Charting Room

An earnings/valuation double bubble of Pleistocene proportions

Turning a data-fuelled quantitative international ranking project into a thing about London

Contango for two

Fireworks; dictators; Andy Burnham; weddings; the Daily Mail; semi-liquid private credit funds; forums; eggs; and government

The garbage rally roils quantitative investment strategies

It’s more interesting than you might think

Mervyn King; randomised trials; AI; ticks; LLMs; t’interwebs; the dollar; and Igor Tulchinsky

Equity wipeout, debt distressed . . .  trebles all round?

What is the appropriate amount of arousal for an earnings call?

Labour share; policy; continents; sports betting; personhood; the ‘Surrey Caliphate’; and bond markets

Unexpectedly, according to one broker, the answer is not nothing

Universities challenged

European activists; US demographics; British plumbing; Apple icons; slop game guides; LinkedIn; black cars; and picky bits

Many stats; no learnings

It’s going to be a stretch (sorry)

Morgan Stanley’s analysts are worried about quarter-end money tightness

Charteaubriand

Politics could be a bigger constraint than power and compute

Vermeer; Western Asset; Lincoln v cotton; digital services taxes; perps; Andy Burnham; and Treasury exposures