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...

In the decades ahead, the global population is expected to increase significantly. According to the United Nations (UN), by 2050, there could be almost 10 billion people on the...

LESSONS: We are halfway through a strong third quarter S&P 500 earnings, but investors takeaways have been mixed. The US earnings ‘recession’ has ended, and the recovery is...

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...

BOOST: We’ve seen a structural increase in the number of retail investors, and their exposure to stocks, as they take control of their financial futures. An unsung driver of this...

GEOPOLITICS: Gold has been the go-to safe haven amidst surging geopolitical uncertainty and the tall wall-of-worry. Benefitting from its lack of credit risk, negative correlation...

BREAK: US government bond yields, the bedrock of modern finance, had an unprecedented surge (see chart). This stokes concerns ‘something will break’ in markets. Similar to Sept....

CONSOLIDATION: Exxon (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) are doubling down on fossil fuels, widening the gap with European peers, and turbocharging the industry with some of the largest...

  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’. ...

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...