What do bond markets know about the election?

What do bond markets know about the election?

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The Buy America trade

US companies are crushing it this year and it’s not just Big Tech. More than 80 per cent of the S&P 500 companies that have reported first-quarter earnings have beaten expectations. Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong discuss the buoyant earnings and how the Middle East conflict could ...  Show more

Are AI stocks the new railroad bonds?

Transformative technologies create speculative frenzies. Robin Wigglesworth, host of the new FT podcast The Story of Money, joins Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong to talk about what financial history can teach us about today’s AI-driven stock market. Also, we go short GameStop’s at ...  Show more

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