Wall Street’s new trading titans

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped that “there can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.” This show sets out to prove the opposite. Each week, FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigg ...  Show more

For our final episode: Education start-up Byju’s quickly became the pride of India during the Covid-19 pandemic. But almost as fast as the company rose, it collapsed. The fallout has already resulted in millions of dollars’ worth of US court sanctions and allegations of witness t ...  Show more

In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, co-hosts Gunjan Banerji and Telis Demos dig into the latest big bank earnings and what they signal about the health of the U.S. consumer. Next, they explore the disconnect between potential economic warning signs and the market’s ...  Show more

What if one phone call told you the market was on fire? On Trader Talk, Kenny Polcari relives Black Monday with First Boston trader John Parasco, the 1987 crash that erased half a trillion dollars in hours. Hear how specialists begged for firm capital, hedge funds dumped portfoli ...  Show more

On Wall Street, fortunes are often won and lost with the tiniest advantages. And for the past few years, one trading firm has stood out from the rest for both huge profits and careful secrecy — Jane Street Group.But last year, one of Jane Street’s biggest and most lucrative tradi ...  Show more

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber began a new week with a look at tech stocks under pressure, after Citi downgraded Facebook and Google parent Alphabet to neutral. But that news didn't stop the Dow from hitting a new all-time intraday high -- as money rotates out of te ...  Show more