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Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary offers insights and analysis on upcoming, important economic issues that potentially impact global financial markets. Our team shares their thinking on global economic developments, market news and other factors that often influence investment opportunities and strategies. Our readers appreciate its timeliness, depth of analysis, and quality of research.
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Tue December 6, 2022
The more we learn about cryptocurrencies, it seems, the less we know. For example, we last reported that there were about 9,000 cryptocurrencies in 2021.
Author(s): William H. Witherell, Ph.D. | Mon December 5, 2022
November saw strong advances in Chinese stocks, particularly in the final week. The US-listed SPDR S&P China ETF, GXC, for example, advanced 23.5% on a total-return basis. This advance comes in what has been a very bad year for Chinese stocks.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun December 4, 2022
We see more and more payment liabilities revealed as the FTX affair unfolds. Successive bankruptcies make headlines. Lawsuits originate against sports personalities and celebrities who garnered fees for advertising themselves as endorsers or supporters within the crypto space.
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sat December 3, 2022
Dear Clients & Friends,
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu December 1, 2022
In an embarrassment to one user of ESG ratings and factor models, FactSet’s Truevalue Labs rated FTX higher than it rated Exxon in leadership and governance. Below is a screenshot of the ratings posted and tweeted. We verified this from Reddit.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed November 30, 2022
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has sent a letter, excerpted below, to the following key leaders in the House and Senate:
Author(s): David W. Berson, Ph.D. | Tue November 29, 2022
In the spirit of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we look not at the ghosts of Christmas, but at the ghosts of recessions in the recent past, the present, and the near future. Past
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun November 27, 2022
Readers offered a range of responses to the fifth installment in our ESG series, on Texas anti-ESG policy and its impacts. (See “ESG Part 5: Texas,” https://www.cumber.com/market-commentary/esg-part-5-texas.)
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sat November 26, 2022
Cumberland Advisors’ Friday, November 25, 2022 Week in Review
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Fri November 25, 2022
The collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX — the third largest of such exchanges — on the heels of significant price declines in the value of many cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, for example, has lost 70% of its value from its high on November 10, 2021) highlights what many have known for some…