News and Analysis

MARKETS: Rotation away from long-duration tech is accelerating, with NASDAQ -10%,  and risk aversion across equities. Fed tightening fears, and bond yields, have surged. We are...

RALLY: The broad-based Bloomberg commodity index has rallied 70% from its low 27 months ago. The average commodity rally has been 120% over 30 months, implying room for more....

Last Week’s Top Five Market Winners Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ) The past week included significant gains for Zynga (ZNGA), iRhythm Technologies Inc. (IRTC), BioCryst...

Cardano surpasses Solana as L1 chains lead recovery The tide has started turning for Bitcoin, which briefly reclaimed the $43K level last week after falling 15% since the start...

Thirteen years have passed since Bitcoin was first introduced to the world, in January 2009. When I first heard about Bitcoin, back in 2010, I felt an almost instantaneous...

Summary Focus: Why styles and sectors really matter Getting the sectors and investment factors right matters. The past 25 years the average S&P 500 gap between best and...

BOOM: Private equity (PE) has boomed in the last decade. Their assets have risen to over $7 trillion, returns have averaged 12% annually, and uninvested ‘dry powder’ is near a...

Big banks will be among the first group of publicly traded companies to publicise fourth-quarter earnings in January 2022, and there may be some surprises. The COVID-19 Omicron...

RISE AND FALL: The huge repricing of Fed interest rate expectations has taken a big toll on the perceived ‘riskiest’ assets (see chart). Most are down 30-45% from 2021 highs vs...

NEW KID ON BLOCK: Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is a new and big driver of retail sales, especially for the young, and in markets like Australia, UK, US (see chart). It was c$150...