What the Stock Market is Predicting Around the Elections

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the Brief:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Market rally to highest point in six weeks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BTC and ETH up in part on Grayscale ETH trust becoming an SEC reporting company (Grayscale, like CoinDesk, is a unit of DCG.)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CBDCs (and CBDC skepticism) on the rise</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our main discussion: How markets are trading the U.S. presidential election in November. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A look at what different stock and other market preferences suggests about who Wall Street expects to win, including: </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Energy</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Private prisons</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Student loans</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Health care </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dollar</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Bitcoin</span></li> </ul>