Markets & the Economy: Are Investors too Confident?
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Wall Street’s start to 2026 has been like the scripted first drive in a football game, the offense in rhythm with a balanced attack to take an early lead.
Everyone expects a ‘run it hot’ economy and the market is rushing to price it in.
Can it stay this easy?
Add it to the ETF Line Up
New Launches: (week ending 1/16) a few highlights…
- TDOG~ 21Shares Dogecoin ETF
- LUNL~ Defiance Daily Target 2x Long LUNR ETF
- RKTL~ Defiance Daily Target 2x Long RKT ETF
- CLNK~ Bitwise Chainlink ETF
New Filings: Global X, Sprott, Tema
A couple of timely thematic ETFs filed…
- Global X Space Tech ETF (Ticker tba)
- REXC~ Sprott Rare Earth Ex China ETF
Space ETF filed, snagging a potentially lucrative ticker…
- NASA~ Tema Space Innovators ETF
ETF Check Up: Flowshow
Bulls on Parade: The rolling 3mo and 6mo flows into equity ETFs is at an all-time high…with a record in 2x Leveraged assets and a decline in cash like ETF AUM

The number of new ETF issuers entering the market for the 1st time has broken the record for the third year in a row…
