🚨 Remember when the US Treasury caused that major yen rally in ‘98? Us neither www.ft.com/content/5506...
Remember when the US Treasury caused that major yen rally in ‘98?
Us neither
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Robin Wigglesworth
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Chuffed that the NYC CFA Institute and the Fixed Income Analysts Society have jointly invited me to give a talk about my new book on the history of the bond market on September 24. fiasi.org/events/event...
2026/09/24 | Debt, Markets, and Modern Finance: A Conversation with Robin Wigglesworth - Fixed Income Analyst Society, Inc
Join CFA Society New York in partnership with FIASI for an exclusive conversation with Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times correspondent and columnist, editor of FT Alphaville—the Financial Times' awa...
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Eligible pre-IPO investors in SpaceX can sell the first 20% of their stake as of Thursday. SpaceX has a staggered lock-up release schedule to “meter” stock sales but I argue in @alphaville.ft.com this turns the overhang into a prolonged hangover for the stock. No paywall: www.ft.com/content/6a8c...
SpaceX’s staggered lock-up release prolongs the pain
The biggest IPO wanted to avoid a cliff edge of insider selling but now has 12 months of uncertainty
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Struggling to make sense of AstraZeneca-BMS - @bryce.lol casts a sceptical eye over what the deal could bring www.ft.com/content/eddb...
Struggling to make sense of AstraZeneca-BMS
All about oncology? A cardio workout? Patent-cliff avoidance? American dreaming?
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🚨Come for the interactive chart showing how BofE estimates for the QT 10yr gilt yield premium has evolved. Stay for the ... interactive chart showing how BofE estimates for the QT 10yr gilt yield premium has evolved. www.ft.com/content/0d40...
FT scoop: Citadel buys Situational Awareness equity holdings after steep AI losses www.ft.com/content/5fb4...
Citadel buys Situational Awareness equity holdings after steep AI losses
Deal comes after Leopold Aschenbrenner’s investment firm held overnight crunch talks with investors
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🚨Can we make sense of Warsh? We can damn well try. www.ft.com/content/17bc...
Trying to make sense of Warsh
Abdicating responsibility or fortifying the markets with anti-fragility serum?
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The Erie Canal was one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in history, and arguably made New York what it is today. But its most influential legacy is not the 19th century waterway itself, it’s how it was paid for… youtu.be/x_8-5RJVnLM
How New York paid for the canal that brought America together | The Story of Money
YouTube video by The Story of Money Podcast | Financial Times
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Very glad to report: Humans 1, AI 0 What a load of rubbish from our silicon Warsh www.ft.com/content/76b4...
The LLM FOMC votes to raise
Silicon Warsh is a hawk
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Awful news. He loved Forest, cycling, Pabst and bonds. But most importantly he was a genuinely lovely human being.
FT Alphaville@alphaville.ft.com · last wk.
I think the enshittification of Google Search is hugely exaggerated, but the enshittification of Gmail is weirdly under-appreciated.
Alex Selby-Boothroyd@alexselbyb.bsky.social · last wk.Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!
Warning: may contain shameful bragging. open.substack.com/pub/btfd/p/a...
A fabulous update
Warning: may contain gleeful bragging
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this just a tremendous podcast - @robinwigglesworth.ft.com and @robarmstrong.bsky.social tell the story of Jesse Livermorem the legendary trader who made and lost several fortunes in the early 20th century. One of the great stories in finance told with vim and enthusiasm. www.ft.com/content/45b6...
The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all
Jesse Livermore turned speculation into legend. But his life ended in tragedy.
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This is excellent. www.ft.com/content/b1d6... The death of secular stagnation
The death of secular stagnation
And the interest-rate reckoning to come
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