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One of the toughest parts of having a real seat is constantly putting on and maintain risk Strats like me have the luxury of picking and choosing like 5 trades a year at opportune moments which isn’t the game being played on the other side

Let me get this straight, Trump gets his ass handed to him in historic fashion by Iran and his next move is to… checks notes… suck up to North Korea??

my 2c: It’s genuinely really hard to trace back any of Japan’s fx weakness to its fiscal position. You can trace back to monetary but even there the explanation is incomplete. Japan’s nisa flows and corporate outbound FDI activity are far better drivers. On latter fiscal actually helps not hurts!

Tobias Harris@tobiasharris.bsky.social · 4w ago

Arguably it hinges on more than alignment. The prime minister is set on a course of action fiscally that has eroded confidence in the currency. Absent changing that, hard to see how the yen doesn't resume its slide the moment this intervention ends.

I haven’t read the hyperscaler reports yet, but what is it about the revenues now, aside from just valuation and positioning that is encouraging investors now? Is it services like bedrock and azure foundry? Or further acceleration in cloud as backlogs come to fruition

I don’t think it’s fair to say this was all Leopold given even non AI stuff was falling - like space basket has absolutely shit the bed.

Not a fan of Mann. Not because I don’t think a hike is wrong - it could be fine - but her flip flopping isn’t helpful. What is her framework beyond fading marker pricing

Having not done training at a large investment bank is both a blessing and a curse for me I’ve missed out on years of training (amazing primers, exposure etc) and experience but gained different experience and hopefully a different way of thinking. Random comment from seeing some of the primers

Does anyone here have a good sense of why Us defence systems have struggled so much with Iranian drones and missiles? Stuff seems to be getting through every day and hitting targets