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August 2022 Newsletter: Good Jobs Data Leads to Market Rally; A Sign of Things to Come?

by Gino D'Alessio | Aug 14, 2022 | Newsletters

Non-farm payrolls more than doubled expectations on Friday, August 5, 2022. The market had been expecting an increase in jobs of 250 thousand. Instead, data released showed a whopping increase of 528 thousand new jobs. This news reversed the trends of various...

July 2022 Newsletter: Crypto Winter Continues Amid Rising Concerns of Recession

by Gino D'Alessio | Jul 14, 2022 | Newsletters

The crypto winter continues. Over the past month, Bitcoin and all major altcoins went down again. Bitcoin lost 39.5%, while Ethereum and Solana lost 47.6% and 29.6% respectively over the past 30 days. The generalized bear sentiment kept the broad stock market lower...

June 2022 Newsletter: Chaos in Crypto, Tech Stocks Sell-Off, While Gold Prices Move Sideways Amid Erratic Month for Market

by Gino D'Alessio | Jun 13, 2022 | Newsletters

Over the past month, we saw more worrying inflation data even though job creation remains high. The continuing war in Ukraine is beginning to take a back seat to the main concerns of the public. However, the events on the Russian-Ukraine front are leading to food...

May 2022 Newsletter: Bitcoin Continues to Slide to Discount Prices, Crude Oil Surrenders Some Gains

by Gino D'Alessio | May 3, 2022 | Newsletters

Recession fears continue to loom over the markets as investors adopt a risk-off attitude across most asset classes. With the war in Ukraine in the background, inflation, energy costs, and supply chain instability continue to be major concerns.  Along with inflation...

April 2022 Newsletter: Are Investors Betting on a Recession? First Inverted 5-Year/10-Year Yield Curve Since 2006

by Gino D'Alessio | Apr 21, 2022 | Newsletters

Financial markets are still recovering from the invasion of Ukraine. Volatility remains high in the broad stock market, although the S&P 500 has recovered most of its lost ground. At the time of writing the broad stock index was at 4575.52, still down 4% from the...

March 2022 Alternative Investing Newsletter: Alternative Asset Markets on the Rise Amid War in Europe; Stocks Remain Volatile

by Liam Hunt | Mar 7, 2022 | Newsletters

This week, the world has looked on with horror at the ongoing developments in Ukraine. As Russia’s military continues its invasion of Ukraine, global markets have reacted with volatility. At the time of writing, the S&P 500 (.SPX: INDEX) is down slightly...

January 2022 Newsletter: The Alternative Assets Winners and Losers of 2021 – Which Investments Will Lead the Charge in 2022?

by Mark Turner | Jan 6, 2022 | Newsletters

On January 3rd, 2009, the first Bitcoin block was mined. At the time, a single Bitcoin was worthless—representing mere ones and zeros on a network that no one yet understood.  Fast forward exactly 13 years and one Bitcoin is now worth over US$46,000 per coin. It is...

December 2021 Newsletter: Buyer’s Market for Bitcoin, Precious Metals as Fed Readies to Take Action on Inflation

by Mark Turner | Dec 3, 2021 | Newsletters

Will the holiday season bring gifts, or a lump of coal, for alternative investors? All signs point to the former. If you equip your portfolio with the right assets, you can position yourself for a very merry Christmas season.  The price of gold and silver currently...

October 2021 Newsletter: Bitcoin Price Cooling Off Amid Chinese Crackdowns—Is Now the Time to Buy the Dip?

by Amine Rahal | Oct 8, 2021 | Newsletters

It must be October.  Once again, at the beginning of the fall season, it’s a buyer’s market for crypto. Amid regulatory crackdowns from Chinese authorities, the price of Bitcoin fell throughout the month of September, from an August high of about $49,200 to its...

September 2021 Newsletter: Crypto Back in a Bull Market? Bitcoin Surpasses $50K, Ethereum on Pace for All-Time High

by Mark Turner | Sep 8, 2021 | Newsletters

On August 21st, Bitcoin broke through the $50K plateau for the first time since the spring. Only a month ago, some analysts were declaring that we were at the start of another crypto bear market. Clearly, that’s not the case.  Since then, we’ve seen some...

August 2021 Newsletter: Bitcoin Bounces Back; Ethereum A Sleeping Giant Amid Major Blockchain Upgrades in August

by Mark Turner | Aug 5, 2021 | Newsletters

Bitcoin is back.  After months of doom and gloom from pundits, it appears that Bitcoin has reached a level of price stability that its naysayers had long claimed to be all but impossible. In late July, the price of Bitcoin came just shy of $42,000 per BTC. Throughout...

July 2021 Newsletter: The Shot Heard ‘Round The World; El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender, Market Steadies

by Mark Turner | Jul 7, 2021 | Newsletters

The mainstream media is intent on believing that the sky is falling on crypto. While it’s true that we’ve seen a price correction over the past few months, the price of Bitcoin is still more than 80% higher than it was on December 1st.  If anything, Bitcoin is finally...
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