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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 3h
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Bond investors 💔 OATs
Sacré bleu
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 7h
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‘Big names in AI like Kyndryl’
Love me tendril
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 10h
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Self-fulfilling bank runs just aren’t really a thing
Or, at least, that’s what the data seems to suggest
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 29/09/2026
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Who is driving the massive surge in repo borrowing?
You can probably guess this one
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 29/09/2026
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Rolex was for crypto, Ferrari is for AI
Cars: the new coins
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 28/09/2026
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David Zervos, Scott Bessent’s new adviser, has opinions
Not a TACO fan
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 28/09/2026
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What is the AI capex breakeven rate?
Heroic ROIC
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 28/09/2026
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And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .
Cap’s locked
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 28/09/2026
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The Bank of England’s balance sheet has already stopped shrinking
So is it QE on the QT?
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 25/09/2026
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OK, so where are all these data centres?
A construction shortfall so big you can’t see it from space
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 25/09/2026
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‘Ponzi-like schemes’
Also: space rockets, Chinese cars, tax avoidance, reply-all disaster strategies, and betting against the house
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 25/09/2026
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SpaceX pivots away from space
Starbase, we have a problem
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 24/09/2026
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Oracle feels the force
Majeure problem?
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Oops! You added the wrong email attachment and leaked the bank’s deal list. What happens next?
A six-point plan for putting toothpaste back in the tube
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 24/09/2026
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Are Big Tech bonds crowding out the US Treasury?
Probably not
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 24/09/2026
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Oops! You added the wrong email attachment and leaked the bank’s deal list. What happens next?
A six-point plan for putting toothpaste back in the tube
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 24/09/2026
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Are Big Tech bonds crowding out the US Treasury?
Probably not
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 23/09/2026
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Can Warsh tighten financial conditions without engineering a stock market fall?
Change the messenger
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 23/09/2026
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The argument for Kalshi taking bets on its own legality
Predictor, predict thyself
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 23/09/2026
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Confessions of an accidental bonus basher
Why bonus caps do kinda make sense (ish) though
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 22/09/2026
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Pick a stock, just not any stock
Fewer ziggers, more zaggers
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 22/09/2026
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The USS lesson plan
Why doesn’t the UK’s largest pension fund go all-in on stocks? Or maybe bonds?
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 21/09/2026
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US data centres ‘are short six NYCs of electricity’
With great power comes great implausibility
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 21/09/2026
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Octopus still won’t give investors their money back
Just another few weeks . . .  okay?
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 19/09/2026
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Startup Nscale’s CEO pay nearly matched the FTSE 100 record, because of course it did
Power? Low. Pay? Very high
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 18/09/2026
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Feets, Don't Fail Me Now - Wikipedia
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 18/09/2026
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Frites don’t fail me now
Also: hyperscalers, circular financing, AI slop, pervert glasses and justifiable murder
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 18/09/2026
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‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’
🤩🤩🤩
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 18/09/2026
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Britons say they’re taking less annual leave. The ONS doesn’t believe them
Incoherent methods —> “coherent series”
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 18/09/2026
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Joining the dots between big AI
In the loop?
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17/09/2026
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Bank of England follows FTAV advice
Although maybe correlation ≠ causation
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17/09/2026
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Sun, stats and suspicious productivity
UK workers are better and more offline than previously thought
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17/09/2026
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Chattering central bankers are good, actually
Some data for Warsh’s task force
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17/09/2026
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Either Meta Glasses are selling extremely well or this Citi survey might have some issues
Alternate virtual realities
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16/09/2026
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The Extended Farageverse is coming together
Stacking sats 🤜 🤛 selling gold
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16/09/2026
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This is good for AI!!!! Aaargh!!!!
A brief survey of sell-side scribbling at the end of the world
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16/09/2026
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Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors
What to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16/09/2026
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The BoE’s three balance sheet problem
Issues with the Issue Department
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 15/09/2026
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BPRE’s extremely large, very huge, getting-bigger NAV discount
Private marks v public markets
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 15/09/2026
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It’s crunch time for BoneSupport, one of Europe’s most shorted stocks
Casing the joint
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 14/09/2026
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How much should lenders charge hyperscalers?
Pricing equity punters’ collective histrionics in a credit context
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 11/09/2026
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Nothing is certain except death and robotaxis
Also: moonshots, Michelin stars, fly brains, fake cigarettes, and revolting Scots
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 11/09/2026
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The day Warren Buffett saved Salomon Brothers
‘Our name was rat poison’
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 11/09/2026
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Desperately seeking UK data centre data
[SIC]
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 11/09/2026
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How big is the open-model threat to AI hyperscalers?
Games without frontiers
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 10/09/2026
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Is now really the time to worry about a new China shock?
Be careful what you wish for
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 10/09/2026
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FT Alphaville’s Art of the Chart show returns 15 October. Tickets are £5, get them here
Delightful dataviz and drinks in London’s oldest parish church 👇
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 09/09/2026
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The clock is ticking on Senegal’s ‘total return swaps’
Not such a FAB way to manage sovereign debt
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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The complicated implications of the spectacular ‘Apollo premium’
FAFOing in creditland
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 07/09/2026
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Could the DMO take the BoE’s long gilts off their hands?
And should they?
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