Europe’s bonfire of the vaccines (POLITICO)
By Carlo Martuscelli, Hanne Cokelaere · Dec 14, 2023 “Be prepared,” goes the scout motto. The European Union is discovering there is such a thing as being too prepared. An analysis by POLITICO reveals that at least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries during the pandemic now lie in landfills across […]
War fatigue splits Ukraine’s politicians and soldiers (POLITICO)
By Veronika Melkozerova · Dec 5, 2023, 7:21 AM KYIV — More than 21 months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine the mood is turning grim in Kyiv — with tensions between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top general, Valery Zaluzhny, spilling into the open. Last year’s successes, as Ukraine first blunted Russia’s […]
ECB faces up to a self-made paradox on green finance (POLITICO)
By Ben Munster, Geoffrey Smith · Nov 24, 2023, 2:05 PM The European Central Bank: You all need to spend half a trillion euros to prevent a disaster that will make the planet uninhabitable. Also the European Central Bank: We’d love to help, you understand, but we’re legally required to only make things worse. Let […]
Pfizer is suing Poland over vaccines. This is how we got here (POLITICO)
By Carlo Martuscelli · Nov 22, 2023 It took a while, but the bill finally came. On Tuesday evening, Gazeta Prawa reported that U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is taking the Polish government to court over missing payments for 60 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with BioNTech. The lawsuit, which comes as Poland […]
BoE considers HMT indemnity for losses ‘binding’ (POLITICO)
By Izabella Kaminska · Nov 21, 2023 LONDON ― The Bank of England would likely treat any failure by the U.K. Treasury to transfer funds to cover losses related to quantitative easing as a breach of the indemnity it was issued by government in 2009, policymakers were told on Tuesday. The guarantee, that was theoretically […]
**IMPORTANT** The Uber surge pricing model really is coming to liquidity markets
Lorie Logan gives nod that The Blind Spot’s intraday liquidity thesis is accurate.
Dentists, bakers and trained killers: Meet the French navy’s elite crew (POLITICO)
By Laura Kayali · Oct 23, 2023 ABOARD THE FRENCH HELICOPTER CARRIER TONNERRE — John Denver’s “Country Roads,” a folk song from 1971, resounds through the Tonnerre. It’s 7:30 a.m., and some of the crew aboard the Mistral-class amphibious helicopter carrier are already eating breakfast — loading up on calories ahead of a planned exercise […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript, 20/10/23 (M&A pipeline, Cbank funding models and Poland latest)
Today Izabella Kaminska11:29 … Morning from Warsaw, Poland SMLers, where I was moderating a CFA panel yesterday about Poland’s economic policy outlook. Ben Harrington11:31 Hey! Betaville back in the house! Little old Betaville Izabella Kaminska11:32 So yep, Im in warsaw. It was actually super fun this panel because nobody agreed with anyone and one point […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript, 16/10/23 (Polish elections, VC armageddon, Reserve requirements)
Izabella Kaminska 10:30 Hello everyone… Is there anyone out there? Julian Rimmer 10:30 only me? Good morning, aloha and greetings fellow market wizards. Well, the Indian summer is very definitely over, the nights are shortening, and there’s an uncomfortable sense of impending doom. Izabella Kaminska 10:31 Good morning everyone. But, I have to say, the […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript, 13/10/23 (Bonds, Uranium, Wine, Polish elections)
Izabella Kaminska10:26 10:28 Hello and welcome back to SPOT MARKETS LIVE. Yes, we’re back. Mainly because the markets are looking a little iffy again. But also because we finally found ourselves a solid partner for a daily gig. 10:31 Just waiting for the rabble to arrive. Sorry, typos already, so deleted the last comment. Hello […]