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Purchasing managers' index

Did the Bank of England base its hiking pause on bad data?

Trying to diffuse the PMI situation

3 hours ago

The FT Alphaville Pub Quiz is back

Two bouts of intellectual torture in one year 🥰🥰🥰

Sovereign bonds

The amazing ‘moneyness’ of Treasuries

The benefits of convenience

The violent past of the man behind Victoria plc’s troublesome subsidiary

Auditor’s warning adds to scrutiny of Hanover Flooring and its director Batash Karim

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc

Bed Bath & Beyond: a quick capital-structure primer for Apes

You’ll get nothing, and like it!

London fights for its future

Decades of disjointed government policy have eroded UK equity culture

Sid’s missing, presumed dead

Saddling up for the unicorn massacre

Horn today, gone tomorrow

FTAV’s further reading

Lego returns; Satanic rebellions; IMF lending; and THAT bloody VAR call

Notes on “the face of fiscal dysentery”

SocGen’s Albert Edwards on bad mojo, mad charts and the ghosts of 1987

Sri Lanka’s US cavalry is here

Too bad they didn’t bring any big guns

Chinese politics & policy

Estimating Chinese corruption

Flies and tigers alike are being swatted

US interest rates

Reader poll: which of these charts belong in the Axes of Evil series?

Bank of America takes a very long view on short rates, and lots of other stuff

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Fintech
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FTAV’s further reading
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Wednesday, 27 September, 2023

Global Economy
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Maybe it’s capitulation, maybe it’s time for tin hats
Wednesday, 27 September, 2023

ESG investing
ESG-friendly US equities have been underperforming. Why?
Measuring the value of virtue
Wednesday, 27 September, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
Google’s antitrust secrecy; food; productivity; and another softball SBF profile
Wednesday, 27 September, 2023

Asset allocation
The art of keeping it simple, by JPMorgan’s Jan Loeys
“Our industry does seem to love complexity and to abhor simplicity”
Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

Americas companies
How Venezuela lost Citgo
It didn’t have to happen this way
Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

When economists tackle happiness
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Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

UK Data
Fact-checking Liz Truss’s debt interest claims
Or: a vibes-based discussion about international public sector accrual accounting for inflation-linked bonds
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FTAV’s further reading
Altman; Musk; Swift; the BoE; the Pope; lab meat; vaporwave; etc
Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

Sovereign bonds
Who’s afraid of the Treasury basis trade?
Almost everyone except Goldman Sachs, it seems
Monday, 25 September, 2023

Fund management
Zero-day options now account for 50% of S&P options volumes
Carpe nulla diem
Monday, 25 September, 2023

World
And the winner is . . .
Drumroll
Monday, 25 September, 2023

Sovereign debt
How Sri Lanka can uncover its mysterious legal adversary
Bond doc adventures
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FTAV’s further reading
WGA strike; “rewards”; Keir Starmer; inheritance tax; Russian tropics; etc