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Bret Kenwell

Investment Analyst,

eToro US

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

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.
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.
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.
ChatGPT exploded onto the scene in 2023 and with it came a rush into semiconductor stocks. The AI trade was hot that year, but we saw a bit of bifurcation in 2024, as the “haves” and the “have-nots” were separated. Unfortunately for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), it found itself on the latter list. But it may be worth a closer look for investors here, suggests Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro.