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Strategic Petroleum Reserve USA
Reimagining the SPR

Adapting the Federal Reserve’s playbook for commodity risk

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Equity valuation
Giant shorts around the globe

A mostly inconsequential look at what’s getting shorted where

Space industry
Are investors prepared for *checks notes* nuclear war in space?

Space boom, meet actual boom

Data visualisation
FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

One more chartache

Capital markets
CRE is the key to regional banks’ bond spreads

It’s apparently pretty easy to see

Bitcoin
The SEC approved Bitcoin ETFs. The European Central Bank is not happy

Reguulaaattoooooorrrssss! Mount up.

Global inflation
Will a second inflation wave turn the AI boom into a winter of discontent?

That 70s S***show

UK trade
If a services export collapses in the woods, and nobody hears it for ages, does it make a discourse?

Other stands for discomfort

FTAV’s further reading

Solar flares; seasonality; turbines; Instagram; Don’t Die; “former world’s oldest dog”; etc

OpenAI
“Unexpected responses from ChatGPT”

Gawking at a fender bender on the Information Superhighway

Hedge funds
Want an S&P tracker except worse? Hedge funds have you covered

Concentration consternation

High yield bonds
Is it PIK-up time for cash-strapped companies?

Having failed to make it, more firms may try to fake it

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