News and Analysis

EARNINGS: This is a pivotal earnings season. With US stocks to end their earnings recession and profits taking over from rerated valuations as the markets driver. This help is...

GEOPOLITICS: Oil markets have started to price a small geopolitical risk premium, taking Brent above $90, but still below September highs. Rising prices are a double market...

UNCERTAINTY: Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and the risk of escalation has stoked economic and geopolitical uncertainty. This risks sapping both investor and company...

Major crypto developments for the week Fidelity releases Bitcoin report, making the case for Bitcoin as an investment River releases Bitcoin lightning network report,...

CATALYSTS: Bitcoin (BTC) briefly spiked 10% yesterday on report a spot bitcoin ETF had been approved. This was premature but illustrates the sensitivity of the asset class to any...

Major Crypto Developments for the week: Chart reveals Bitcoin is the best performing asset class of 2023 Judge blocks SEC’s request to appeal in Ripple case Developer...

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...