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  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Global trade
    Markets calling off America’s Greatest Depression

    For now, at least!

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    US Treasury bonds
    The trades threatening the Treasury market

    A guide to the hedge fund strategies fuelling the tariff turmoil

    A pedestrian walks past the US Treasury building in Washington, DC
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Tariffs are coming for my . . .  nuclear warheads?

    Imports boom

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Gilts
    Uh oh, 30-year gilts are being weird again

    So long, sweet price

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Equities
    Goldman’s anatomy of a bear market

    News you can use

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Has America discovered its ‘moron risk premium’?

    Bond bombshell

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    US trade
    Deutsche’s dollar downer

    ‘The end of an era’

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Sovereign debt
    An emergency rate cut from the Fed?

    A fixed income freakout

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    FTAV’s further reading

    Lutnick; Quartz; measles; dire wolves

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    US Treasury bonds
    The Treasury basis trade rears its head again

    Bills and bonds and Treasury basis trades, oh my!

    The Tin Man, Dorothy, and the Scarecrow
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    S&P 500
    The S&P 500’s latest ‘Black Monday’ in one chart

    You call that a crash?

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Global Economy
    Avoiding Kindleberger’s Trap

    Why doubts over the Fed’s dollar swap lines are such a big deal

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Office for National Statistics UK
    It’s possible that Pink broke UK hotel inflation. Has the ONS fixed it?

    We check out the data, and find room for improvement

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    FTAV’s further reading

    Cory Booker’s Oura data; egg week; Bluesky; the maths of crochet

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    US equities
    Did an anonymous X account send markets reeling today?

    Journalists really need bulletproof BS meters right now

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    And the FTAV chart-quiz winner is . . . 

    The plots against America

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Global trade
    So much winning — in 15 charts

    The fallout from ‘Liquidation Day’

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    FTAV’s further reading

    Dalí in Wonderland; complexity; alternative dimensions; lots of tariff content

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    UK quantitative easing
    Where the Bank of England’s QE programme went wrong

    And what can still be done about it

  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Global Economy
    Goldman Sachs sees US recession if full tariffs go into effect

    And it’s almost 50-50 even if they don’t

  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    How imported eggs saved American breakfast

    Eggflation was stalled by Turkey (the country, not the bird)

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  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    US economy
    America’s endangered ‘exorbitant privilege’

    Et tu, Goldman?

  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Global Economy
    Powell: In it until the bitter (?) end

    The Fed Chair says he plans to serve out his term

  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    FTAV’s Friday chart quiz

    Sharp charts, spitting masters

  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    US equities
    Yesterday was a big day for BTFD

    Liberating retail traders of their money

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