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A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5

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ft.comHow to read FT Alphaville for freeFind us by email, RSS, X, Bluesky, and Terminal (sort of)

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as.ft.comWhat makes a project ringfence? For Metlen, it’s complicatedSo near, and yet solar

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ft.comAnthropic S-1: Inside the 335-page IPO planAnthropic’s planned listing could be the biggest stock market debut in history

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ft.comThe rise and fall of the £150bn ‘diversified growth fund’ phenomenonWhat the investment experiment taught us about the asset management industry

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ft.comFTAV’s Friday chart quizTil Death Do Us Chart

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ftav.substack.comOf SpaceX, Tesla, and metaphysical horrorAlso: French bonds, bank taxes, index fire escapes, vests, and Liz Truss

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ft.comHow nervous are bond markets about France?Dusting off our apples-for-apples spreadsheet

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ft.comA bond is like a party balloon(Bear with us)

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ft.comGuess these gilet prices and we’ll predict which bank you work atFully vested

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ft.comThe rise of index vigilantesNot the regulators we want, or the regulators we need. But at least it’s something?

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as.ft.comOh OK, we’ll write something about the new Truss bookLettuce first applaud her productivity

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ft.comIs CoreWeave the Silicon Valley Bank of 2026?Perhaps, but not in the way you might think

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ft.comWhat has actually battered the bond market?A fixed-income whodunit

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ft.comHas America’s wave of anti-globalisation populism peaked?When voters turn, leaders follow

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ft.comIt’s nearly FT Alphaville's 20th birthday. We did a chart show to celebrate!If you want, you can buy some of them. No pressure. But it’s for charity, so if you don’t you’re a bad person

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ftav.substack.comAttention is all you needPlus: Pakistan, Italy, Australia, Deloitte, big oil, and dork vests

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as.ft.comSizing that ‘unlimited’ insurance capitalQuite big, but still quite far away

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ft.comSo. About next year’s earnings . . .Beat IT

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I hereby declare Alphaville’s Art of the Chart OPEN.

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Looking forward to tonight's second edition of our London Art of the Chart (in a Church) show with the @alphaville.ft.com crew. There will be limited exclusive merch for sale, including these tasty Visual Vocabulary t-shirts. www.ft.com/content/ca7b...

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ft.comCoreWeave better hurry up figuring out how to tap insurers for cashWe’ve seen this McBee movie before . . .

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ft.comMacro analysts: in aggregate, not uselessOne must consider sellsiders happy

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But what is all that borrowed money being spent on — apart from paying the interest on all that borrowed money? Our friends over on @alphaville.ft.com trawled the ledgers of world governments so we don't have to, and the results are ... illuminating. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/GGJkQWv

ft.trib.alHow governments spend moneyCharting the outline of civilisation

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ft.comIt’s been a bad year for turning lawsuits into earningsLitigation funders discovered a way to book the verdict before the trial. Guess what happened next

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as.ft.comMaybe R-star never even existed?Ruffer chimes in

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ft.comHow governments spend moneyCharting the outline of civilisation

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as.ft.comHow Michael Woodford made modern macro relevant to central bankersNobel expectations

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as.ft.comGoldman goes long stocks — and bonds**Not all bonds

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ft.comAlphaville’s Nobel Prize for Economics live blogLive coverage of exciting economicsy stuff

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The collapse of Australian data-centre firm Firmus Grid’s $5.5 billion IPO brought back acute memories. I wrote in FT Alphaville why pulling an IPO is literally a sickening experience, why it usually happens, and what lessons to learn from these kinds of debacles. www.ft.com/content/97a2...