News and Analysis

SINGLES: Sunday, November 11th, is China’s ‘Singles Day’. The world’s largest shopping event and finale of a three-week retail extravaganza. It will give an important read on the...

TOUGH: Commodities has been the worst performing asset class of 2023 (see chart). Energy, industrial metals, and agriculture are all lower. Precious metals is the sole exception...

Clean energy, particularly investments in solar and wind, has been capturing the spotlight lately. Let’s look at the recent developments, challenges, and potential opportunities...

Major crypto developments for the week Second biggest returning month of 2023 in October for Bitcoin 15-year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper Altcoin open interest...

RELOOK: High dividend yield stocks (HDV) have been this year’s big investment style losers, underperforming the S&P 500 (SPY) by 20 points. With unprecedented competition from...

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’.  The better...

BOOM: Commodity markets are down in the past year, but some smaller commodities have seen a standout performance, from cocoa (+60%) to sugar (+45%) and uranium (+35%). But none...

SWIFT: The modern music industry has existed since the 1877 invention of the phonograph. But been forced to constantly reinvent itself, from the near death experience of digital...

OUTLOOK: Summer’s stock market ‘breather’ turned into a deeper October ‘correction’ but we see grounds for contrarian optimism ahead. Markets are squeezed between soaring bond...

Major crypto developments for the week: Bitcoin’s correlation to gold reaches highest level since March Bitcoin scarcity increases: more BTC hasn’t moved in at least 10...