Posts tagged 'The Weekender'

The Weekender

| Dec 16 2011 21:19 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- The Sarko trade was launched. And quickly grew. Read more

The Weekender

| Dec 09 2011 21:45 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Post-euro currencies and post-euro economies were both charted. Read more

The Weekender

| Dec 02 2011 21:15 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- The German bond market was all about ‘buy and hold‘. Read more

The Weekender

| Nov 04 2011 21:05 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Greece teetered on the brink. Read more

The Weekender

| Oct 28 2011 21:30 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Many questions remained after a late night in Brussels… Read more

The Weekender

| Oct 14 2011 21:28 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- The US labour market declined. Read more

The Weekender

| Sep 30 2011 21:18 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We questioned the many assumptions behind a leveraged EFSF. Read more

The Weekender

| Sep 02 2011 23:44 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Bill Gross had something to say. Read more

The Weekender

| Aug 26 2011 23:01 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We broke the news of Deven Sharma stepping down. Read more

The Weekender

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| Aug 19 2011 21:00 | Comment |

On FT Alphaville this week,

- We asked whether the New York Fed should be worried about European banks. Read more

The weekender

| Aug 12 2011 22:59 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- There was excitement over SocGen and gold. Read more

The Weekender

| Jul 29 2011 22:19 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We looked in-depth at settlement fails. Read more

The weekender

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| Jul 22 2011 21:57 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We counted down to debtmageddon. Read more

The weekender

| Jul 15 2011 22:54 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We paid peanuts for ETFs and got… a lot of comments. Read more

The weekender

| Jul 01 2011 21:00 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Greek politicians and French bondholders rolled over in different ways. Read more

The Weekender

| Jun 03 2011 21:30 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We noted the calm before the volatility storm. Read more

The Weekender

| May 20 2011 21:54 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- We asked, how do you say bail-in in Swedish? Read more

The Weekender

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| May 13 2011 22:10 | Comment |

This week on FT Alphaville,

- Europe’s Greek-out! took one look at a hard restructure… Read more

The return of … The Weekender

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| May 06 2011 21:32 | Comment |

We’re going back — waaayyy back, into FT Alphaville history to resurrect “The Weekender” — a round-up of the week’s most entertaining, most enlightening, or simply most relevant, blog posts.

You know, something to read on those quiet Saturdays and Sundays. Read more