Sunday, 18 October 2026
Global markets, trading & world business — for professional traders
By Ryan Krystopowicz, CFA, Head of RIA Portfolio Solutions Distribution & Specialists; and Lauren Pfendt, Senior Associate, Portfolio Solutions Key Takeaways SMAs can give investors greater control over individual holdi…
Despite gold’s price dip in September, sector fundamentals look solid: producers are reporting near-record margins, strong balance sheets, and management teams focused on execution. Key Takeaways Strong cash flow is giv…
The world's largest copper mine, Escondida, is on the brink of a strike. The supervisors and professional staff union at BHP's Chilean operation said Tuesday that labor and management failed to reach a new collective co…
Looking for a broader base of market support As third-quarter earnings season begins, the S&P 500 Index sits just below last week’s all-time closing high. But how strong is the foundation under stocks’ latest push? One …
The United States recorded a budget deficit of $1.99 trillion in fiscal 2026, an increase of $217 billion from the prior year, according to Reuters. Figures released by the Treasury Department on Friday showed the short…
Matthew Bielski, founder and CEO of Defiance ETFs, recently joined Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on Bloomberg’s ETF IQ to discuss the Defiance Autism Impact ETF (ASD) and the personal family experience that helped inspi…
Markets today are defined by AI. From yields to the movements of the S&P 500 — the story is, like it or not, a story of data centers, chips, and models. For investors, then, what are the best ways to get exposure to AI …
The global video gaming ecosystem is gaining upward momentum in the fourth quarter, fueled by strong enterprise demand for artificial intelligence (AI) tools, cloud infrastructure expansion, and direct-to-consumer mobil…
Inflation came in hotter than the consensus expected September CPI rose 0.6% month-on-month and 3.7% year-on-year, above the 3.6% consensus.1 Energy did much of the work, with gasoline prices up 9.1% over the month and …
For decades, Japan’s military spending was tame compared to other developed nations with comparably sized economies. But in recent years, the Land of the Rising Sun kicked defense spending into high gear. Those changes,…
With elevated U.S. stock valuations, rising interest rates, and overall market uncertainty, investors may want to consider diversifying abroad – one reason being to help mitigate concentration risk from the handful of n…
ORLANDO, Florida, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The AI equity rout accelerated significantly in Asia on Thursday on growing fears about the murky, circular financing powering the intelligence revolution's buildout, although its fo…
Buying bitcoin once meant handing over cash or wiring money to Tokyo, said Henri Arslanian, co-founder of Nine Blocks Capital Management. He described how access has changed, from bank closures to ETFs, stablecoins, and…
The Amplify Online Retail ETF (IBUY) is seeing an early fourth-quarter rebound across digital commerce following a choppy September. The index underpinning the IBUY ETF — the EQM Online Retail Index — has climbed 3.14% …
At a time when the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 make up 35 to 40% of the index by weight, and many of those names are in tech, it’s fair for investors to ask how much more tech their portfolios can hold. Still, tech sto…
Jobs Growth: Slower but Steady Over time, growth in real GDP roughly equals the combination of productivity growth and labor force growth, and employment growth tracks the labor force (exhibit 1). When the business cycl…
US consumer price inflation accelerated to an annual rate of 3.7% in September 2026, driven by a sharp increase in gasoline prices and renewed pressure on housing and other consumer costs, reinforcing expectations that …
Bitcoin lost nearly 3% over the weekend and now trades at $87,724 despite a 1.3% Monday bounce, holding below moving averages and last week's lows.
Last week, the NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF (QQQI) crossed $15 billion in assets under management. This major milestone was the result of investor demand. In the first nine months of 2026, the tax-efficient options-b…
Last year’s Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Johannesburg, the first ever held in Africa, put the continent’s prosperity at the top of the agenda. Accordingly, Africa’s mounting debt crisis featured prominently. Today, m…
Novel ETFs are headed toward a clearer review process, according to Brian Daly, who directs the Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Key Takeaways: Daly says the SEC is reas…
.Danaher (DHR), one of the world’s largest providers of medical diagnostics and laboratory equipment, recently announced plans to launch its first AI-powered autonomous laboratory, scheduled to operate at commercial sca…
Big bank earnings season starts Tuesday, and the T. Rowe Price Financials ETF (TFNS) has a lot riding on it. Thirteen of its holdings report from Tuesday through Friday, spanning big banks, asset managers, and insurers.…
The ETF ecosystem grows almost every day, with hundreds of new strategies and massive flows coming with each year that goes by. Thanks to the ETF wrapper’s flexibility, issuers can craft and release targeted, transparen…