Ray Douglas

🇧🇷 Bolsonaro launches bid to annul election loss "Bolsonaro accused the Supreme Court of changing the rules mid-game when it mandated a last-minute extension of voting hours ... [painting] the decision as an act of political meddling" 🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #Brazil #BrazilElections

🇧🇷 Well, this is surprising Lula has trailed Flávio Bolsonaro in the most recent polls (Perhaps the bros on Polymarket know something we don’’t) #Brazil #BrazilElections

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Russia-Ukraine war is over... 🥳

🚀 📺 What the...? “I predict... you’ll see a global output deal for Skydance with SpaceX, and an investment by SpaceX into Skydance, to delever Skydance and take a little bit of the burden off David Ellison’s shoulders,” said media mogul John Malone HR www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

🇬🇧 Props to British supermarket Tesco for gatecrashing Elon Musk's launch of Tesla's new Roadster Looking forward to my groceries being flown to my door in 2028... or delayed indefinitely

📺 Make this make sense! The Diplomat has a 100% critics' score. I'm clearly in the minority, but it's daft: rapid-fire dialogue that plays like a poor man's Sorkin What's the appeal, Bluesky? What am I missing?

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelenskyy said the Starlink restrictions "were a 'planned operation . . . to restrict us, cut us off and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people'" President says restrictions are hampering efforts to intercept Russian attacks FT www.ft.com/content/e267...

Oops, I cut the title off. It wasn’t supposed to be a guess the chart quiz.

"The dress rehearsal for an AI reckoning" (FT) "Surveys of professional investors now place AI exuberance and the hyperscaler debt binge at the top of worry lists" NASDAQ down ~5% in Oct 1-16 In the same period: $INTU +15.0% $MSFT +3.2% $GOOG +0.6% www.ft.com/content/3f98...

🇺🇸 Is that even a Scaramucci? (11 days)

"Buying French banks is for the brave ... I don’t think there will be many heroes out there." Nasty run of performance for French stocks as bond-banks wobble adds to other headwinds. By @emilydherbert.bsky.social + me with charts from @raydouglas.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/eaaf169b-c...

🇺🇸🇬🇧 BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition as part of his $10bn lawsuit Trump’s lawyers told the BBC’s counsel that the president “is no longer available for his deposition on October 16 due to other matters of national importance” Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

📱 Back in January, Apple TV 4K started at £149 The updated device launched today starts at, er... £299. Double Apple www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-...

👔 Just wanted to point out that this is among the most popular articles on the FT today... "Surely this is the sartorial evolution of a waistcoat?" pondered one reader Link www.ft.com/content/f01b...

🇺🇸 Totally normal. Nothing to see here... "Administration officials have said the agency is investigating Omar’s immigration history" Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What is the real price of oil anymore? Amrita Sen oped here on just how much the gap between the futures prices that is mostly quoted as "the oil price" has blown out from the price being paid for physical crude. Chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/3f045ba9-3...

⚽ Informative (and entertaining) explainer of how Manchester City FC reportedly breached Premier League rules, by TikTok's SportsBall #ManchesterCity #ManCity #Football #PremierLeague

⚽ The Premier League is clearly not fit to police its own financial rules The City case exists only because hacker Rui Pinto leaked documents to Der Spiegel in 2018 Chelsea's record £10.75mn fine? Self-reported by the club's new owners FT www.ft.com/content/2f82...

‘The pace at which US yields ripped above 5 per cent was unnatural and comparable in recent years only with the short but brutal market shock from Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs in April last year. Market insiders say this was a sign of distress.’ www.ft.com/content/4acb...

Sidenote: Is Susan Collins' dress blue and black or white and gold?

This chart on Europe from the Financial Times is a general reminder that, in exhibiting impressive resilience to the energy shock, the global economy has run down its physical inventory. #economy #oil #energy #markets @financialtimes.com

🇺🇸 Apple promised to protect your data. Anthropic's Dario Amodei is still just asking for an industry "pause" My colleague @robarmstrong.bsky.social is spot on in his column about trust in AI and Apple FT www.ft.com/content/f532...

🇪🇺 🇨🇦 Perhaps Britain could follow Canada in becoming an "Associate Member" of the EU... #Brexit WSJ www.wsj.com/world/europe...

🇺🇸 Sixteen of America's 20 biggest political donors are backing Republicans this midterm cycle, an FT analysis finds -- even as the GOP trails in the polls The outlier: George Soros, still the top Democratic money man FT www.ft.com/content/2285...

🇺🇸 Bessent says he’s supportive of $5,000 cheques for Americans Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🇺🇸 Trump calls on Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries "US president says the attacks and not his war in Iran are responsible for diesel hitting record highs" FT www.ft.com/content/e3ba...

🌮 First signs of a Tacco coming? Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🇺🇸 Trump doubling down on $5,000 voting payout…

“Bonds are facing a double whammy — oil prices are creeping higher, while US buybacks and growing credibility risks are pushing term premia higher" www.ft.com/content/49e8... 😬 chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social

🇺🇸 If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you FT as.ft.com/r/04cfbae2-9...

🇺🇸 Er, why? Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP meme coin gives founders -- including him -- 30% of the 1bn tokens Another 20% airdrops to wallets that lost money on Trump's $TRUMP coin, plus Biden's Substack subscribers and a mailing list run by his friend Andrew Callaghan WSJ www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Chart of the day from @raydouglas.bsky.social for a @katie0martin.ft.com column on the gloves coming off on markets towards the US as.ft.com/r/d4ff6788-6...

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Should the UK make itself more reliant on trade with the US? It's not working well for Canada Trump's top trade negotiator says the UK isn't using the freedom Brexit gave it -- it's choosing "Brussels over America" instead #Brexit FT www.ft.com/content/0d2b...

🇬🇧 A company linked to Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly has given Nigel Farage's Reform UK £75,000 That's on top of the £4mn that crypto entrepreneur Ben Delo -- pardoned by Trump last year -- gave the party this quarter FT www.ft.com/content/c8fb...

A big shock from Malta: the jury acquits the man accused of orchestrating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia: as.ft.com/r/977679ea-7...

🇷🇺 🇮🇷 Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles FT exclusive www.ft.com/content/6cf3...

“Everyone is increasing their borrowing at a time when funding costs are going higher. The fiscal situation is not improving anywhere. Until we get a change in those fundamental factors, the long end doesn’t have an anchor.” www.ft.com/content/e6f5...

🪥 For the dentist who has everything... Dyson's first toothbrush went on sale today at £419.99. It has a camera that takes 28 pictures of your teeth a second and can livestream your gums to your phone (Tesco has two brushes for 25p) CameraJet™ www.dyson.co.uk/oral-care/el...

⚽ Heeere we go! (in Romano's accent) Barcelona close to deal for Arsenal's Jesus BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

🍿 "Coyote Vs. Acme", a Warner Bros tax write-off before Ketchup Entertainment acquired the rights, has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95% Makes you wonder whether "Batgirl" and "Scoob! Holiday Haunt", two other unreleased Warner tax write-offs, are any good... SR screenrant.com/coyote-vs-ac...

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid Canada trade war ⬇️ CNBC www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/t...

🇺🇸 Stephen Miran, ex-Fed Board governor, says inflation expectations and term premium are contained, so the rise in Treasury yields is almost entirely down to one thing — investors betting the US economy grows faster 🔥 FT www.ft.com/content/a919...

🇬🇧 It's only a matter of time before heat overtakes cold as Britain's biggest weather killer FT chart shows the gap narrowing, with 2026 on course to be the UK's hottest summer on record @amyborrett.ft.com & @kenzabryan.ft.com London is the worst-hit area for heat deaths www.ft.com/content/5675...

🇺🇸 Apple's new Macs are eye-wateringly expensive -- top-spec Studio will set you back £18,299.00. (And it's the same price in dollars $18,299 for reasons I can't fathom) One suspects that the AI-driven demand for chip shortage is behind all this...

“It’s pissing me off that I like him”, is the top-rated comment on Burnham’s TikTok page

🇨🇦 🇪🇺 Canada and Carney keenly wants what the UK discarded #Brexit

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 "WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US," Trump posted, doubling down on his spat with PM Carney -- threatening to hike tariffs on Canadian cars and auto parts to 50% from January 1 Canada, by the way, is the US's third-largest source of imports FT www.ft.com/content/5297...

🇺🇸 And you wonder why Democrats are unpopular despite Trump tanking in the polls… Jeffries and Kushner meet privately as midterm attacks fly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...