen this year. Our supply chain ‘pain’ index is down 20% from early October...

LESS UPSIDE RISK: A ‘fourth wave’ of global virus cases is underway (see chart) as we head into the northern hemisphere winter. This will dampen but not derail the economic...

RISKS: Brent crude is -8% from $86/bbl to $79 on rising virus cases and talk of a Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) release from US, China and others. US has 600 million bbls in...

The year is not even over yet, and 2021 is set to go down in stock market history as the one to beat for taking the most companies public. Here’s what you need to know. As the...