Podcasts by What Goes Up

Introducing: Elon, Inc. from 2023-11-14T12:00

At Bloomberg, we’re always talking about the biggest business stories, and no one is bigger than Elon Musk.

In this new chat weekly show, host David Papadopoulos and a panel of guests inc...

Listen Now: GMO's Jeremy Grantham on Merryn Talks Money from 2023-10-06T04:00

Hey 'What Goes Up' listeners, here's another Bloomberg podcast you might enjoy: Merryn Talks Money. It's hosted by senior columnist Merryn Somerset Webb and every week aims to explain how market...

Why China’s Real Estate Crisis Is Different from 2023-09-29T08:00

The troubles facing highly indebted property developers in China have dominated conversations about the Asian nation’s economy and markets this year. Yet according to Rayliant Global Advisors’ J...

Is the Fed Done Raising Rates? Ellen Zentner Thinks So from 2023-09-22T08:00

When it comes to the US Federal Reserve’s campaign to crush inflation by raising interest rates, Morgan Stanley Chief US Economist Ellen Zentner says this: “I have a strong view that they’re don...

Human Trafficking in the Crypto Rabbit Hole from 2023-09-15T08:00

A few years ago, an editor asked Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux to take a look at the cryptocurrency Tether, a so-called stablecoin meant to precisely track the US dollar by backing ...

A Dip Worth Buying? from 2023-09-08T08:00

From artificial intelligence to electric vehicles and travel stocks, some of the previously hot equity-market themes have borne the brunt of the selling during the market’s dip in August and Sep...

How to Avoid Getting Burned by the AI Hype from 2023-09-01T08:00

There’s a lot of excitement around AI-focused stocks right now, but market veteran Art ...

Matt Levine on Why 'Everything Is Securities Fraud' from 2023-08-25T08:00

Matt Levine, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion who writes the Bloomberg newsletter Money Stuff, joined the What Goes Up podcast to discuss some of the hot finance topi...

BlackRock Shakes Up the Bitcoin ETF Race from 2023-08-18T08:00

Crypto fanatics have been pining for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund for a decade now. But as the applications piled up, US regulators repeatedly declined to approve one, citing the risk of fraud...

The `Odd Lots' Crossover Episode from 2023-08-11T08:00

From the renewed and growing power of American organized labor to the case for minting a $1 trillion coin to end debt-ceiling brinkmanship once and for all, Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast...

What You Need to Know About Gold from 2023-08-03T20:58:45

The price of gold tends to do well in times of elevated uncertainty about economies and financial systems—something the world has seen a lot of in the past few years. Yet each time the precious ...

Vanguard's Hard Pass on a `Soft Landing' from 2023-07-28T08:00

A rallying stock market and better-than-expected second-quarter economic growth are just the latest developments pointing Wall Street skeptics to the possibility of a US “soft landing.” That’s w...

When Will Commercial Real Estate Market Hit Bottom? from 2023-07-21T08:00

A slow-motion crisis is unfolding in the global commercial real-estate market, thanks to the double-whammy of higher interest rates and lower demand for office space following the Covid-19 pande...

There's No Magic to Fed's 2% Inflation Target from 2023-07-14T08:00

US Federal Reserve officials have been adamant that they’re looking to get inflation levels back down to 2%. But the path to that goal could bring pain to millions of workers, a possible trade-o...

The World's Food Supply Needs to Change from 2023-07-07T08:00

Global shifts in incomes and populations, geopolitics and the climate crisis are combining to drastically alter the outlook for the world’s food supply. Taimur Hyat, chief operating officer for ...

What If There Was a Recession and No One Noticed? from 2023-06-30T08:00

The disconnect between a roaring stock market and stubborn recession predictions has left many investors scratching their heads. The equity strategists at Bloomberg Intelligence however have an ...

How Covid Rewired Markets and the Economy from 2023-06-23T08:00

While in some places life has mostly gotten back to normal following the Covid-19 pandemic, there are aspects of economies and markets that may have been altered permanently. Jared Gross, the he...

AI's 'Big Bang' Moment from 2023-06-16T08:00

Enthusiasm for artificial intelligence has powered a breakneck rally in US equities this year, far overshadowing the US Federal Reserve’s campaign to raise interest rates. So how should investor...

Seema Shah Makes the Case for a Short-Lived Recession from 2023-06-09T08:00

According to Seema Shah, the chief global strategist for Principal Asset Management, the US economy will enter a recession, likely at the end of this year. Though she says it could be mild and s...

Using AI to Explain Stock Moves from 2023-06-02T08:00

Artificial intelligence is all the rage on Wall Street. Some strategists see AI trends driving further gains for stocks as others point to how big banks are beginning to use it to automate some ...

Betting (on) the Farm from 2023-05-26T08:00

Investing in farmland has historically offered an attractive and stable source of returns, yet it’s not an easy asset class for most investors to access. Carter Malloy founded a platform called ...

With Fed Pause Likely, Here Are Ideas for Your Cash from 2023-05-19T08:00

A lot of investors are sitting on piles of cash. In fact, J.P. Morgan Wealth Management estimates its clients are more overweight with cash now than they’ve been in a decade. 

But attract...

The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is an Opportunity from 2023-05-12T08:00

As the US government debt-ceiling standoff heats up and markets grow more volatile, veteran Loomis Sayles & Co. portfolio manager Listen

The Fed Won't Ride to the Rescue from 2023-05-05T08:00

Brace for a US recession to start next quarter and worsen at the end of the year, and don’t bet on the Federal Reserve to react immediately to prop up growth. That’s according to Sarah House, se...

The Fed's Not Done Breaking Things from 2023-04-28T08:00

While the drama surrounding regional US banks has largely subsided following the failure of three lenders in March, that doesn’t mean the ripple effects of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes ar...

Morgan Stanley Braces for a Soft Landing from 2023-04-21T08:00

Runaway inflation. Surging interest rates. Bank failures. For a while it seemed like all of these issues would combine to trigger a US recession. Not so fast, says Morgan Stanley’s Seth Carpente...

The Case for a 22% Drop in S&P 500 from 2023-04-14T08:00

Troy Gayeski, chief market strategist at FS Investments, says don’t wait until May...

Man Group's Stock Skepticism from 2023-04-07T08:00

It’s not just the prospect of deteriorating fundamentals that has Man Group’s Mark Jones skeptical about stocks these days. It’s also the risk of money flowing into fixed-income investments now ...

A Quant Takes on Microcaps from 2023-03-31T08:00

If there’s one thing that keeps professional investors up at night, it’s being involved in a “crowded trade.” In other words, a position that’s become so popular that there are few investors lef...

Flashbacks to 2008 from 2023-03-24T08:00

When Steve Sosnick recalls 2008 and tries to make parallels to the current turmoil ...

The Huge Significance of Small Banks from 2023-03-17T08:00

Torsten Slok had been firmly in the “no landing” camp of economists. More positive than a “soft landing,” its adherents say the Federal Reserve will tame inflation without triggering a recession...

Jeremy Grantham's Market Meat-Grinder from 2023-03-10T09:00

Jeremy Grantham blames the US Federal Reserve for creating a bubble in asset prices—one he says has a long way to go before it’s fully deflated. As a result, stock prices may not reach bottom un...

A Soft Landing Is Getting Harder from 2023-03-03T09:00

Princeton University’s Alan Blinder is one of the most prominent economists to have expressed optimism that the Federal Reserve can engineer a so-called “soft landing” for the US economy—taming ...

BlackRock on 'Fixing' the 40 in 60/40 from 2023-02-24T09:00

Exchange-traded fund managers have seen massive inflows into fixed-income ETFs in recent months. As the dust settles from the bond market’s worst year on record, ETFs focused on safe and simple ...

Don’t Feel Bullied by the Stock Rally from 2023-02-17T09:00

The stock market may be off to a great start in 2023, but investors should be “mindful about not being bullied” by the rally, says Wealth Enhancement Group’s Nicole Webb.

She warns that i...

How Wall Street Is Using AI to Build ETFs from 2023-02-10T09:00

ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm, spurring all manner of experiments and examination as to what extent the artificial-intelligence model can supplant humans and daily tasks. But it’s also...

(Mis)interpreting the Fed from 2023-02-03T09:00

Morgan Stanley’s Jim Caron joined the What Goes Up podcast to dissect this week’s US Federal Reserve meeting and analyze how markets may have misinterpreted the message being sent by Ch...

AlphaSimplex on Embracing the 'Uncomfortable' from 2023-01-27T09:00

The rare bright spots for investing last year were those strategies that follow trends in markets rather than fundamentals. This successful approach included the AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Str...

Fading the New Year's Bounce from 2023-01-20T09:00

The stock market got off to a roaring start this year with the S&P 500 at one point clocking a year-to-date gain of more than 4%. Truist Wealth Co-Chief Investment Officer Keith Lerner, howe...

Savita Subramanian's Earnings-Season Reality Check from 2023-01-13T09:00

Get ready for some bad earnings-season news. That’s the call from Savita Subramanian, the head of...

Fidelity Sees a Return to Bear-Market Lows from 2023-01-06T09:00

The US Federal Reserve’s commitment to higher interest rates and the potential for a recession in 2023 will combine to damage corporate earnings—damage that likely will cause the stock market to...

SBF's Love of Risk from 2022-12-30T09:00

Before his FTX cryptocurrency empire collapsed, many of Sam Bankman-Fried’s public statements indicated that he made decisions “as though he had no risk aversion,” according to Listen

JPMorgan's Obituary for Globalization from 2022-12-23T09:00

The decades-long trend of globalization has come to an end and the fracturing of geopolitics will have huge implications for capital markets and investing in 2023, according to strategists at JP...

The Calendar Won't Cure the Chaos from 2022-12-16T09:00

Don’t expect volatile equity-market swings to go away when the calendar flips to 2023, says Edward Jones senior investment strategist Mona Mahajan, who advises focusing on defensive and value st...

TINA's Dead and Bonds Are Back from 2022-12-09T09:00

Bonds are back—and they appear to be the preferred asset class as we head into the uncertain economic environment in 2023, according to Listen

5% Inflation for a Decade? from 2022-12-02T09:00

Expectations that inflation will normalize to near 2% in the near term will “end in tears,” according to Vincent Deluard, the director of global macro strategy at brokerage StoneX Financial. He ...

FTX 'Horror Stories' in the Bahamas from 2022-11-23T18:39:29

The implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX empire dealt a harsh blow to the Bahamas’ ambitions to be a hub for the crypto industry, and it’s causing massive pain for locals who treated the now-ban...

Life in Crypto After FTX from 2022-11-18T09:00

The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX cryptocurrency empire was accelerated when the head of a rival exchange announced he was planning to dump holdings of something called FTT—a token created...

FTX Shows Crypto Still the ‘Wild West’ from 2022-11-11T09:00

FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange rattled the financial world this week when a crisis of investor confidence triggered a run, forcing the company to scramble for a buyer or bailout to avoid collapse. ...

Institutions' Slow-Motion Crypto Embrace from 2022-11-04T08:00

Cryptocurrency news this year has been filled with stories about how institutional investors are embracing digital assets. So if more big players are entering the space, why are prices for Bitco...

The Worst Way to Fix Inflation from 2022-10-28T08:00

There are better ways to combat inflation than destroying demand with interest-rate increases, according to Listen

The Fed Is Playing a ‘Dangerous Game’ from 2022-10-21T08:00

The stock market has been getting very volatile as the US Federal Reserve continues its historic effort to squash rising prices. Proclamations from policymakers suggest the central bank won’t le...

Paul Volcker, Market Psychologist from 2022-10-14T08:00

Another hot inflation reading this week underscores the importance of the US Federal Reserve’s campaign to tame decades-high increases in consumer prices, with many market observers evoking the ...

Flash Boys in the Crypto Cloud from 2022-10-07T08:00

Institutional investors are playing a more-influential role in crypto markets as retail traders retreat, and that explains much of the recent range-bound price action, according to Listen

Liz Truss's Ronald Reagan Moment from 2022-09-30T08:00

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered the latest wave of turbulence in global markets after announcing economic plans that include unfunded tax cuts. The move crushed the value of the pound whil...

A Quant's Take on Inflation from 2022-09-23T08:00

Sometimes it feels like you need to be a rocket scientist to trade successfully in modern markets. Well, Listen

A 'Cheat Code' for the Bond Market from 2022-09-16T08:00

George Cipolloni’s son is a video-game aficionado, and the teenager’s language has c...

The Long Runway for Bond Shorts from 2022-09-09T08:00

Selling bonds short—a trade that for decades hadn’t worked consistently—has helped fuel a 37% return so far this year for the managed-futures strategy fund at AlphaSimplex Group. And the trade l...

A Farmer's Take on the Economy from 2022-09-02T08:00

Rising food prices have been one of the big drivers of inflation this year as farmers across America were hit with price spikes for fertilizer and fuel. They’ve also been forced to grapple with ...

Siegel on Inflation, the Fed and Meme Stocks from 2022-08-26T08:00

Jeremy Siegel, a longtime professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and author of “Stocks for the Long Run,” joined the latest episode of the “What Goes Up” podcast...

How to Beat the S&P 500 by 30 Percentage Points from 2022-08-19T08:00

By mimicking strategies common among some quantitative hedge-fund firms, the iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF has surged 21% so far this year—beating the S&P 500 Index by about 30 percent...

Beware an 'Inflation Head Fake' from 2022-08-12T08:00

The chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has a warning for investors who are chasing the latest rally in stocks: Don’t get too excited about a potential peak in inflation...

Fighting Inflation With ETFs from 2022-08-05T08:00

Investors are turning to some thematic exchange-traded funds to hedge against inflation and take advantage of the renewed performance of value stocks this year, according to Listen

Reading the Fed Tea Leaves from 2022-07-29T08:00

Mimi Duff, senior client adviser at the $3 billion registered investment adviser GenTrust, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss the outlook for markets, the economy and borrowing...

Citi Sizes Up the Markets from 2022-07-22T08:00

While China’s stock market has been seen as a Listen

New Risk: Self-Fulfilling Recession Calls from 2022-07-15T08:00

Mark Zandi, who has been an economist for more than three decades, says he’s never seen so many people convinced that a recession is imminent. And while he believes the US economy can still avoi...

How Amateurs Lost Billions on Options from 2022-07-08T08:00

During the day-trading craze that erupted amid the Covid-19 pandemic’s lockdowns, market professionals repeatedly warned a new flock of Reddit-reading, Robinhood-using retail investors that equi...

Cash Is Not Trash from 2022-07-01T08:00

It’s a common motto among investors: Cash is trash. But Oksana Aronov, head of market strategy, alternative fixed income at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, says not so fast.

“I’ve been hear...

Bracing for a Recession from 2022-06-24T08:00

Fiona Cincotta, senior financial markets analyst at City Index in London, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss what she expects in markets, especially as US investors brace for w...

Revenge of the Hedge Funds from 2022-06-17T12:04:54

Anastasia Amoroso, the chief investment strategist at iCapital, joined the latest episode of “What Goes Up” to discuss the market volatility that followed the US Federal Reserve&rsqu...

Stock Market Gets Ironic from 2022-06-10T08:00

It’s a market environment that Alanis Morissette could write a verse Listen

What This Money Manager Learned Traveling in Covid-Zero China from 2022-06-03T08:00

Wenting Shen, an analyst and portfolio manager at Harding Loevener, is traveling through China while navigating the country’s strict Covid-zero policies, visiting ...

`I Need a Solid Panic’ from 2022-05-27T08:00

Victoria Greene, founding partner and chief investment officer at Texas-based G Squared Private Wealth, joined the latest episode of “What Goes Up” to discuss the mood of c...

One Word That Triggers Putin from 2022-05-20T08:00

Daniel Yergin was at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2013 when he got a daunting request: Could he pose the first question from the audience to Vladimir Putin?

“I...

Is Beyoncé Recession-Proof? from 2022-05-13T08:00

As the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame inflation roil both stocks and bonds, investors everywhere are struggling to figure out the best way to play defense in markets amid concerns that ...

The Case for a Soft Landing from 2022-05-06T08:00

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s effort to tame inflation with aggressive interest-rate hikes has some investors worried that a recession is inevitable, leading to a plunge in stock prices this ...

Irrational Exuberance Is Dying (Again) from 2022-04-29T08:00

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously used the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the euphoric investor sentiment that sent tech stocks soaring in the late ...

Better Days Ahead? from 2022-04-22T07:00

Investors have a lot to worry about: Russia’s war on Ukraine, inflation, Covid-19 and China’s lockdowns reigniting supply-chain woes— the list goes on. As a result, many money ...

Clear as Mud from 2022-04-15T07:00

It’s been difficult for even the most-seasoned veterans to discern a market message right now. Oil’s up one day and stocks fall. The next day, crude prices rise and so do stocks. Or ...

Globalization’s Public Defender from 2022-04-08T08:00

Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to further separate t...

Sunburn and Frost Bite from 2022-04-01T08:00

David Bianco, chief investment officer of the Americas for fund manager DWS Group, joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss his cautious near-term outlook for the stock market: “We're quite ...

The Great Wormhole Robbery from 2022-03-25T08:00

Dave Olsen, president and chief investment officer of Jump Trading Group, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss his firm’s investment in cryptocurrency markets, and why it spent $...

Fed Hawks Take Flight from 2022-03-18T08:00

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point and signaled that six more such increases are likely this year—essentially fulfilling what markets were already pricing in...

Will OPEC Ride to the Rescue? from 2022-03-11T05:00

The OPEC+ oil cartel may not ramp up oil production enough to offset the loss of Russian supply that has sent crude above $100 a barrel, according to Javier Blas. Blas, the co-author of “The Wor...

Markets in Wartime from 2022-03-04T09:00

When assessing what a political leader is going to do, Marko Papic doesn’t pay much attention to what the person’s desires are. Instead, he looks at what he calls “material constraints.” In othe...

Learning to Love Crypto Volatility from 2022-02-25T09:00

Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares International Ltd., joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss this year’s collapse in cryptocurrencies and how traditional financial inst...

After the K-Shaped Recovery from 2022-02-18T09:00

Peter Atwater, the consultant and finance professor who coined the phrase “K-shaped recovery” to describe the rebound from the 2020 recession, joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss how a ...

Do Valuations Matter? from 2022-02-11T09:00

We’ve all heard it a million times: stocks got really expensive in the post-financial crisis bull market, especially when looking at cyclically adjusted valuation metrics that include corporate ...

The Growing Crypto Ecosystem from 2022-02-04T09:00

Crypto was red-hot in 2021 — so much so that it spawned a whole ecosystem of related products, including the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund in the U.S. But can companies maintain ent...

The Big Risk for Risk Parity from 2022-01-28T09:00

The balanced-portfolio strategy known as risk parity, which typically relies on investing in both stocks and bonds, needs to adapt as both asset classes come under pressure in a rising-rate envi...

When the Fever Breaks from 2022-01-21T09:00

Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Slimmon joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss how loading up on cyclical stocks helped the MSIF U.S. Core Portfolio mutual fund that he co-manages post a 36% retur...

Dissecting the Tech Wreck from 2022-01-14T09:00

Technology stocks have gotten clobbered this year, and investor attention has focused on rising interest rates as the reason behind it. But that’s not the whole story, says Bloomberg Intelligenc...

Time to Sell Weakness? from 2022-01-07T09:00

Wells Fargo’s head of equity strategy Chris Harvey joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss why he’s predicting a 10% market correction by the summer and share his thoughts on the volatility...

Markets in Hindsight from 2021-12-31T09:00

It was another winning year for John Authers’s Hindsight Capital LLC! The Bloomberg columnist and senior editor joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss how it only took a little ima...

Crypto Coverage Explained from 2021-12-23T09:00

Bloomberg’s managing editor for cryptocurrency coverage, Stacy-Marie Ishmael, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss the wild year in crypto and what she’ll be watching going into ...

Feeling ‘22 from 2021-12-17T18:00

UBS Asset Management strategist Luke Kawa joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss his team’s outlook for 2022, as well as the market’s reaction to plans by the Federal Reserve to re...

Crypto Goes to Congress from 2021-12-10T20:20

FTX is a phenom in the world of crypto exchanges. The company has grown tremendously since its inception a few years ago. This week, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of the...

Omicron Tape Bombs from 2021-12-03T21:00

Investors’ imagination often goes to “dark places” in the face of uncertainty around issues like the new Covid variant and this week they might have overreacted, according to Kara Murphy, the ch...

Can Stocks See a Repeat of 2021? from 2021-11-26T09:00

Wall Street forecasters have been saying all year that a slowdown in the bull market might be in the cards thanks to inflation and growth concerns. The average projection from strategists for th...

Bubble Trouble? from 2021-11-19T19:10:03

A stellar year for the stock market is coming to a close and money-managers are looking ahead to what 2022 might have in store. But worries persist, including the perennially nagging question of...

Pensions&Crypto from 2021-11-12T20:56:05

Steve Kurz, head of asset management at Michael Novogratz’s crypto firm Galaxy Digital, discusses how pensions, endowments and other institutional investors are approaching the digital-asset cla...

Arnott on Bubbles and Valuation Gaps from 2021-11-05T17:03:36

Rob Arnott, chairman and founder of Research Affiliates, discusses how he identifies stock-market bubbles and how to use valuation gaps to identify attractive equities.  

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Melt-Up Time? from 2021-10-29T18:08:40

This week, U.S. economic growth came in lower than expected, some high-profile companies posted disappointing earnings results and central banks worldwide took steps toward withdrawing pandemic-...

Bitcoin Enters Prime Time from 2021-10-22T17:35:50

Dave Abner, global head of business development at crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co. and a two-decade veteran of the ETF industry, talks about the launch of Bitcoin futures exchange-traded funds...

Bank Stock Phobia from 2021-10-15T17:23:04

Halloween is coming, so it’s time to confront a common source of fear: bank stocks.

Ever since the global financial crisis, many investors have been terrified of risks associated with lend...

Introducing: Breakthrough from 2021-10-12T08:00

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We start with an examination of long Covid, a myst...

Freaking Out Over Rates from 2021-10-08T18:56:54

Up 1% one day, down an equal amount the next, the stock market’s been serving up a bout of volatility traders haven’t seen all year. There’s plenty to worry about and, by many measures, pessimis...

Digesting the Taper from 2021-10-01T18:07:09

Treasury yields started to spike soon after the Federal Reserve signaled it’s edging closer to winding down its pandemic-era bond buying. But can stocks do well in that type of environment? Bria...

Money Is Just a Meme from 2021-09-24T19:33:33

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, went from non-existent to taking over the world in record fashion. But what is their utility besides being collectibles? Brian Mosoff, chief executive officer at Et...

Betting on a Value Revival from 2021-09-17T19:25:47

Stocks tied to the economic reopening had a banner 2020 before their performance petered out a few months ago. But Andrew Slimmon, a senior portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Managem...

Bitcoin in Macro Land from 2021-09-10T20:00

El Salvador is not a nation that comes up in global-macro investing discussions very often, but its embrace of Bitcoin as legal tender marks an interesting milestone in the evolution of the cryp...

Bad News is Good News, Again? from 2021-09-03T18:36:09

Some economic reports are coming in weaker than expected as the back-to-normal recovery drags on. To many investors, it means the Federal Reserve will keep the punch bowl fuller for longer. Kim ...

‘Flight to Crap’ from 2021-08-27T19:47

Extraordinary loose monetary policy has led to what Interactive Brokers Chief Strategist Steve Sosnick calls a “flight to crap,” or investor interest in the most-speculative corners of financial...

Now, the Hard Part from 2021-08-20T18:37:49

The rebound in the stock market from the pandemic-induced recession has been breathtaking, with the S&P 500 doubling from its low point in March 2020. Has the proverbial “easy money” all bee...

Where’s the Volatility? from 2021-08-13T19:19:33

Many traders expected this summer to be a volatile one for U.S. markets, but so far it’s been quiet as can be. What happened? Chris Gaffney, head of world markets at TIAA Bank, joins the “What G...

Under-the-Radar Growth from 2021-08-06T08:00

Chris Mack, a portfolio manager at Harding Loevner, discusses his firm’s investment process and how his fund's hunt for “under-the-radar growth” stocks led him to some regional banks. He also di...

A Quant in China’s Casino from 2021-07-30T18:06:41

The attention of global investors returned to China this week as a crackdown on for-profit education companies triggered a massive selloff in the nation’s equity market. Jason Hsu, founder and c...

The Reopening U-Turn from 2021-07-23T19:03:57

Rebecca Patterson, director of investment research at Bridgewater Associates, discusses the reversal in some of the market moves triggered by optimism about the reopening of economies shut down ...

Holding a Mirror Up to the Stock Market from 2021-07-16T17:47:44

What is the point of creating synthetic stocks and ETFs to trade on the blockchain with cryptocurrencies? 

Do Kwon, co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, explains how mirrored assets like ...

Old Growth Is New Again from 2021-07-09T18:49:59

Well, so much for that reflation and reopening trade. David Bianco, chief investment officer for the Americas at DWS Group, discusses why high-growth, digitally focused companies are back on the...

Transitory Is in the Eye of Beholder from 2021-07-02T17:54:52

It’s the top question on the minds of everyone involved in the markets these days: How long is “transitory” when it comes to the Federal Reserve’s view on hotter-than-normal inflation? Jim Smigi...

A Quant’s Take on Meme Stocks from 2021-06-25T18:55:15

Dimensional Fund Advisors, which manages $637 billion, was one of the first firms to take seminal academic financial research off of the campus and put it to work in the real-world art of managi...

Dot Plot Shocker from 2021-06-18T18:12:01

A few dots moved higher on a Federal Reserve chart of interest rate projections, and it caught many investors by surprise. Yet the hawkish turn tamped down market-based readings of inflation exp...

The Boomer Boom from 2021-06-11T08:00

What generation will drive the consumer economy and create stock-market winners in the post-pandemic world? Lauren Hill, a portfolio manager and analyst at Westwood Holdings Group Inc., says it ...

A Million Miles From the Memes from 2021-06-04T19:10

They’re baaaaack! Day-trader cult stocks like AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. are dominating investors’ attention once again, with eye-popping rallies and crashes and even some free popcorn thro...

Peak Recovery from 2021-05-28T17:15:33

Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors in London, discusses the state of the global economy and why the equity rally seems to have hit the snooze button. The U.S. has reached...

Crypto Contagion from 2021-05-21T18:46:07

For years, cryptocurrencies were considered fringe investments on Wall Street, but this week a massive intraday plunge in Bitcoin corresponded with a big drop in the stock market. Has crypto con...

Inflation Shocker from 2021-05-14T23:38:23

A shockingly high reading in the consumer price index landed with a bang in markets this week. Zachary Griffiths, a macro strategist with Wells Fargo, joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discus...

Over the Borderline from 2021-05-07T18:03:14

Vincent Deluard, director of global macro strategy at the brokerage StoneX Group, discusses how Mexico and Canada may be primed to benefit from the continued reopening of the U.S. economy follow...

Bridgewater on Bubbles from 2021-04-30T19:50:22

Greg Jensen, the co-chief investment officer for the hedge-fund manager Bridgewater Associates, discusses this week’s Federal Reserve meeting and the firm’s approach to identifying excesses and ...

After the Meme-Stock Gold Rush from 2021-04-23T19:00

Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, joined the latest episode of the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss what appears to be a shift in focus among the crowds of new day...

Allocating for the Boom from 2021-04-16T18:30

Economic growth in 2021 is forecast to be unlike anything seen in the last several decades as the world begins to return to normal following the Covid-19 pandemic. Gaurav Mallik, chief portfolio...

A Quant’s Take on Innovation from 2021-04-09T19:51:32

He was one of the first money managers to deploy factor-investing strategies at his firm Gerstein Fisher, but now Gregg Fisher is trying something new: A quantitative approach to picking stocks ...

Yields Aren’t Done Yet from 2021-03-26T18:18:09

The swift rise in Treasury yields that triggered some wild swings in the stock market stopped this week – at least temporarily. Shawn Snyder, the head of investment strategy at Citi Personal Wea...

Inflation&Valuation Vertigo from 2021-03-19T17:48

Financial markets have become obsessed with the possibility of faster-than-normal inflation this year as economies reopen from Covid lockdowns. But inflation is a nuanced concept, so what differ...

Introducing: Doubt from 2021-03-16T08:00

A few decades ago, nobody really questioned vaccines. They were viewed as a standard part of staying healthy and safe. Today, the number of people questioning vaccines risks prolonging a pandemi...

Markets Vs. Central Banks from 2021-03-12T20:32:47

Bond yields are rising, commodity prices are jumping, and stock markets around the globe are soaring. To David Adams, the chief investment officer at Reminiscent Capital, it all adds up to a sin...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3 from 2021-03-08T09:00

More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is nearly six times greater than that of the average Black family. Season 3 of The Pay Check dig...

Grandma Likes Amazon from 2021-03-05T18:34:16

The flattening of the Covid case curve and the re-opening of economies around the world is causing big ripples in the stock market, with investors selling off the Internet-based companies that l...

Ragin’ Rates from 2021-02-26T19:16:28

The surge in Treasury yields this week caught a lot of investors off-guard, triggering a bout of volatility in the stock market. Amanda Agati, chief investment strategist for PNC Financial Servi...

Death of Austerity from 2021-02-19T20:31:18

Marko Papic, partner and chief strategist at hedge-fund seeder Clocktower Group, discusses how the current economic and market cycle will be vastly different than the tepid recovery from the glo...

Getting Paid to Own Stocks from 2021-02-12T19:50:46

The dislocations in markets last year created a fleeting opportunity to buy stocks that pay big dividends on the cheap. Sorting through which companies had the wherewithal to weather the pandemi...

Macro Man Vs. YOLO Boy from 2021-02-05T20:55:06

Like a lot of parents these days, Cameron Crise is dealing with a teenager at home who wants to get into day-trading and reap the type of the windfalls boasted about by the WallStreetBets crowd....

Heavy Rotation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Promising results in a coronavirus vaccine test triggered a wild rotation in the stock market this week. Lauren Goodwin, economist and strategist at New York Life Investments, joins the latest epis...

A Top 1% Manager’s Strategy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Many investors, like most Americans, have been fixated on the political drama of this year’s presidential election. But when it comes to picking stocks, Jamie Cuellar has kept his eye on the longer...

The Great Dollar Slowdown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The velocity of money is an attempt to estimate the average number of times a dollar changes hands. It crashed to record lows during the pandemic as the savings rate surged. But it had been trendin...

Dollar Doldrums from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The dollar has been in a slump against major currencies in the last few months, and betting on more declines has become a popular trade. Wells Fargo macro strategist Zachary Griffiths discusses how...

Army of Day Traders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The shift to commission-free trading and the stay-at-home environment of 2020 helped usher a new army of day traders into the stock and equity-options markets. How will this influential cohort affe...

Forecast: A 'Tech-Stock Tsunami' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

An antitrust report by Democratic staffers for the House of Representatives this week sent chills down the spine of investors holding shares of the major U.S. technology and internet companies that...

SPAC Attack from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A stock market that sometimes seems bulletproof in the face of adversity can make it challenging for hedge funds looking for companies to sell short in anticipation of share-price declines. Ben Axl...

Buffett’s 'Elephant Gun' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Warren Buffett has referred to the massive cash pile at his company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as his “elephant gun,” meaning he’s always on the prowl for an opportunity to shoot large sums of money a...

The Options Explosion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

An explosion of trading in equity options among day-traders is suspected of helping to fuel the rally in U.S. stocks this summer. Chris Murphy, co-head of derivatives strategy at Susquehanna Intern...

Another Tech Wreck from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The selloff in high-flying technology stocks continued this week after a breathtaking rally over the previous five months. Is the bubbling bursting, or is this just a minor setback for the perennia...

Ugh! Not Politics Again! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The U.S. stock market’s melt-up seems to have ended in spectacular fashion this week, and now many on Wall Street are turning their attention to the election in November as a potential source of ri...

Volatility From Voting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Politics has become one of the most-important drivers in markets and this year’s U.S. presidential election is shaping up to be the main focus of traders and investors in all asset classes. Naufal ...

A Market Wearing 'Rose-Colored Glasses' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Campbell Harvey, finance professor at Duke University and a senior adviser at Research Affiliates, is well known for his research on the yield curve as a recession indicator. While no one could hav...

The MMT Experiment is Underway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Robert Hormats, who has worked in senior economic and trade policy roles under five different U.S. presidents and spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., believes the Covid-19 pandemic has forc...

Reflections of a Goldman Sachs Manager from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

At the benchmark level, equity levels by many measures look stretched. But Katie Koch, co-head of fundamental equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, says there’s plenty of areas within the stock...

The Bull Case for Gold from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lee Ferridge, head of North America macro strategy for State Street Global Markets, has been bullish on gold since late 2018, when an attempt at quantitative tightening by the Federal Reserve sent ...

Rob Arnott on Bubbles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Rob Arnott, chairman and co-founder of Research Affiliates, has spent a lot of time studying market bubbles. He shares what he’s learned, and give his takeaways about the current environment for in...

Introducing: Blood River, A New Podcast From Bloomberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed in the previous five years, yet almost ...

A View of Markets From Overseas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Based in Sydney, Australia, David Adams, the chief investment officer at Reminiscent Capital, picked up on funding market stress early on. That helped his firm’s Asia-focused macro strategy impleme...

The Melt-Up After the Meltdown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The furious rebound in the U.S. equity market over the last few months runs the risk of turning into a "melt-up," according to Wells Fargo strategist Anna Han. She explains what’s driving the surge...

Views of a Top Growth Manager from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It’s a perennial debate among market wonks: when will growth stocks finally stop outperforming value stocks for more than a short period? And what has driven the outperformance? Daniel Davidowitz, ...

Pin the Tail Risk on the Quant from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This year’s volatility in markets has highlighted how investors can protect their portfolios with tail-risk hedging strategies. Meb Faber, co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investm...

Bear-Market Flashback from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stocks crashed back to Earth this week after a breathtakingly fast rebound from the bear market of February and March. What caused the plunge? And is the rally over? Medley Global Advisors macro st...

Get Me Out! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As lockdowns are eased across the country, Americans are slowly but surely getting out of their homes and engaging with the world outside again. That provides some opportunities for investors to be...

‘Scared For the Market’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investors across Wall Street are beginning to wonder if the risk rebound has further room to run. Fed policy is extremely stimulative, economies are reopening, and slices of the market hit hard by ...

It’s Already 2021 in the Market from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What explains the resiliency of the U.S. stock market, despite the worst economic data in most of our lifetimes? Susan Schmidt, head of U.S. equities at Aviva Investors in Chicago, says the market ...

An Historic Crash from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It was 10 years ago this month that the S&P 500 dropped 5% in four minutes. Now, the infamous day is known as the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, and a decade later global markets are again facing extr...

Death of the Buyback? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This is a year when unthinkable events have become commonplace. That has some investors wondering if the Federal Reserve could end up making what was previously an unthinkable move: purchasing stoc...

Treasury’s $1.9 Trillion Quarter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The U.S. Treasury is auctioning a dizzying amount of bonds to pay for the government’s economic relief efforts. Will the market be able to digest this mountain of supply? Wells Fargo Securities mac...

Sell the Reopen News? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As several states take tentative steps to reopen their economies following lockdowns to slow the spread of Covid-19, the big question for investors is whether a V-shaped recovery is in store. Baird...

Harvesting 'Crisis Alpha’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

They say every crisis is also an opportunity, and some trend-following investment strategies are proving that true by reaping strong returns amid the chaos in markets triggered by the Covid-19 pand...

Misbehaving in a Pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Covid-19 virus is messing with all our heads, and that can cause investors to make some classic mistakes. Meanwhile, government stimulus efforts could lead to some skewed incentives for consume...

Bankers on the Frontlines from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

While the world agonizes over grim statistics showing the growing number of victims of the novel coronavirus, professional money managers are forced to make important decisions on behalf of clients...

Quick to Fall, Quick to Rise from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Quick to fall, quick to rise -- such has been the story of the stock market. After tumbling more than 30%, this week was met with the fastest period of gains since the 1930s. But will the fierce ra...

The Sell-Everything Strategy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

While the bear market in stocks has been alarming, dislocations in the corporate credit markets are arguably more dangerous for the stability of the financial system and the economy. Winifred Cisar...

Buy The Dip Is Dead from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As if the last few weeks weren’t volatile enough, this one was even worse. Swings were so wild that exchange-rules forced trading halts – multiple times. Thursday saw the worst day for the S&P 500 ...

Waiting for the Panic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Spasms of volatility continued to shake financial markets this week as the novel coronavirus spread in the U.S. and Europe. When will it all end and when will it be safe to buy this epic dip in the...

Can Fed Fight the Virus? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Financial markets around the world have been roiled by the spread of the novel coronavirus, and it’s unclear what if anything the Federal Reserve and other central banks can do to stop the bleeding...

Hedging an Epidemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Flows into ProShares exchange-traded funds this year show investor appetite for investments that benefit from a declining stock market as the coronavirus threatens economic growth and investor conf...

Tales of a Top 1% Fund Manager from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

With passive and factor investing dominating the strategies of more and more investors, one would be forgiven for thinking that traditional bottoms-up stock picking is a dying art. But they’d be wr...

UBS’s China Bull from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

China’s intense effort to contain the deadly new coronavirus is causing major damage to the nation’s economy and sending ripples through global financial markets. But it hasn’t shaken the convictio...

Velocity of Risk Goes Viral from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Paranoia about the coronavirus is spreading rapidly around the world, and the reaction in financial markets has been swift. Principal Global Investors strategist Seema Shah discusses how the “veloc...

A Market Immune From Illness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Déjà vu? A week dominated by headlines of a spreading respiratory virus had investors recalling pandemics past, from SARS in 2003 to the Ebola scare six years ago. To discuss what the Wuhan virus c...

Learning to Love Lousy Stocks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sometimes, it’s best to rip up the playbook, hold your nose and buy some of the worst stocks you can find. That’s the message from Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse. He ...

Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Americans are paying more and getting less for their health care than ever before. On the new season of Prognosis, reporter John Tozzi explores what went wrong. 

Fundamentals in the Fog of War from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. benchmark stock indexes climbed to record highs this week even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be on the brink of war. The return of investment-risk appetites was attributed to what appears t...

Your 2020 Guide from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New year, new predictions. With 2020 off to the races, projections from strategists across Wall Street are now set in stone. Will market leadership change? Will a correction materialize over the ne...

Remembering 2019 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

An inverted yield curve. Fears of recession. Three rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. And a boatload of negative yielding debt. All remnants of a year to remember, when everything rallied and U.S....

OK Boomer, Time to Rebalance from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It was a fabulous year to be invested in stocks or bonds. But what’s in store for 2020? Nela Richardson, an investment strategist at Edward Jones, and Bloomberg columnist Cameron Crise give their o...

Economic Worries Begin to Fade from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Multiple central bank meetings, a trade deal, a U.K. election, impeachment—all in the span of a week. To make sense of it all, Mike Schumacher, the head of rates strategy at Wells Fargo Securities,...

The Right Way to Be Wrong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Veteran stock-market strategist Jeffrey Saut’s retirement lasted only three weeks. Now he’s back, to explain why all the hand-wringing about 2020 may not be necessary. Saut isn’t worried about the ...

Make Money, Save the Planet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Climate change is arguably the biggest problem facing mankind in the 21st century, and any serious effort to slow it will require further massive investments in clean energy. At investment firm GMO...

Populism: As Popular as Ever from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As 2020 approaches, the financial industry is busy issuing global outlooks for the new year. Recession? Trade deal? Higher or lower bond yields? Wilmington Trust Corp. threw another major risk into...

A Downer in December? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

As U.S. benchmark stock indexes keep hitting new highs, at least one Wall Street strategist is on alert for a potential pullback by year’s end. Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equity strategy at RBC C...

Panic in the Bond Disco from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The bond market has taken a major U-turn in recent weeks, causing the ever-important 10-year Treasury yield to jump from a three-year low of less than 1.43% in September to almost 2% on Thursday. I...

How U.S. Yields Could Go Negative from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Negative interest rates! They’re all the rage in Europe, but could this trend come to the U.S. financial system in the foreseeable future? Lauren Goodwin, an economist and multi-asset portfolio str...

Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg's Travel Genius podcast is back! After clocking another hundred-thousand miles in the sky, hosts Nikki Ekstein and Mark Ellwood have a whole new series of flight hacking, restaurant sleut...

Chile’s Popular Unrest Is a Lesson for the World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If it can happen in Chile, it can happen anywhere. That’s what Bloomberg Opinion columnist John Authers wrote this week as demonstrations broke out across the South American nation, long considered...

World's Hottest Market from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The buzz on Wall Street this week was about the latest earnings reports from the big banks, and a Vanity Fair report on suspicious “Trump Chaos” trades in the futures market. Meanwhile, a small nat...

Don’t Call It QE from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week insisted that a plan to buy Treasury bills to build up excess bank reserves wasn’t the same thing as the central bank’s previous asset purchases, kn...

Impeachment and Fat Tails from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Officials from China are heading to Washington for trade talks next week, just as President Donald Trump battles the House of Representatives over impeachment hearings. How should investors prepare...

Introducing Stephanomics Season 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, returns to bring you another season of on-the-ground insight into the forces driving global growth and jobs today. From the cosmetics maker in Calif...

Much Ado About Impeachment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to open a formal impeachment inquiry over President Donald Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joseph Biden exploded in the ...

A Week of Curve Balls from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A stock market trying to notch new record highs this week was thrown a great deal of curve balls. Attacks on Saudi oil facilities sent crude prices surging. The Federal Reserve lowered interest rat...

Billionaire Ken Fisher Boxes With Wall Street from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

While on the surface it looked like a calm week for the stock market, there was a lot of turbulence down below. Rising interest rates caused investors to rotate out of once high-flying momentum and...

Business Goes To Chemistry Class from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When you think of the Periodic Table of Elements, what comes to mind? Maybe chemistry class, or flashbacks to memorizing combinations of letters and numbers. But what about markets? This week on “W...

The Data Detective from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The cost of a bacon cheeseburger. The average size of a U.S. home, and the average number of people who live in it. The number of Google searches for words like “cheap gas,” “coupons” and “Dow Jone...

Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this new season of Prognosis, we look at the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. You're probably more likely to have heard of these as superbugs. Their rise has b...

The China Syndrome from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Near record-low, and even negative, interest rates have captivated investors around the world. But are they here to stay? Chad Morganlander and Kevin Caron, portfolio managers at Washington Crossin...

Hong Kong. Yield Curve. Oh My. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chaos in Hong Kong. A cross-asset market shock in Argentina. And that dreaded yield-curve inversion—a fleeting drop in 10-year U.S yields below 2-year rates—goes viral by creating panic-selling in ...

Currency Wars from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On Monday, China let its currency depreciate by the most since 2015, then later in the week President Donald Trump put more pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to weaken the U.S. ...

What If the ‘Powell Put’ Fails? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Federal Reserve has the stock market’s back, right? That’s what a lot of investors have come to believe. The so-called “Yellen put” (after former Fed Chair Janet Yellen) has rolled over into th...

Record Stocks Amid Recession Signals from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The stock market is trading near record highs yet concern about a potential recession continues to linger in the air, and that’s a tough dichotomy for investors to wrap their heads around, says Sha...

Stocks Stare Down a 'Low Bar' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Second quarter earnings season has officially begun. This week, the biggest banks set the stage for what could mark the S&P 500’s first quarterly profit decline in three years. Will underwhelming r...

TINA's Back in Town? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

With apologies to Bruce Springsteen, as the Fed prepares to cut interest rates for the first time in a decade, it looks like There Is No Alternative (again!) to U.S. equities. Is the S&P 500's rall...

One Market That Volatility Forgot from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The U.S. stock market’s best first half of a year since 1997 is in the books, as is a ferocious rally in Treasuries, and the second half is poised to be dominated by speculation about what the Fede...

Ain’t Nothin’ But a G-20 Thang from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

All eyes are on the Group of 20 nations meeting in Japan this weekend, with investors on the edge of their seats for news of progress in trade talks between the U.S. and China. News reports suggest...

Jerome Powell’s Necktie Is Too Tight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Simultaneous pressure from markets and President Donald Trump to lower interest rates makes Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell look like a guy whose necktie is too tight, says Julian Emanuel, c...

The Fine Art of Short-Selling from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Short-seller Ben Axler’s Spruce Point Capital Management is thriving in the age of computerized investing by going where the machines don’t. He joins this week’s conversation to share how he digs d...

Embracing 'Maverick Risk' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the midst of a multi-front trade war, Wall Street has advised that investors shun emerging market stocks. Rob Arnott, the founder of Research Affiliates and “godfather” of smart beta investing, ...

Border Bombshell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investors hadn’t quite finished wrapping their heads around what the escalating trade tensions with China would mean for their portfolios when President Donald Trump lobbed another bombshell into m...

It’s a Tech War Now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Relations between the U.S. and China took a dangerous turn this week, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Gina Martin Adams: It’s now a technology war, not just a trade war. She joins co-hosts Sa...

The Art of (Trade) War from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Donald Trump’s bestseller "The Art of the Deal" is often cited by those trying to understand the president’s negotiating tactics as he escalates trade tensions with China. Ben Emons, a macro strate...

Skunk at the Garden Party from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Renewed trade tensions between the U.S and China arrived in markets like a “skunk at the garden party,” according to David Joy, the chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial who has more than...

Introducing: Business of Bees from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

These days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn’t be possible without commercial bee pollination. And the economic value of insect pollination worldwide is estimated to be about $217 bil...

The 'Four Horsemen' of Recession from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Campbell Harvey, finance professor at Duke University and a senior adviser at Research Affiliates, joins Sarah Ponczek and Mike Regan in this week’s episode of the “What Goes Up” podcast. He discus...

Stocks Surge, Bears Balk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the debut episode of “What Goes Up,” hosts Sarah Ponczek and Mike Regan explore what’s driving the stock market’s gains and why some bears are skeptical that the rally will be sustainable. Bloom...

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek are joined each week by expert guests to discuss the main themes influencing global markets. They explore everything from stocks ...

Value in a Frothy Market from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Danton Goei, who runs global investment strategies at Davis Funds, discusses what opportunities he's seeing around the world as the end of the coronavirus pandemic comes into sight. Yes, it’s a fro...

The Great Debate of 2021 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the wake of Covid-19, corporations this year issued trillions of dollars of debt to make it through. Now, according to Josh Lohmeier, head of North American investment-grade credit at Aviva Inve...

The World Outside Tech Stocks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The recent rotation in the equity market has made the once no-brainer decision to bet big on big tech a little more complicated. Jacqueline Remmen, senior wealth strategy associate at UBS Private W...

Where Money Goes to Die from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Randy Dishmon doesn't care much for investment strategies based on lumping stocks into boxes with labels like growth and value. The manager of the Invesco Global Focus Fund, which has returned 46% ...

The New 60/40: 100/0? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Barely-there yields in the bond market have led to a search for other strategies to diversify portfolios with assets that will cushion the blow from any future drop in stocks. Peter van Dooijeweert...

'Stupid Prices' from 2021-01-29T18:38:48

The drama surrounding GameStop Corp. and other high-flying stocks targeted by social media-influenced traders has triggered a debate about behavior in markets and what regulators should do about...

Tesla and AOL from 2021-01-22T19:25:40

Why does Tesla joining the S&P 500 remind Wells Fargo Securities’ head of equity strategy of AOL and the dot-com boom and bust era? He also explains why he’s sticking with his year-end estim...

Rebooting the China Relationship from 2021-01-15T20:19:18

The upcoming inauguration of Joe Biden as president offers the U.S. a chance to reboot its relationship with China after a tumultuous four years under Donald Trump. Bob Hormats of investment fir...

Perpetual Motion Stocks from 2021-01-08T19:28:23

Another week, another record high for stocks – even in the midst of political unrest. Vincent Deluard, director of global macro strategy at StoneX Group Inc., discusses the disconnect between st...

New Year… New Markets? from 2021-01-01T09:00

Peter Cecchini, founder and CEO of AlphaOmega Advisors, discusses the crazy year that was 2020 in markets, and gives his outlook for what’s to come. Topics include efficacy of the Federal Reserv...

Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus from 2020-03-25T12:09:38

Harnessing Bloomberg's reporting from every continent, Bloomberg's daily Prognosis podcast brings the news, data and analysis you need for living in the time of Covid-19. In around ten minutes, we ...

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg from 2019-04-16T14:50

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek are joined each week by expert guests to discuss the main themes influencing global markets. They explore everything from stocks ...

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg from 2019-04-16T14:50

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek are joined each week by expert guests to discuss the main themes influencing global markets. They explore everything from stocks ...