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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Is there an obesity drug bubble? Premium content

    A big market narrative with an eerie absence of sceptics

    Injection pens of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Inflation and consumer sentiment Premium content

    Plus bad food stocks, and more on the jobs report

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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Overreaction watch, no-landing edition Premium content

    And the sukuk market

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    The jobs report was a relief, not a revelation Premium content

    And rising long yields

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Sujeet Indap
    Private credit’s latest contraption Premium content

    There goes the neighbourhood

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  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Jennifer Hughes
    What we mean by ‘recession’ matters Premium content

    Downturns don’t have to be extreme events to affect markets

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  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Aiden Reiter
    The trouble with pinning down the neutral rate Premium content

    Don’t rely on easy r* narratives

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  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    The AT&T-DirecTV mistake Premium content

    How a $67bn deal went wrong

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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    How to measure liquidity Premium content

    It’s hard

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    What kind of rally is this anyway? Premium content

    Tech stocks re-emerge

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  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    China’s market stimulus experiment Premium content

    Plus rehashes of Fed epiphenomenalism and small caps

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  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Markets
    The stock market can’t save social security Premium content

    Arbitrage for the public good?

    A hand holding US dollars
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    What if the Fed doesn’t matter? Premium content

    An interesting heresy

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Markets
    Immigration and job creation Premium content

    The labour market is softer than it appears

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    For the Fed, the destination matters much more than the pace Premium content

    Investors have no choice but to guess at the neutral rate

    Jay Powell
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    The market looks ahead to the Fed’s rate cut Premium content

    Investors are betting on 50 basis points and expect a soft landing for the economy

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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Is it mid caps’ moment?

    Plus Mexico’s judicial fallout

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Inflation: resurrection Premium content

    Replying to readers on price increases

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Markets
    Alan S Blinder: ‘The stars look like they’re aligning for a soft landing’ Premium content

    The former Fed vice-chair on monetary policy, the Fed’s record and the presidential race

    Alan Blinder,
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Inflation is still dead Premium content

    Plus Apple’s buybacks

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Where is the small cap revolution? Premium content

    It may never come

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  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    The curious case of Apple Premium content

    And high margin expectations

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  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Remain calm Premium content

    And oil supply

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    The Kroger-Albertsons deal has a chance Premium content

    Plus the real estate rally

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Robert Armstrong
    Commodities and the soft landing Premium content

    And Turkish stocks’ wild ride

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