Sebastian Boyd

Sebastian Boyd

@sebboyd.bsky.social

Markets Live strategist at Bloomberg News. Politics and history nerd. Book lover. Opinions are my own (or plagiarized from the wise and witty). Based in Chile. Part-time student at U de Chile.

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NEW/SCOOP: After a yearlong #FOIA battle, I finally obtained Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer form from BOP. But the agency redacted its rationale for moving the convicted sex offender to a minimum-security prison Read it in this special edition of FOIA Files 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

bloomberg.comGhislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer Application ReleasedFOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison...

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An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

bloomberg.comThe US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.

I don't know why this thread showed up in my feed, but I'm delighted it did.

Paul Cooper@paulmmcooper.com

The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever. I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.

If you grew up with, like, 10 VHS tapes that your parents recorded off the TV at Christmas, there is no hard mode.

Nome@nome.bsky.social

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Tensions in the Iran war ratcheted up over the weekend as the US Navy fired upon and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman. It’s the first seizure in the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz bloom.bg/4sNMT5o

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In 2025, US tariffs hit 9.6 percent, the highest in 80 years. Estimating the short-run impacts and assessing whether the tariffs have achieved their stated goals, from Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Amit Khandelwal www.nber.org/papers/w35064

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Replying to @buddyyakov.bsky.social

it's absolutely silly how much random knowledge you can accrue with a Bloomberg terminal and a dash of intellectual curiosity.

They say you become more right-wing as you get older. I certainly find myself getting less and less concerned that the pension triple lock is going to bankrupt the country the closer I get to receiving it.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into a system"

I'm not a military strategist, but surely you'd be more likely to find the uranium if the plans weren't leaked to the Wall Street Journal ahead of time.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

BREAKING via WSJ President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer.  Full Story: on.wsj.com/4m43Y9G

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Replying to @kenveksler.bsky.social

Treasuries will remain offered and rightly so. Having said that the belly and certainly long end are very quickly coming to a point of being over their skis IMO. The next 6mths will be a conflict of 2 narratives - inflation vs growth/recession CB’s aren’t as keen to hike as STIR traders think 4/n

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Replying to @kenveksler.bsky.social

I don’t think equities (using Spooz as my proxy) are going to properly shit the bed. I do think they continue to trade weakly and def to the downside while there is nothing close to an Iranian resolution in sight. In short a grind rather than a cliff fall. 2/n

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NI TRUMPSOCI <GO>

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social

Truth Social has perhaps the worst user experience of any social media website. One of many things I resent in 2026 is having to go there to find out what the President is saying.

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At least 34 people were killed when a Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country's southern Amazon region on Monday, authorities said.

It's like one of those old "choose your adventure" novels being read from beginning to end. It makes no sense. On one page the dragon is dead; on the next page it's alive and has eaten your friend.

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A few weeks ago oil was about $70 a barrel and Iran was mostly selling at an often steep discount to China. The US Treasury will now let them sell at $110 a barrel on the open market for a few weeks at least. I’ve read quite a lot about the history of economic warfare. This is quite new.

I have mixed feelings about this story. Detecting 22 kilos of raw, un-refrigerated meat seems like a pretty low bar. On the other hand, she's sitting right there next to 22 kilos of raw meat and hasn't stolen any of it. (Plus, she's a labrador and all labradors are awesome.)

ctvnews.caDetection dog at Toronto Pearson Airport helps border services seize 22.5 kilos of raw meat from passenger from EgyptA savvy detector dog at Toronto Pearson Airport sniffed out more than 22 kilograms of raw meat from the luggage of a traveller hailing from Egypt earlier this month, says Canada Border Service Agency ...

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Don’t know about about anyone else, but I’m really struggling with risk allocations at the moment.

"Could" is doing a lot of work here.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

BLACKROCK’S LARRY FINK SAID THE WAR WITH IRAN COULD LEAD TO LOWER GLOBAL ENERGY PRICES IN THE LONG TERM IF THE CONFLICT RESULTS IN IRAN’S ENERGY MARKETS OPENING MORE TO THE WORLD. - WSJ

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Kemi Badenoch's spokesman denies she is ashamed of British animals, after the Conservative party call the Bank of England's decision to put British wildlife on our banknotes "deeply depressing"

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Sums it up: “The timing here is difficult to ignore. Tesla is in the middle of trying to prove that its Robotaxi business is real and scalable, not just a stock price narrative…”. $TSLA $TSLAQ Some things are deeply rotten at Tesla. Too many senior departures lately... electrek.co/2026/03/09/t...

electrek.coTesla loses software director who built its OTA and Robotaxi infrastructureThomas Dmytryk, the Tesla director who built the automaker's OTA update system and Robotaxi ride-hailing infrastructure, has left after 11 years amid a growing executive exodus.