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Spot Markets Live, 21/11/23 (OpenAI, Milei, S&P equity concentration)

All comments in bold addressed to audience members Julian Rimmer 10:31 Good morning, aloha and greetings fellow market wizards Apologies for airwave silence yesterday but technological problems and a race against time defeated us. Nonetheless, here we are this morning, postively brimming with vim and information And greetings, Dario Dario Garcia Giner 10:32 Greetings Julian, […]

In The Blind Spot (Radio Free Europe gives way to TikTok meme warfare)

Dear Subscribers, Since nobody can agree if central bank losses really matter, and/or if raising the minimum reserve requirement makes sense or not, I thought it might be helpful to revisit perspectives from 2009 to see what highly respected central bank voices were saying back then about the prospect of sticky QE exits. So here, […]

Spot Markets Live, 16/11/23 (Train strikes, Attritable Weaponry, U.S. Housing)

Julian Rimmer 10:30 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards you can tell that Christmas is fast approaching not the sound of jingle bells or Christmas lights sparkling on the high street but rather an announcement from the train unions that they are going on strike more of this later but first, buenos dias […]

Spot Markets Live, 14/11/23 ( Tesla, Japanese Carry Trade, Catalonia)

Julian Rimmer 10:31 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards Nunc tempus loquendi joined once again, this grim, damp autumnal morning by our geopolitical zoomer, Dario hola Dario Garcia Giner 10:31 Hola! Julian Rimmer 10:32 So, Dario, a disturbing anecdote Dario Garcia Giner 10:32 Do share Julian Rimmer 10:32 When I was young, my […]

Spot Markets Live, 13/11/23 ( Moody’s, AirBNB, Panama Canal cont’d)

Comments in bold addressed to audience members Julian Rimmer 10:30 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards Nunc tempus loquendi This morning, I am once again joined by our geopolitical Zoomer, Dario The Zoomer types, writes and thinks quickly, deftly, lightly switching from one subject to another with no more forethought than a swallow […]

In the Blind Spot (Spanish sovereignty, technocracy and stablecoins)

Dear Blind Spotters, It’s Remembrance Sunday so I’m going to keep today’s intro short. My main value-add of the week is that I had the opportunity to interview City Minister/Economic Secretary to the Treasury Andrew Griffith at Politico’s first-ever UK Financial Services summit on Thursday. He told me that the reason pensions reform was missing […]

Spot Markets Live, 10/11/23 (Repo markets, Adam Glapinski, Ozempic)

(Comments directed towards audience members in bold) Julian Rimmer 10:30 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards Izabella Kaminska 10:30 Morning. How are you today? I have a bit of a headache I confess. Julian Rimmer 10:30 I’m very sorry to hear this Izabella Kaminska 10:30 .Not just because I had to do three […]

Spot Markets Live 09/11/23, (China, Adani Group, EPS Growth)

(All comments in bold addressed towards audience members) Julian Rimmer 10:30 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards. Nunc tempus loquendi first of all, we have some major news in the house and congratulations to bestow on our resident Zoomer Dario has passed his driving test Plaudits Dario Dario Garcia Giner 10:31 9 years […]