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  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2026
    Markets
    The thing that everyone expected to happen has happened

    Trump wants the war to be over

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  • Monday, 9 March, 2026
    Markets
    A bad jobs report

    Plus, AI and productivity

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  • Saturday, 7 March, 2026
    Markets
    Chart of the Week: Europe’s extra energy tax

    A weaker euro deepens the pain from higher oil prices

    ImageHakyung Kim
    An illustration showing two fluctuating line graphs, one red and one blue, overlaid on New York City skyscrapers.
  • Friday, 6 March, 2026
    Markets
    Retail private credit is an unsolvable problem

    Plus Korea’s rollercoaster market

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  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Markets
    On ignoring geopolitics, buying bubbles and hoarding gold

    Insights from the UBS Investment Returns Yearbook

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  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Markets
    War, oil, growth and inflation

    Plus very very long-term interest rates

    ImageHakyung Kim
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  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    Markets
    What’s a safe asset now?

    Most of the old standbys are not working

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  • Monday, 2 March, 2026
    Markets
    The war and markets

    Time is the crucial factor

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  • Saturday, 28 February, 2026
    Markets
    Nvidia’s sales rocket while its shares flatline

    Is there a limit to how big a company can get?

    ImageRobert Armstrong
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  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
    Markets
    Global stock discounts vs US stock discounts

    Plus the fall in Treasury yields

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  • Thursday, 26 February, 2026
    Markets
    The Halo effect

    Heavy asset, low obsolescence . . . high returns?

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  • Wednesday, 25 February, 2026
    Markets
    The AI doomers aren’t done yet

    Plus AMD and Meta

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  • Tuesday, 24 February, 2026
    Markets
    The Citrini fuss exposes a market looking for an excuse to fall

    Fear > insight

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  • Monday, 23 February, 2026
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    Blue Owl and private credit’s structural problem

    Troubles at New York-based asset manager are making investors nervous about the wider industry

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  • Saturday, 21 February, 2026
    Markets
    Year of the equal-weighted S&P 500?

    The tide has turned against the cap-weighted index

    ImageHakyung Kim
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  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    Markets
    Nobody knows very much about where alpha comes from

    Statistics > Theory

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  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Markets
    Dollar doldrums

    We don’t believe in regime change, yet

    ImageHakyung Kim
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  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    Markets
    The software sell-off, part II

    A new kind of competition?

    ImageRobert Armstrong
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  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    Markets
    The housing market is not getting much better

    And neither is inflation

    ImageRobert Armstrong
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  • Saturday, 14 February, 2026
    Markets
    A much-needed Beveridge

    The signals that the Beveridge curve is sending about the US labour market

    ImageHakyung Kim
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  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    Markets
    The software sell-off (part one)

    It’s not a simple story

    ImageRobert Armstrong
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  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Markets
    Reason for hope on jobs

    Green shoots are in cyclical sectors

    ImageRobert Armstrong
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  • Wednesday, 11 February, 2026
    Markets
    The US consumer is slowing

    But only a little

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  • Tuesday, 10 February, 2026
    Markets
    Memory investors have forgotten the last cycle

    Plus Takaichi and markets

    ImageRobert Armstrong
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  • Monday, 9 February, 2026
    Markets
    A chilly January in the job market

    Plus, activism and AI in software

    Hakyung Kim & Oliver Barnes
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