Sid Verma
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Global markets editor @markets. Formerly @euromoney @FT. Opinions are my own. I'm not David Baddiel. [email protected]
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Joined January 2011
A shock 50 bp interest-rate cut that sparks a 'what-does-the-Fed-know' market crash, tightening financial conditions, forcing a 25 basis-point hike
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What’s the point of an American who isn’t conscientious or extroverted, when you already have English people?
Like everything @jburnmurdoch makes, this chart is amazing. The sharp decline in conscientiousness and rise in neuroticism among young people is astonishing. But also of note: literally every age group has gotten less extroverted in the age of the smartphone
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Not much of a reaction to that jobs report in private-asset valuations right now
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Incredible resilience in US stock futures to all the tariff threats. The great desensitisation of Wall Street continues
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AI can't actually do logic or reason, and yet it's still better at your job than you
BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)
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One day, OnlyFans and Microstrategy will get into the S&P 500, owning the pension libs and reviving ESG and custom indexing
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Today Trump appeared to announce that he’s not seeking formal trade deals after all, in the biggest head-scratcher yet, and it’s elicited comically little commentary because no one knows anything
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I hate how stock markets have actually acted rationally since April. Front-running both the disruption of the modern trading order and now the apparent rollback. That might turn out to be wrong, but it's rational
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Odd Lots makes it to @vulture’s top podcasts of 2025! https://t.co/CKK2SDAbl7
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If you really want to absorb something, immerse yourself in the wonkiest podcasts imaginable.
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Started using ChatGPT to make ever-niche on-the-fly Spotify playlists and now I can't stop
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S&P 500 now down just 3.3% since just before Liberation Day. Turns out the biggest disruption to the trading order in modern history was priced in.
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Stocks now less than 11% off all-time highs -- highs that sparked fear and loathing about a tech-like bubble
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Must have been a lot of presidential promises to not fire the head of the Fed
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In America during tax season, every individual uses a number to identity themselves- a number that holds the key to their financial, governmental, legal identity. Expect there is no way to verify it easily - it’s not biometric. And if someone steals it you are screwed. It’s wild
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