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Private equity
US vet visits are down. A recession omen, or is price gouging to blame?

Dissecting a dead-cat indicator

Exchange traded funds
The belated CLO ETF stress test

$JAAArgh

Financial & markets regulation
UK banks regulator scraps ‘protectionist’ new collateral rule

Are there foreign covered bonds in your buffer?

Artificial intelligence
AI hype is drowning in slopaganda

Grifters gonna grift

UK employment
What rhymes with ‘fresco’ and possibly skewed Britain’s employment data?

Shock and AWE

Corporate bonds
Off-the-run credit liquidity is the worst since March 2020

But fresh credit remains weirdly healthy

Gambling industry
Once more, why is ‘insider betting’ a thing?

It’s certainly novel

US dollar
Dark days for the less-mighty dollar

The world’s reserve currency gets a sharp shock

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