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    Alexandra Scaggs

    Alphaville reporter

    Alexandra Scaggs is a reporter for FT Alphaville, covering markets, finance and economics. She rejoins the blog after a stint covering personal finance and bond markets for Barron's. Before she first joined Alphaville in 2016, she covered interest rates for Bloomberg and US equity markets for the Wall Street Journal.

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    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Global Economy
      Is it good when Wall Street compares today to 2007?

      Maybe it’s capitulation, maybe it’s time for tin hats

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Google’s antitrust secrecy; food; productivity; and another softball SBF profile

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Altman; Musk; Swift; the BoE; the Pope; lab meat; vaporwave; etc

    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      WGA strike; “rewards”; Keir Starmer; inheritance tax; Russian tropics; etc

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      White collar crime
      It’s big regulation szn

      Fall is in the air, financial criminals beware

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Unhedged podcast21 min listen
      Well, actually: Our ‘Dumb Money’ movie review

      The new movie ‘Dumb Money’ tackles some complicated finance. Does it get it all right?

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      US interest rates
      Fed officials predict soft landing with hard policy

      Higher rates AND growth, for longer

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Interest-rate hawks in control

      ...of CTAs’ positions, that is

    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      United Auto Workers
      Three US growth ‘potholes’

      But don’t blame the auto workers

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Hedge funds
      PFOF and its discontents

      Ugh fine, we’ll debunk the GameStop conspiracy theory

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Corporate bonds
      Corporate debt gets a shorter fuse

      At the sector level, at least, and relative to historical medians. (The index seems fine)

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      FTX Trading Ltd
      FTX update, Alameda P&L edition

      It’s a doozy

    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      The Treasury market is the original public-private partnership

      On “shadow dealers” and the basis trade

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Burning tyres; BRICS; a pet steer called Howdy Doody; Nebraska volleyball; a strange PR flex; “dog autism”; etc

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Pat Finucane; Jeffrey Epstein; three spicy econ papers; NYC subway; Taliban trucks; etc

    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Hospital raid; rearmament; global capital; Katrina’s floodlines; drug price negotiations; James Joyce; literal brainworm; etc

    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Bitcoin
      The SEC failed to prove that dog wags tail, court rules

      Futures and cash markets . . .  what’s the difference, really?

    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Idalia; Hollywood; book blurbs; the worst type of duel; a disproven conjecture; the childhood play deficit

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Sports; sanctions; stocks; subsidies; Bohemian Grove; etc

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Leveraged loans
      Loans are still not securities, court says

      Fax your friends! Fax your spouses! It’s time to celebrate.

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Property sector
      On China’s property mess and its banks’ ‘impossible trinity’

      Goldman Sachs says Chinese developers need to liquidate $2tn of property inventory

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Credit default swaps
      Well I would ask 500 times

      “And I would ask 500 more / just to be the man who prompts a default *on* Casino’s CDS”

    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Corporate bonds
      (3x3)rd time’s the charm?

      Ninth question leads to another look at Casino’s CDS

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      High yield bonds
      Rising rates and “capital deprivation”

      One more thing: Price of the brick (of cash) going up

    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA
      What does the CDS market have in common with a toddler?

      They don’t want to take no for an answer. Especially in supermarkets

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