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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 3h

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

FT www.ft.com/content/678f...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 5h

🇪🇺 Pressure mounts on Belgium to unlock Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, reports @henryjfoy.ft.com

Brussels holds €190bn via Euroclear, but PM Bart De Wever wants other EU countries to share the legal and financial risk of turning €140bn into a "reparations loan"

FT www.ft.com/content/6c2d...

EU pressure builds on Belgium to allow use of Russia’s frozen assets

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever insists other capitals should cover financial and legal risks of €140bn loan

www.ft.com

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 6h

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Trump administration issues new "maximalist" demands for EU trade deal, reports @albertonardelli.bsky.social

"EU officials view the requests as maximalist and the concessions as significant... "

Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 13h

🔶 Gold price tops $4,000 for first time 🔶

The precious metal has soared more than 50% this year, driven by central banks buying bullion to diversify away from the dollar, as well as by investors who see gold as a hedge against inflation and widespread uncertainty

FT www.ft.com/content/ed7f...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 2d

Always thought this was a peculiar sponsorship deal (to put it mildly). Kagame has been president for around 25 years

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇸 AMD soars on OpenAI deal

Chipmaker AMD surged after signing a deal with OpenAI for infrastructure that could generate billions of dollars in new revenue

Deal comes just a fortnight after AMD’s rival, Nvidia, announced plans to invest $100bn in OpenAI

FT www.ft.com/content/bfaf...

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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 2d

Comes after stellar run this year (cf chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social) and as people start to worry that inflating-away-our-massive-debts is the gameplan.

ETF flows have jumped and bankers say they are receiving a surge in calls from people wanting to take an allocation
www.ft.com/content/54dc...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 4d

Bargain Chris

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 5d

The AI capex endgame is approaching - the always excellent @ianrharnett.bsky.social here on the AI bubble and how it is likely to burst. This chart from @raydouglas.bsky.social in the column underlines the risks www.ft.com/content/c7b9...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 5d

🇺🇸 Trust in US media hits historic lows, across the political spectrum

◉ Just 8% of Republicans say they trust the media

◉ Only 27% of Independents agree

◉ Even among Democrats, trust has slipped to a narrow majority (51%)

#MediaTrust #Gallup #USPolitics

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 6d

🇺🇸 US private sector sheds 32,000 jobs, according to ADP, confounding expectations for a gain of 50,000

It’s the sharpest drop since March 2023

With Friday’s nonfarm payrolls postponed, this is the clearest signal we’ve got on the state of the US labour market

FT www.ft.com/content/c86e...

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 8d

Not sure many people would have expected this amid trade wars etc - emerging markets are having one of their strongest years since 2010. Column here from Oliver Harvey of Deutsche Bank. Graph by @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/359c...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 10d

I presume Liverpool have scored?

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 16d

It's clear a significant amount of effort, including heavy editing, went into crafting this post with the singular goal of pushing the idea that freedoms in the UK are under attack. Whoever did this has no conscience

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 16d

Misleading X video post: 6 million views
Fact-checked rebuttal from West Midlands Police: 574,000 views

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 17d

Dollar (blue), sterling (gray) and euro (red)

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 17d

Here's the answer @proptermalone.bsky.social

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17d

Opinion: In the Trump 2.0 era in financial markets, the dollar is taking the strain. The stock rally is masking deep anxiety from investors about the path forward for the world’s biggest economy. on.ft.com/4pubDza

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 18d

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 18d

The dollar is taking the hit from worries over the US - column here from @katie0martin.ft.com. The stock rally is masking deep anxiety from investors about the path forward for the world’s biggest economy. Great chart from @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ac9e...

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 20d

Wow. You must have a resting heartbeat of 39 or something. Super fit

Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 20d

Is there a lido near you? Brockwell?

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 20d

What is it with Liverpool always scoring in extra time ⚽️

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 21d

🇺🇸 Bessent argued that allegations of mortgage fraud against Cook warranted scrutiny and suggested she should resign if they prove true: September 2025

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that Pres...

www.bloomberg.com

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 23d

Ha! Speaking as someone who used to closely cover quarterly earnings daily, I suspect most companies that withheld important quarterly data would get punished by investors. (Meme stocks are, of course, exempt from that logic)

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