Bret Kenwell
Investment Analyst,
eToro US
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About Bret
Bret Kenwell is the US Investment Analyst at eToro, the trading and investing platform empowering you to invest, learn, and share. He has spent his career focused on market research and analysis. Mr. Kenwell’s work has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, TheStreet, Nasdaq, among many other publications. Prior to joining eToro, he worked as a financial journalist at TheStreet covering a variety of beats including the auto sector, technology space, and most recently the technical setups for the U.S. indices and individual stocks.
Bret's Articles
Retail sales were in-line with expectations last month, while the prior month’s readings were revised higher. The big question out of this report centers around tariffs – and whether consumers were doing their best to front-run potential price hikes as a result of the ongoing trade war, observes Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro.
Bret Kenwell
ECONOMICS
Friday’s employment report showed the economy added 228,000 jobs in March — beating even the highest estimate on Wall Street. While the unemployment rate crept up from 4.1% to 4.2%, last month’s jobs tally was revised significantly lower. Despite this, investors remain worried about the recent trade-war escalation, highlights Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro.
Bret Kenwell
ECONOMICS
Tickers: SPX
Known as one of the highest-quality banking stocks out there, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) in the financial space has succumbed to the market’s recent selling pressure. But for options traders, calls or bull call spreads could be one way to speculate on technical support holding, notes Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro.
Bret Kenwell
FINANCIALS
Tickers: JPM
Consumer confidence continues to come off its election-fueled sugar high from November, with the most recent reading hitting its lowest level since June. Confidence has dipped for a third straight month, while also missing economists’ expectations in each instance, highlights Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro.
Bret Kenwell
ECONOMICS