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Robin Wigglesworth
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Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 1d
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BlackRock’s big fat bitcoin haul
[FREE TO READ] Stacking sats like a champ
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 13h
The weekend is soon here! And that means fun with charts. on.ft.com/3IE86xR
FTAV’s Friday charts quiz
Chart for charts’ sake
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17h
Actually a very good question. Because of annoying fiddly technical reasons, some people still hit the paywall when they try to read Alphaville, not the reg wall, so some articles we make completely free so that there is no registration or paywall whatsoever.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17h
I mean, if you don't genuinely lol at this then I'm afraid we can't be friends.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17h
More amazeballs reporting from @bondhack.ft.com and @ericgplatt.ft.com
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17h
A dig into First Brands' invoice financing and who's left holding the bag.

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First Brands Group: dude, where’s my cash?
[FREE TO READ] Cleveland, we have a problem
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 21h
Natgas, prepare to be Figgied.

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Jane Street is getting physical
In commodities at least
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 1d
DB pensions chat with the head of backstops

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FTAV Q&A: Michelle Ostermann
[FREE TO READ] The UK Pension Protection Fund’s chief talks Canada envy, risk, reform, and public sector consolidation
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Jane Street is getting physical (in commodities) on.ft.com/431m0Rq
a woman says let 's get physical in a pixelated video
ALT: a woman says let 's get physical in a pixelated video
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d
Talk is cheap. Gold, not so much.

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So you want to talk about gold
[FREE TO READ] Marking the record high for so-called analogue bitcoin
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d
A neat chart on headline vs underlying US trade tariffs

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US tariffs are still *checks notes* around 10 per cent
Lots of mouth, varying amounts of trousers
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Whoa Bill Bailey won a Nobel prize.
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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d
The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for his postmodern, dystopian novels, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature: on.ft.com/43dn191
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
BlackRock's bitcoin ETF now manages nearly $100bn, making the asset manager the single largest known owner of bitcoin. The ETF now throws off nearly $250mn a year in fees for BlackRock. www.ft.com/content/0cc9...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d
Up at Alphaville, I look at the constant expansion of the regulatory perimeter and present a new "notebook trilemma" www.ft.com/content/7c3a...
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 3d
Prop Will Eat Itself

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Are we approaching peak prop trading?
[FREE TO READ] Maybe! Maybe not!
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d
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Aston Martin will keep paying you to take their cars away
[FREE TO READ] The 112-year-old marque that burns cash like an AI startup
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d
Not if it's for this banger. www.ft.com/content/d811...
ARK Invest’s ‘seemingly outlandish’ economic forecasts
AI caramba
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d
Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 Do macro releases really matter to stock punters?

Turns out yes, or at least some of them.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d
Fire up your nerdiest group chat — the FT Alphaville Pub Quiz returns to London later this month. on.ft.com/47j6xxF
The FT Alphaville Pub Quiz returns to London on October 23. Here’s how to get tickets
Strictly quizness
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d
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IMF vs SRT: Let’s get systemic
[FREE TO READ] Once more unto the funky securitisation breach
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d
Seriously impressive. www.ft.com/content/55a5...
And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .
Shirt Up and Dance
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d
OpenAI — the human centipede of AI. on.ft.com/3VR0B9G
OpenAI targets 10% AMD stake via multibillion-dollar chip deal
Latest circular transaction aims to make ChatGPT maker central to the effort to build a huge AI infrastructure
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 7d
Each weekday, FT Alphaville picks a dozen or so articles from elsewhere.

Here's today: on.ft.com/4nsHAXf
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Wednesday: on.ft.com/4pTL6vc
Tuesday: on.ft.com/4o1psDx
Monday: on.ft.com/46NzNft

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 7d
"With the advent of private credit, institutions are putting money into this magical machine that gives you equity rates of return for senior debt exposure, which again should be the first red flag. We rarely get to see how the sausage is made."

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FTAV Q&A: Jim Chanos
[FREE TO READ] Wall Street’s most famous short seller on the First Brands fiasco, Enron and the “magical machine” in private credit markets
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