DAPP News and Press, VanEck Vectors¿ Digital Transformation E From 05/24/22

Since its peak at the end of 2021, nearly $8 trillion in market cap has been knocked off the S&P 500 alone. As home prices were leaping over the past few years, households sustained spending by borrowing against their rising equity. It’s spooky that this cycle has combi...

The war in Ukraine clearly triggered the spike in oil prices and in agricultural prices as well. Inflation, interest rates and Fed policy are linked. Similarly, supply chain disruptions, the slowdown in China, and big-tech reversals are all Covid-related. The bottom line right now...

The DJIA is down -13.97%, the S&P 500 is down -18.14% and the NASDAQ is down -27.42%. Other markets are also being affected, and are likely to continue being affected in a serious manner for as long as the Fed is in and raising rates. They say that this is necessary to combat infl...

Recession risks are rising, with a European recession, oil embargo risks, and China’s zero-Covid uncertainties adding to Fed rate hikes as headwinds. China’s risks are multi-layered and hard for markets to discount. In our view, IMF officials are much more precise in...

Exactly a year ago I shared a chart here that represented “An Epic Set Of Alligator Jaws.” It plotted the weighting of the energy sector within the S&P 500 Index versus the combined weightings of the tech and communications services sectors. The energy sector has ris...

This article is a short outline of what I see as the macroeconomic effects of a possible continuation of weakness in crypto financial markets. The direct effects would be small, although weakness in crypto is interleaved with the fortunes of the tech sector. It is certainly possib...

We see volatility in equities, but volatility in fixed income is even higher than equity. The first thing that many investors look to diversify into in periods of high inflation and rising rates are real assets and real estate, in particular. I think blockchain, as a technology an...

Let’s look at how great businesses are investing to make the physical world an integrated part of the digital experience consumers have spent two years perfecting - and now expect as they reengage. In 2020, we saw consumers doing three or four times more activities in the digit...

Among the most challenging aspects of late has been to try and hold a positive medium-term (one- to three-year) view in the midst of very aggressive, downward-facing, fast-moving, cross-asset selloffs. While inflation does seem to have peaked along with expectations and breakevens, th...

Stock markets have seen immense volatility this year. The sharply rising inflation, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and central banks raising interest rates are all weighing on equities. With volatility expected to remain high, reducing equity risk can be challenging but achie...