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Spot Markets Live, 23/11/23 (Lillium EVTOL, Dutch elections cont’d, India)

Comments in bold addressed towards audience members. Below is our new format – let us know what you think! JR 10:30 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone, especially my geopolitical zoomer down there in the south of Spain, dario… DGG 10:31 Hello all!! JR 10:31 some Turkey talk […]

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 […]

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 […]