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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d

Riskless business means not much business.

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Get ready for another round of regulatory shadow boxing

[FREE TO READ] If the non-banks are banks, who banks the unbanked?

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d

Here's this week's Nobel Prize for Charts entry form:

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FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

Chart for charts’ sake

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 1d

@secondmentions.bsky.social Can I get recognition for "the oleaginous legume" as second mention for soyabeans?

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

I love living in a boring country, but French politics is so messy now it’s delightful. Lecornu is literally this Simpsons meme now on.ft.com/3ITyu6U

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 2d

Jefferies reassured investors in its Point Bonita fund earlier this week: you don't primarily have exposure to First Brands, but its often IG-rated customers such as Walmart.

But when is a Walmart invoice not a really Walmart invoice?

@ericgplatt.ft.com and I explain: www.ft.com/content/dfb3...

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d

Here are some nice, not particularly conclusive charts on graduate unemployment.

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Jobpocalyse Now? Really?

Graduates are actually doing fine in a lot of countries

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 3d

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BlackRock’s big fat bitcoin haul

[FREE TO READ] Stacking sats like a champ

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

The weekend is soon here! And that means fun with charts. on.ft.com/3IE86xR

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

Chart for charts’ sake

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

Actually a very good question. Because of annoying fiddly technical reasons, some people still hit the paywall when they try to read Alphaville, not the reg wall, so some articles we make completely free so that there is no registration or paywall whatsoever.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

I mean, if you don't genuinely lol at this then I'm afraid we can't be friends.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

More amazeballs reporting from @bondhack.ft.com and @ericgplatt.ft.com

FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d

A dig into First Brands' invoice financing and who's left holding the bag.

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First Brands Group: dude, where’s my cash?

[FREE TO READ] Cleveland, we have a problem

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d

Natgas, prepare to be Figgied.

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Jane Street is getting physical

In commodities at least

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 3d

DB pensions chat with the head of backstops

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FTAV Q&A: Michelle Ostermann

[FREE TO READ] The UK Pension Protection Fund’s chief talks Canada envy, risk, reform, and public sector consolidation

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d

Jane Street is getting physical (in commodities) on.ft.com/431m0Rq

a woman says let 's get physical in a pixelated video

ALT: a woman says let 's get physical in a pixelated video

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d

Talk is cheap. Gold, not so much.

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So you want to talk about gold

[FREE TO READ] Marking the record high for so-called analogue bitcoin

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d

A neat chart on headline vs underlying US trade tariffs

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US tariffs are still *checks notes* around 10 per cent

Lots of mouth, varying amounts of trousers

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d

Whoa Bill Bailey won a Nobel prize.

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 3d

The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for his postmodern, dystopian novels, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature: on.ft.com/43dn191

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d

BlackRock's bitcoin ETF now manages nearly $100bn, making the asset manager the single largest known owner of bitcoin. The ETF now throws off nearly $250mn a year in fees for BlackRock. www.ft.com/content/0cc9...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d

😏 on.ft.com/46WNEA3

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4d

Up at Alphaville, I look at the constant expansion of the regulatory perimeter and present a new "notebook trilemma" www.ft.com/content/7c3a...

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 5d

Prop Will Eat Itself

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Are we approaching peak prop trading?

[FREE TO READ] Maybe! Maybe not!

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 6d

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Aston Martin will keep paying you to take their cars away

[FREE TO READ] The 112-year-old marque that burns cash like an AI startup

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 5d

Not if it's for this banger. www.ft.com/content/d811...

ARK Invest’s ‘seemingly outlandish’ economic forecasts

AI caramba

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 5d

Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Do macro releases really matter to stock punters?

Turns out yes, or at least some of them.

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