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...They found that the standout stocks today are at much cheaper valuations than the stars of the 90s were, and while the valuations of the Magnificent 7 et al do look a lot like the “Nifties,” they tend to...
...Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals....
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...The riskiest, most beat-up members of the group (KeyCorp, Comerica, Zions, Western Alliance et al) rose the most....
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...Everyone expects Jay Powell et al to say “no rate increase today, but maybe in a month”....
...Shares in other banks considered to have some degree of asset-liability mismatch (Western Alliance, Zions et al) only saw their shares wobble a little bit yesterday....
...While we have a breather, some thoughts on where markets, companies and consumers stand. Write to us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...To put it more simply: Jiang et al argue there are $2.2tn in mark-to-market losses out there, and there is only $2.2tn in equity in the US banking system....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...But even in the face of this poignant example, the Chan et al/Verdad view is very hard for a person like me to accept....
...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...A true crisis could develop if Binance et al have significant hidden exposure to declining prices, perhaps through DeFi investments....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Surely Zuck et al can make money — serious money — out of messaging software with two billion users. I disagree on the Metaverse, though. It is not “free”....
...Small caps tend to be more volatile than blue-chip stocks both on the way up and down — and could be big medium-term winners if Kolanovic et al are right....
...The Federal Reserve, it appears, is going to tighten with total predictability and imperceptible gentleness; inflation will be transient; Evergrande et al will not sink the Chinese economy; lions will lie...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...Zion Armstrong, a New Zealander, has been president of Adidas North America since 2018....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
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