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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Tape Reader: Alphabet's massive $4.3 billion nuclear pact with Constellation Energy is accelerating the off-grid infrastructure theme across the broader utilities sector this morning. Els…
Today on The Tape Reader: A shocking first-round presidential election result in Brazil has triggered an immediate cross-border repricing of sovereign and corporate assets. Back in the US, sweeping st…
Today on The Tape Reader: The $22.6 billion Schneider-PTC buyout is anchoring digital twin valuations this morning. Alongside a Street-high Microsoft upgrade and escalating energy risk premiums follow…
Today on The Tape Reader: A disastrous September jobs report has functionally erased the odds of an October Fed rate hike, yet the bond market is responding with a relentless bear-steepening of the yi…
Today on The Tape Reader: Quarter-end option expiration has fundamentally reshaped the S&P 500's volatility profile heading into Friday's nonfarm payrolls report. By clearing out major near-market cal…
Today on The Tape Reader: The escalating bond market duration risk we've been tracking continues to dictate cross-asset flow, as 10-year Treasury yields punch through 5.30%. While Micron's massive fis…
Today on The Tape Reader: Mega-contracts are taking the wheel this morning. Boeing's $20 billion F/A-XX fighter win and Corning's $3 billion AT&T fiber pact are drawing massive institutional flow, com…
Today on The Tape Reader: Bond market duration risk is dominating cross-asset flows this morning as the 10-year Treasury yield breaches a 19-year high of 5.24%. With broad equity indices struggling ag…
Today on The Tape Reader: Despite 10-year Treasury yields pushing past 5.17%, the S&P 500 remains pinned near all-time highs. But a historic divergence is playing out under the surface. Individual sto…
Today on The Tape Reader: As the S&P 500 pins itself against the 770 options wall we've been tracking, broader market breadth continues to fracture underneath. Institutional capital is violently discr…