The archive
12 pieces of plain-language reporting on how money actually works.
September's payrolls badly missed forecasts and October rate-hike odds collapsed. Yet the 10-year Treasury yield closed higher near 5.28%. Here's what the bond market is really worried about.
3 min read
Stocks closed the week higher as soft hiring data cut the odds of an October Fed hike. Chipmakers led, the VIX sank and Tesla surged — but the S&P 500 and Dow still logged weekly losses.
2 min read
The weak jobs report sent bitcoin briefly above $87,000 before it slid back to about $84,600, liquidating hundreds of millions in leveraged longs. Meanwhile Citi raised its 12-month target to $113,000.
3 min read
Stocks fell on the first trading day of September as fresh US strikes on Iran pushed crude higher and a global bond rout drove yields to multi-year highs. Here's the chain of cause and effect — decoded.
6 min read
The biggest IPO in history is coming, and Wall Street's most famous activist investor says he wants to let ordinary people in early. Here's what's actually on the table — and what isn't.
9 min read
Headlines call it panic. On a trading desk it is mostly arithmetic: discount rates move, and every future dollar gets repriced at once.
2 min read
One product, one decision, and most of the work done for you. Here is what you are actually buying — and what you are quietly paying for it.
2 min read
For the first decade of building wealth, the market is a rounding error. What you put in does almost all of the work.
1 min read
A handful of companies are spending like utilities and being valued like software. If you own the market, you own that bet.
2 min read
It is one line on one chart, and it tells you what the bond market expects the next few years to feel like.
1 min read
Three months or six? The honest answer depends on how your income fails, not on a round number someone printed in a book.
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Before the first trade, it helps to know who is holding your money, who is holding your shares, and what happens if either one fails.
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