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Tuesday, 25th September 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Since the crisis, a preference for debt markets over bank loans

Since the crisis, a preference for debt markets over bank loans

But the dollar continues to dominate.

By: Colby Smith

Further reading

Elsewhere on Tuesday, -- When is it time to worry ...

By: Jemima Kelly

The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets

  1. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  2. The broken conversation about financial regulation
  3. The improbably profitable, loss-making Blue Prism
  4. The EM rout is not made in America
  5. Wages and growth and honestly we just give up
  6. Britain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabled
  7. There is a FIRE that never goes out
  8. The WeWork Garden of Eden
  9. IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop
  10. There's only so much a central bank can do alone
  11. Eight questions every first-time buyer should ask
  12. MiFID II: not all doom and gloom
  13. Tesla: getting to Q3 profitability
  14. Turkey contagion fears are overblown [Update]
  15. The chance of an inflation shock may be higher than you think
  16. Sorry Tim, the humanity is not being drained out of music
  17. Digital crop circles
  18. What could go wrong here?
  19. Sirius Minerals: money for a hole in the ground
  20. The Bank of England has a strange idea of what QE achieved
The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now "airdropping" tokens from rockets

“ASKfm kicks off a new stunt - this time without killing a sherpa”.

By: Jemima Kelly

This week

Labour's worker ownership plan looks like a tax plan

Labour's worker ownership plan looks like a tax plan

A little for the workers, a lottle more for the Treasury.

By: Dan McCrum

Repatriation update: flows dwindle

Repatriation update: flows dwindle

Oh, and more buybacks.

By: Jamie Powell

Markets Live

No Markets Live today — catastrophic tech fail, sorry

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Further reading

Killing plants; secret scalpers; Helicopter Ben; trolls; anti-vaxxing; Soviet rock; and much more...

By: Jamie Powell

Beware the Hindenburg Omen?

  1. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  2. The broken conversation about financial regulation
  3. The improbably profitable, loss-making Blue Prism
  4. The EM rout is not made in America
  5. Wages and growth and honestly we just give up
  6. Britain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabled
  7. There is a FIRE that never goes out
  8. The WeWork Garden of Eden
  9. IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop
  10. There's only so much a central bank can do alone
  11. Eight questions every first-time buyer should ask
  12. MiFID II: not all doom and gloom
  13. Tesla: getting to Q3 profitability
  14. Turkey contagion fears are overblown [Update]
  15. The chance of an inflation shock may be higher than you think
  16. Sorry Tim, the humanity is not being drained out of music
  17. Digital crop circles
  18. What could go wrong here?
  19. Sirius Minerals: money for a hole in the ground
  20. The Bank of England has a strange idea of what QE achieved
Beware the Hindenburg Omen?

Nah.

By: Colby Smith

Varoufakis thinks Google gives us nothing in return

Varoufakis thinks Google gives us nothing in return

Is the Greek right?

By: Jamie Powell

Last week

Thoughts for the weekend

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Thoughts for the weekend

“There's no SeaWorld coupon.”

By: FT Alphaville

A resident of New Bern, NC, may in fact have a new boat

A resident of New Bern, NC, may in fact have a new boat

An Alphaville investigation on the law of abandoned vessels.

By: Brendan Greeley

Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line

  1. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  2. Wot is colour
  3. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  4. Wot is gravity
  5. Pie in the sky
  6. Some help please
Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line

Won't someone please think of the colour blind?

By: Jamie Powell

How do you solve a problem like Wonga loans?

How do you solve a problem like Wonga loans?

Investing in good faith.

By: Thomas Hale

Markets Live

Friday, 21st September 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Indian financials are getting smashed

What is going on?

By: Jamie Powell

Further Reading

Challenges to normalisation; Apprenticed in the executive bathroom; Alternative influence; Mind coddling; Corbynism 2.0; and more...

By: Dan McCrum

There is no Third Bridge sell report on Wirecard

  1. Revisiting Wirecard’s big Indian deal
  2. Dietmar Knöchelmann and the ICC-Cal affair
  3. A brief Wirecard update
  4. JCap on Wirecard: a search for the Asian business
  5. Rupee do: what is Wirecard buying?
  6. Wirecard: a rolling processor gathers no loss
  7. Wirecard – calculating the adjustments
  8. Wirecard: adjust your perspective (part 2)
  9. Wirecard: adjust your perspective (part 1)
  10. Wirecard Gibraltar and an asset rich wind-up
  11. The strange case of Ashazi: Wirecard in Bahrain, via Singapore
  12. The House of Wirecard
  13. The Wirecard documents – Update 2
There is no Third Bridge sell report on Wirecard

“Someone has got their wires crossed”.

By: Dan McCrum

Overheard in the Long Room: Amazon to the moon?

Overheard in the Long Room: Amazon to the moon?

Julius Baer think Bezos' rocket may be running low on fuel.

By: Jamie Powell

Markets Live

Thursday, 20th September 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

America's economic sugar high is starting to wear off

America's economic sugar high is starting to wear off

Longer-term growth forecasts are turning lower.

By: Colby Smith

Sky - place your bids tomorrow

Sky - place your bids tomorrow

Takeover Panel sets terms for auction to start Friday.

By: Dan McCrum

Further reading

Instagram; golf; justice; the belt and road; Libya; and much more.

By: Thomas Hale

Evergrande: debt behemoth

Evergrande: debt behemoth

The investment portfolio as a window into China's largest real estate company.

By: Jamie Powell

China wants to make machines and tools, too

China wants to make machines and tools, too

If tariffs aren't the answer, what is?

By: Brendan Greeley

Tilray is nuts. When's the crash?

  1. This is Musk, when's the crash?
  2. This is nuts, when's the crash?
  3. This is the dumbest thing we’ve seen in a long time. When’s the crash?
  4. This is corporate venture capital. When’s the crash?
  5. This is nuts. When’s the crash?
  6. This is nuts, when’s the valuation-gymnastics crash?
  7. This is nuts, when’s the tantrum?
Tilray is nuts. When's the crash?

Pot stock short-squeeze reefer madness.

By: Dan McCrum

Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition

  1. The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak
  2. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  3. The London School of Cryptonomics
  4. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  5. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  6. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  7. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  8. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  9. About that Petro
  10. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  11. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  12. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  13. ICO regulator anger translator
  14. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  15. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  16. Bank analyst very proud of his cryptocurrency mining rig
  17. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  18. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  19. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies
  20. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Cryptocurrencies
Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition

Regulation of ICOs and crypto-exchanges is a “matter of urgency”.

By: Dan McCrum

Markets Live

Wednesday, 19th September 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

The broken conversation about financial regulation

  1. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  2. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  3. The improbably profitable, loss-making Blue Prism
  4. The EM rout is not made in America
  5. Wages and growth and honestly we just give up
  6. Britain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabled
  7. There is a FIRE that never goes out
  8. The WeWork Garden of Eden
  9. IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop
  10. There's only so much a central bank can do alone
  11. Eight questions every first-time buyer should ask
  12. MiFID II: not all doom and gloom
  13. Tesla: getting to Q3 profitability
  14. Turkey contagion fears are overblown [Update]
  15. The chance of an inflation shock may be higher than you think
  16. Sorry Tim, the humanity is not being drained out of music
  17. Digital crop circles
  18. What could go wrong here?
  19. Sirius Minerals: money for a hole in the ground
  20. The Bank of England has a strange idea of what QE achieved
The broken conversation about financial regulation

Current discussions are full of omissions and over-simplifications.

By: Thomas Hale

Further reading

The lottery diet; An evolutionary theory for the variability hypothesis; Re-emerging currency mismatches; Sweet, sweet taxes in Boulder; We're scared of chemicals

By: Dan McCrum

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