Market Insights

It's almost time to start preparing your Thanksgiving meal for next week, and if you're hosting, brace yourself for high food expenditures. What effect will inflation have on your Thanksgiving shopping budget this year?

Inflation, rising interest rates, and falling stock prices have added pressure on the consumer. Could Black Friday sales offer investors clues about what to expect of the holiday shopping?

After a tumultuous few days FTX looks to be facing imminent collapse, the poster boy of the crypto world has almost overnight become the pariah, while almost single handedly setting the industry back years by destroying trust in what is trustless. It is worth highlighting a key point in the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper — “making payments over a communications channel without a trusted party”. There is nothing trustless in a centralised exchange, history seems to be repeating itself.

On September 15th, Ethereum transitioned from a Proof of Work (PoW) network to a Proof of Stake (PoS). This change to PoS means that consensus is now derived from a randomly selected group of validators instead of based on hash power from physical miners. In this report, we will focus on the rewards portion of the equation — where the rewards come from and estimate an annual percentage rate (APR) that stakers can expect. With PoS, instead of competing and solving a mathematic puzzle, validators must acquire ETH and then lock their ETH away in a contract, otherwise known as staking. Among the stakers, the creator of the next block is randomly chosen with the chances of being chosen to increase based on how much ETH one has staked. Stakers who complete consensus tasks are rewarded with ETH but if a participant acts dishonestly or is offline for too long, a portion of their staked funds is slashed.

Inflation, rising interest rates, and falling stock prices have added pressure on the consumer. Could Black Friday sales offer investors clues about what to expect of the holiday shopping?

 Pause and assess Any indication of a pause in hikes, especially from the Fed, should boost markets further Sentiment is extremely negative, which could support the upward move Softness in labor and inflation data would be key for investor sentiment

 Pause and assess Any indication of a pause in hikes, especially from the Fed, should boost markets further Sentiment is extremely negative, which could support the upward move Softness in labor and inflation data would be key for investor sentiment

       Is a bottom near?: Markets continue to worry about overtightening and recession Sentiment is extremely negative, which might suggest the downside is more limited Disinflation should boost sentiment, but it could take time