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Hosts Mike Regan and Vildana Hajric are joined each week by expert guests to discuss the main themes influencing global markets. They explore everything from stocks to bonds to currencies and commodities, and how each asset class affects trading in the others. Whether you’re a financial professional… read more

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

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Listen Now: The Big Take

March 26th, 2024

1:00

The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters around the world. The context you need on the stories that can move markets. …

Introducing: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

February 29th, 2024

1:37

The Deal, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business titans, sports champions and game-changing entrepreneurs who reveal their investment philosophies, pivotal career moves …

Elon, Inc: Elon Musk Bingo on Tesla’s Earnings Call

January 23rd, 2024

27:40

From our friends over at the Elon, Inc. podcast from Businessweek, hosted by David Papadopoulos, is this special episode we're sharing to our What …

Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

December 15th, 2023

0:51

Bloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report on today's top stories. Listen for the latest news, whenever you want it, covering global business stories around the world.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy …

Introducing: Elon, Inc.

November 14th, 2023

0:43

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 …

Listen Now: GMO's Jeremy Grantham on Merryn Talks Money

October 6th, 2023

6:03

Hey 'What Goes Up' listeners, here's another Bloomberg podcast you might enjoy: Merryn Talks Money. It's hosted by senior columnist Merryn Somerset …

Why China’s Real Estate Crisis Is Different

September 29th, 2023

36:52

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’ Jason Hsu, there’s an …

Is the Fed Done Raising Rates? Ellen Zentner Thinks So

September 22nd, 2023

39:09

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 done here—but they have left …

Human Trafficking in the Crypto Rabbit Hole

September 15th, 2023

35:05

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 …

A Dip Worth Buying?

September 8th, 2023

26:44

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 September. Sylvia Jablonski, …

How to Avoid Getting Burned by the AI Hype

September 1st, 2023

38:16

There’s a lot of excitement around AI-focused stocks right now, but market veteran Art Hogan urges caution when it comes to companies that are just trying to take advantage of the hype without having true ties to the …

Matt Levine on Why 'Everything Is Securities Fraud'

August 25th, 2023

36:10

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

BlackRock Shakes Up the Bitcoin ETF Race

August 18th, 2023

46:58

Crypto fanatics have been pining for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund for a decade now. But as the applications piled up, US regulators repeatedly …

The `Odd Lots' Crossover Episode

August 11th, 2023

44:29

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 has tried to tackle some of the …

What You Need to Know About Gold

August 3rd, 2023

44:51

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 …

Vanguard's Hard Pass on a `Soft Landing'

July 28th, 2023

38:37

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 where the Federal …

When Will Commercial Real Estate Market Hit Bottom?

July 21st, 2023

39:20

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 …

There's No Magic to Fed's 2% Inflation Target

July 14th, 2023

31:36

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 …

The World's Food Supply Needs to Change

July 7th, 2023

42:46

Global shifts in incomes and populations, geopolitics and the climate crisis are combining to drastically alter the outlook for the world’s food …

What If There Was a Recession and No One Noticed?

June 30th, 2023

43:39

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 intriguing explanation: …

How Covid Rewired Markets and the Economy

June 23rd, 2023

46:04

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 …

AI's 'Big Bang' Moment

June 16th, 2023

33:18

Enthusiasm for artificial intelligence has powered a breakneck rally in US equities this year, far overshadowing the US Federal Reserve’s campaign to …

Seema Shah Makes the Case for a Short-Lived Recession

June 9th, 2023

28:46

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 …

Using AI to Explain Stock Moves

June 2nd, 2023

28:18

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 jobs. MarketReader, …

Betting (on) the Farm

May 26th, 2023

30:31

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 AcreTrader in an effort …

With Fed Pause Likely, Here Are Ideas for Your Cash

May 19th, 2023

32:43

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 …

The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is an Opportunity

May 12th, 2023

28:22

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

The Fed Won't Ride to the Rescue

May 5th, 2023

34:07

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, senior economist at Wells …

The Fed's Not Done Breaking Things

April 28th, 2023

40:11

While the drama surrounding regional US banks has largely subsided following the failure of three lenders in March, that doesn’t mean the ripple …

Morgan Stanley Braces for a Soft Landing

April 21st, 2023

30:51

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 …

The Case for a 22% Drop in S&P 500

April 14th, 2023

41:35

Troy Gayeski, chief market strategist at FS Investments, says don’t wait until May to flee the stock market rally—get out now. He joined the What Goes Up podcast to explain why he’s expecting the S&P 500 to bottom …

Man Group's Stock Skepticism

April 7th, 2023

38:52

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 that they’re sporting …

A Quant Takes on Microcaps

March 31st, 2023

36:22

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 …

Flashbacks to 2008

March 24th, 2023

38:49

When Steve Sosnick recalls 2008 and tries to make parallels to the current turmoil in the banking sector, one memory sticks out: riding the elevator with Thomas Peterffy, founder of Interactive Brokers, who offhandedly …

The Huge Significance of Small Banks

March 17th, 2023

39:43

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 at all. But for Slok, …

Jeremy Grantham's Market Meat-Grinder

March 10th, 2023

47:17

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 …

A Soft Landing Is Getting Harder

March 3rd, 2023

43:35

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 inflation without …

BlackRock on 'Fixing' the 40 in 60/40

February 24th, 2023

40:41

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 Treasuries have attracted …

Don’t Feel Bullied by the Stock Rally

February 17th, 2023

32:54

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 …

How Wall Street Is Using AI to Build ETFs

February 10th, 2023

40:01

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 being used on Wall …

(Mis)interpreting the Fed

February 3rd, 2023

47:11

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 Chair Jerome Powell.

“This is a guy …

AlphaSimplex on Embracing the 'Uncomfortable'

January 27th, 2023

38:02

The rare bright spots for investing last year were those strategies that follow trends in markets rather than fundamentals. This successful approach …

Fading the New Year's Bounce

January 20th, 2023

42:09

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, however, is skeptical of …

Savita Subramanian's Earnings-Season Reality Check

January 13th, 2023

39:24

Get ready for some bad earnings-season news. That’s the call from Savita Subramanian, the head of equity and quantitative strategy at Bank of America, who is expecting a 10% drop in earnings that will likely keep a lid …

Fidelity Sees a Return to Bear-Market Lows

January 6th, 2023

37:44

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 revisit its bear-market …

SBF's Love of Risk

December 30th, 2022

41:26

Before his FTX cryptocurrency empire collapsed, many of Sam Bankman-Fried’s public statements indicated that he made decisions “as though he had no …

JPMorgan's Obituary for Globalization

December 23rd, 2022

42:19

The decades-long trend of globalization has come to an end and the fracturing of geopolitics will have huge implications for capital markets and …

The Calendar Won't Cure the Chaos

December 16th, 2022

29:07

Don’t expect volatile equity-market swings to go away when the calendar flips to 2023, says Edward Jones senior investment strategist Mona Mahajan, …

TINA's Dead and Bonds Are Back

December 9th, 2022

40:33

Bonds are back—and they appear to be the preferred asset class as we head into the uncertain economic environment in 2023, according to Gargi Chaudhuri, head of investment strategy for the Americas at BlackRock’s …

5% Inflation for a Decade?

December 2nd, 2022

47:05

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 contends growth in …

FTX 'Horror Stories' in the Bahamas

November 23rd, 2022

41:19

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-bankrupt exchange like a …

Life in Crypto After FTX

November 18th, 2022

41:34

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 …

FTX Shows Crypto Still the ‘Wild West’

November 11th, 2022

41:37

FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange rattled the financial world this week when a crisis of investor confidence triggered a run, forcing the company to …

Institutions' Slow-Motion Crypto Embrace

November 4th, 2022

45:46

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 Bitcoin, Ether and other …

The Worst Way to Fix Inflation

October 28th, 2022

42:14

There are better ways to combat inflation than destroying demand with interest-rate increases, according to Nela Richardson, chief economist for …

The Fed Is Playing a ‘Dangerous Game’

October 21st, 2022

37:24

The stock market has been getting very volatile as the US Federal Reserve continues its historic effort to squash rising prices. Proclamations from …

Paul Volcker, Market Psychologist

October 14th, 2022

43:59

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 memory of a similar …

Flash Boys in the Crypto Cloud

October 7th, 2022

44:16

Institutional investors are playing a more-influential role in crypto markets as retail traders retreat, and that explains much of the recent …

Liz Truss's Ronald Reagan Moment

September 30th, 2022

49:00

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered the latest wave of turbulence in global markets after announcing economic plans that include unfunded tax cuts. …

A Quant's Take on Inflation

September 23rd, 2022

38:59

Sometimes it feels like you need to be a rocket scientist to trade successfully in modern markets. Well, George Patterson used to be one, having …

A 'Cheat Code' for the Bond Market

September 16th, 2022

46:05

George Cipolloni’s son is a video-game aficionado, and the teenager’s language has clearly worn off on his father. Indeed, the portfolio manager at …

The Long Runway for Bond Shorts

September 9th, 2022

49:58

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 looks like it has further …

A Farmer's Take on the Economy

September 2nd, 2022

48:51

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 lingering …

Siegel on Inflation, the Fed and Meme Stocks

August 26th, 2022

43:39

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 …

How to Beat the S&P 500 by 30 Percentage Points

August 19th, 2022

44:44

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 percentage points. Andrew Beer, …

Beware an 'Inflation Head Fake'

August 12th, 2022

41:00

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 after the consumer price …

Fighting Inflation With ETFs

August 5th, 2022

50:07

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 Jay Jacobs, US head of thematics and active …

Reading the Fed Tea Leaves

July 29th, 2022

52:27

Mimi Duff, senior client adviser at the $3 billion registered investment adviser GenTrust, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss the …

Citi Sizes Up the Markets

July 22nd, 2022

37:27

While China’s stock market has been seen as a pariah by some global investors this year, Citigroup is taking a contrarian view, positing a bullish …

New Risk: Self-Fulfilling Recession Calls

July 15th, 2022

47:19

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 avoid an economic downturn, …

How Amateurs Lost Billions on Options

July 8th, 2022

32:58

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 equity options were risky, …

Cash Is Not Trash

July 1st, 2022

50:36

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 hearing about investors losing money …

Bracing for a Recession

June 24th, 2022

36:19

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 what some say is the …

Revenge of the Hedge Funds

June 17th, 2022

42:35

Anastasia Amoroso, the chief investment strategist at iCapital, joined the latest episode of “What Goes Up” to discuss the market volatility that …

Stock Market Gets Ironic

June 10th, 2022

42:04

It’s a market environment that Alanis Morissette could write a verse about. Any positive upcoming US economic data may very well receive a poor …

What This Money Manager Learned Traveling in Covid-Zero China

June 3rd, 2022

32:41

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

`I Need a Solid Panic’

May 27th, 2022

48:24

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 clients and why she thinks the 2022 market …

One Word That Triggers Putin

May 20th, 2022

49:53

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 …

Is Beyoncé Recession-Proof?

May 13th, 2022

53:35

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 a recession is on the horizon. …

The Case for a Soft Landing

May 6th, 2022

40:48

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 year. Not so fast, says Jeremy …

Irrational Exuberance Is Dying (Again)

April 29th, 2022

46:37

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 1990s. And everyone knows what …

Better Days Ahead?

April 22nd, 2022

33:58

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 …

Clear as Mud

April 15th, 2022

51:28

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 …

Globalization’s Public Defender

April 8th, 2022

57:14

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 the world’s economies, and …

Sunburn and Frost Bite

April 1st, 2022

39:54

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 concerned about the …

The Great Wormhole Robbery

March 25th, 2022

53:17

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 $320 million to rescue a …

Fed Hawks Take Flight

March 18th, 2022

47:10

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point and signaled that six more such increases are likely this year—essentially …

Will OPEC Ride to the Rescue?

March 11th, 2022

43:39

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 World For Sale: Money, …

Markets in Wartime

March 4th, 2022

47:00

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 …

Learning to Love Crypto Volatility

February 25th, 2022

51:10

Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares International Ltd., joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss this year’s collapse in …

After the K-Shaped Recovery

February 18th, 2022

38:37

Peter Atwater, the consultant and finance professor who coined the phrase “K-shaped recovery” to describe the rebound from the 2020 recession, joined …

Do Valuations Matter?

February 11th, 2022

54:42

We’ve all heard it a million times: stocks got really expensive in the post-financial crisis bull market, especially when looking at cyclically …

The Growing Crypto Ecosystem

February 4th, 2022

43:01

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 …

The Big Risk for Risk Parity

January 28th, 2022

44:11

The balanced-portfolio strategy known as risk parity, which typically relies on investing in both stocks and bonds, needs to adapt as both asset …

When the Fever Breaks

January 21st, 2022

42:06

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 …

Dissecting the Tech Wreck

January 14th, 2022

45:39

Technology stocks have gotten clobbered this year, and investor attention has focused on rising interest rates as the reason behind it. But that’s …

Time to Sell Weakness?

January 7th, 2022

39:27

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 …

Markets in Hindsight

December 31st, 2021

28:13

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” …

Crypto Coverage Explained

December 23rd, 2021

41:07

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 2022.

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Feeling ‘22

December 17th, 2021

38:07

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 reduce asset purchases and …

Crypto Goes to Congress

December 10th, 2021

42:19

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 cryptocurrency exchange, …

Omicron Tape Bombs

December 3rd, 2021

33:39

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 chief investment officer of …

Can Stocks See a Repeat of 2021?

November 26th, 2021

31:47

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. …

Bubble Trouble?

November 19th, 2021

38:28

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 whether the stock market …

Pensions & Crypto

November 12th, 2021

38:50

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 class.

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Arnott on Bubbles and Valuation Gaps

November 5th, 2021

39:46

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?

October 29th, 2021

28:50

This week, U.S. economic growth came in lower than expected, some high-profile companies posted disappointing earnings results and central banks …

Bitcoin Enters Prime Time

October 22nd, 2021

40:00

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, who’s buying into it …

Bank Stock Phobia

October 15th, 2021

42:14

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 lenders, according to Chris Davis, …

Introducing: Breakthrough

October 12th, 2021

2:57

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 mysterious new illness that …

Freaking Out Over Rates

October 8th, 2021

37:13

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 …

Digesting the Taper

October 1st, 2021

38:05

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? Brian Nick, chief investment …

Money Is Just a Meme

September 24th, 2021

39:04

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, went from non-existent to taking over the world in record fashion. But what is their utility besides being …

Betting on a Value Revival

September 17th, 2021

36:51

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 …

Bitcoin in Macro Land

September 10th, 2021

38:59

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 …

Bad News is Good News, Again?

September 3rd, 2021

33:43

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 …

‘Flight to Crap’

August 27th, 2021

39:28

Extraordinary loose monetary policy has led to what Interactive Brokers Chief Strategist Steve Sosnick calls a “flight to crap,” or investor interest …

Now, the Hard Part

August 20th, 2021

39:21

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 …

Where’s the Volatility?

August 13th, 2021

38:29

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 …

Under-the-Radar Growth

August 6th, 2021

34:20

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” …

A Quant in China’s Casino

July 30th, 2021

35:15

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 chief investment officer …

The Reopening U-Turn

July 23rd, 2021

36:34

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 by the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Holding a Mirror Up to the Stock Market

July 16th, 2021

35:53

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 these work, what type of demand …

Old Growth Is New Again

July 9th, 2021

32:30

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 stock market’s …

Transitory Is in the Eye of Beholder

July 2nd, 2021

36:53

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 …

A Quant’s Take on Meme Stocks

June 25th, 2021

37:38

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 managing money. How does a …

Dot Plot Shocker

June 18th, 2021

33:09

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 …

The Boomer Boom

June 11th, 2021

38:16

What generation will drive the consumer economy and create stock-market winners in the post-pandemic world? Lauren Hill, a portfolio manager and …

A Million Miles From the Memes

June 4th, 2021

44:00

They’re baaaaack! Day-trader cult stocks like AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. are dominating investors’ attention once again, with eye-popping …

Peak Recovery

May 28th, 2021

37:49

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 “peak recovery” …

Crypto Contagion

May 21st, 2021

35:22

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 contagion arrived in the …

Inflation Shocker

May 14th, 2021

40:34

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 discuss what inflation …

Over the Borderline

May 7th, 2021

37:49

Vincent Deluard, director of global macro strategy at the brokerage StoneX Group, discusses how Mexico and Canada may be primed to benefit from the …

Bridgewater on Bubbles

April 30th, 2021

46:02

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 bubbles in financial …

After the Meme-Stock Gold Rush

April 23rd, 2021

43:21

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 traders who were so …

Allocating for the Boom

April 16th, 2021

36:29

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 …

A Quant’s Take on Innovation

April 9th, 2021

43:57

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 of innovative small-cap …

Yields Aren’t Done Yet

March 26th, 2021

32:54

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 Wealth Management, joins the …

Inflation & Valuation Vertigo

March 19th, 2021

37:28

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 different types of price rises …

Introducing: Doubt

March 16th, 2021

2:42

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 …

Markets Vs. Central Banks

March 12th, 2021

32:38

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 single message: Central …

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3

March 8th, 2021

3:11

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 digs into into how we got to …

Grandma Likes Amazon

March 5th, 2021

38:15

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 led the market higher …

Ragin’ Rates

February 26th, 2021

40:14

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 …

Death of Austerity

February 19th, 2021

39:20

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 global financial crisis. He …

Getting Paid to Own Stocks

February 12th, 2021

35:04

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 pandemic and keep the payments …

Macro Man Vs. YOLO Boy

February 5th, 2021

39:34

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.

Crise, a former …

'Stupid Prices'

January 29th, 2021

34:37

The drama surrounding GameStop Corp. and other high-flying stocks targeted by social media-influenced traders has triggered a debate about behavior …

Tesla and AOL

January 22nd, 2021

34:53

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 estimate of 3,850 for the …

Rebooting the China Relationship

January 15th, 2021

36:20

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 …

Perpetual Motion Stocks

January 8th, 2021

40:41

Another week, another record high for stocks – even in the midst of political unrest. Vincent Deluard, director of global macro strategy at StoneX …

New Year… New Markets?

January 1st, 2021

39:10

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 Reserve, a boom in retail …

'Tis the Season to … Lever Up?

December 25th, 2020

32:44

Anastasia Amoroso, head of thematic strategy at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, discuss emerging investing themes, including deploying leverage in credit-market investments. She also discusses the outlook for green energy, …

Value in a Frothy Market

December 18th, 2020

31:35

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 frothy market in the …

The Great Debate of 2021

December 11th, 2020

39:39

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 …

The World Outside Tech Stocks

December 4th, 2020

27:23

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 Wealth Management, …

Where Money Goes to Die

November 27th, 2020

36:00

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% this year and …

The New 60/40: 100/0?

November 20th, 2020

34:18

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 …

Heavy Rotation

November 13th, 2020

29:23

Promising results in a coronavirus vaccine test triggered a wild rotation in the stock market this week. Lauren Goodwin, economist and strategist at …

A Top 1% Manager’s Strategy

November 6th, 2020

33:19

Many investors, like most Americans, have been fixated on the political drama of this year’s presidential election. But when it comes to picking …

The Great Dollar Slowdown

October 30th, 2020

36:57

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 …

Dollar Doldrums

October 23rd, 2020

41:38

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 …

Army of Day Traders

October 16th, 2020

39:51

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 affect markets now that …

Forecast: A 'Tech-Stock Tsunami'

October 9th, 2020

32:15

An antitrust report by Democratic staffers for the House of Representatives this week sent chills down the spine of investors holding shares of the …

SPAC Attack

October 2nd, 2020

38:40

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 …

Buffett’s 'Elephant Gun'

September 25th, 2020

37:18

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 at a big acquisition or …

The Options Explosion

September 18th, 2020

34:46

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 International Group, joins …

Another Tech Wreck

September 11th, 2020

34:37

The selloff in high-flying technology stocks continued this week after a breathtaking rally over the previous five months. Is the bubbling bursting, …

Ugh! Not Politics Again!

September 4th, 2020

29:01

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 …

Volatility From Voting

August 28th, 2020

31:00

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 …

A Market Wearing 'Rose-Colored Glasses'

August 21st, 2020

32:02

Campbell Harvey, finance professor at Duke University and a senior adviser at Research Affiliates, is well known for his research on the yield curve …

The MMT Experiment is Underway

August 14th, 2020

30:59

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 …

Reflections of a Goldman Sachs Manager

August 7th, 2020

33:40

At the benchmark level, equity levels by many measures look stretched. But Katie Koch, co-head of fundamental equity at Goldman Sachs Asset …

The Bull Case for Gold

July 31st, 2020

35:55

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 …

Rob Arnott on Bubbles

July 24th, 2020

37:15

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 investors.

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Introducing: Blood River, A New Podcast From Bloomberg

July 20th, 2020

3:43

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 no one had been …

A View of Markets From Overseas

July 17th, 2020

37:07

Based in Sydney, Australia, David Adams, the chief investment officer at Reminiscent Capital, picked up on funding market stress early on. That …

The Melt-Up After the Meltdown

July 10th, 2020

31:50

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 and why it’s worrying.

A Bummer of a Summer for Stocks?

July 3rd, 2020

36:35

The U.S. stock market headed into the Fourth of July holiday with a full head of steam after the best quarterly advance since 1998. Yet risks lie …

Views of a Top Growth Manager

June 26th, 2020

32:59

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, co-head of the …

Pin the Tail Risk on the Quant

June 19th, 2020

34:21

This year’s volatility in markets has highlighted how investors can protect their portfolios with tail-risk hedging strategies. Meb Faber, co-founder …

Bear-Market Flashback

June 12th, 2020

34:12

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 strategist Ben Emons and …

Get Me Out!

June 5th, 2020

33:05

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 benefit from the next …

‘Scared For the Market’

May 29th, 2020

36:14

Investors across Wall Street are beginning to wonder if the risk rebound has further room to run. Fed policy is extremely stimulative, economies are …

It’s Already 2021 in the Market

May 22nd, 2020

38:20

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 is already looking …

An Historic Crash

May 15th, 2020

44:14

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 …

Death of the Buyback?

May 8th, 2020

34:25

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 …

Treasury’s $1.9 Trillion Quarter

May 1st, 2020

35:47

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 macro strategist Zachary …

Sell the Reopen News?

April 24th, 2020

31:46

As several states take tentative steps to reopen their economies following lockdowns to slow the spread of Covid-19, the big question for investors …

Harvesting 'Crisis Alpha’

April 17th, 2020

26:12

They say every crisis is also an opportunity, and some trend-following investment strategies are proving that true by reaping strong returns amid the …

Misbehaving in a Pandemic

April 10th, 2020

32:54

The Covid-19 virus is messing with all our heads, and that can cause investors to make some classic mistakes. Meanwhile, government stimulus efforts …

Bankers on the Frontlines

April 3rd, 2020

30:39

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 without much hard …

Quick to Fall, Quick to Rise

March 27th, 2020

28:04

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 rally last? Dan Chung, …

Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus

March 25th, 2020

0:56

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 will explain the …

The Sell-Everything Strategy

March 20th, 2020

28:06

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, head of credit …

Buy The Dip Is Dead

March 13th, 2020

27:46

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 …

Waiting for the Panic

March 6th, 2020

27:59

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 …

Can Fed Fight the Virus?

February 28th, 2020

36:19

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. Kathy Jones, chief …

Hedging an Epidemic

February 21st, 2020

36:00

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 confidence. Simeon Hyman, …

Tales of a Top 1% Fund Manager

February 14th, 2020

30:07

With passive and factor investing dominating the strategies of more and more investors, one would be forgiven for thinking that traditional …

UBS’s China Bull

February 7th, 2020

27:03

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 conviction of Barry Gill, head …

Velocity of Risk Goes Viral

January 31st, 2020

31:03

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 “velocity of risk” is much …

A Market Immune From Illness

January 24th, 2020

35:44

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 …

Learning to Love Lousy Stocks

January 17th, 2020

32:43

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, …

Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs

January 13th, 2020

1:30

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. 

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Fundamentals in the Fog of War

January 10th, 2020

32:01

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 to be a de-escalation …

Your 2020 Guide

January 3rd, 2020

23:18

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 next few months? What …

Remembering 2019

December 27th, 2019

21:50

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. stocks notched one of …

OK Boomer, Time to Rebalance

December 20th, 2019

36:38

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, …

Economic Worries Begin to Fade

December 13th, 2019

30:24

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 …

The Right Way to Be Wrong

December 6th, 2019

30:28

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 …

Make Money, Save the Planet

November 29th, 2019

29:53

Climate change is arguably the biggest problem facing mankind in the 21st century, and any serious effort to slow it will require further massive …

Populism: As Popular as Ever

November 22nd, 2019

30:51

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 the mix: the …

A Downer in December?

November 15th, 2019

32:46

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 …

Panic in the Bond Disco

November 8th, 2019

31:57

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. Is this a turning point …

How U.S. Yields Could Go Negative

November 1st, 2019

32:19

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 …

Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2

October 29th, 2019

1:25

Bloomberg's Travel Genius podcast is back! After clocking another hundred-thousand miles in the sky, hosts Nikki Ekstein and Mark Ellwood have a …

Chile’s Popular Unrest Is a Lesson for the World

October 25th, 2019

30:33

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 …

World's Hottest Market

October 18th, 2019

29:31

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 nation in the Caribbean …

Don’t Call It QE

October 11th, 2019

32:48

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, known as quantitative …

Impeachment and Fat Tails

October 4th, 2019

34:00

Officials from China are heading to Washington for trade talks next week, just as President Donald Trump battles the House of Representatives over …

Introducing Stephanomics Season 2

October 1st, 2019

2:24

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 California grappling with …

Much Ado About Impeachment

September 27th, 2019

34:41

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 news this week, …

A Week of Curve Balls

September 20th, 2019

32:19

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 rates for a second …

Billionaire Ken Fisher Boxes With Wall Street

September 13th, 2019

30:09

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 …

Business Goes To Chemistry Class

September 6th, 2019

23:46

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 “What Goes Up,” the team …

The Data Detective

August 30th, 2019

28:28

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 …

Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs

August 29th, 2019

2:43

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 been described as a …

The China Syndrome

August 23rd, 2019

30:58

Near record-low, and even negative, interest rates have captivated investors around the world. But are they here to stay? Chad Morganlander and Kevin …

Hong Kong. Yield Curve. Oh My.

August 16th, 2019

29:18

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 the stock market. It …

Currency Wars

August 9th, 2019

30:44

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 …

What If the ‘Powell Put’ Fails?

August 2nd, 2019

30:55

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 …

Record Stocks Amid Recession Signals

July 26th, 2019

27:44

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 Shawn Snyder, head of …

Stocks Stare Down a 'Low Bar'

July 19th, 2019

28:03

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 …

TINA's Back in Town?

July 12th, 2019

34:17

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 …

One Market That Volatility Forgot

July 5th, 2019

32:08

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 …

Ain’t Nothin’ But a G-20 Thang

June 28th, 2019

28:48

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 that expectations are …

Jerome Powell’s Necktie Is Too Tight

June 21st, 2019

29:27

Simultaneous pressure from markets and President Donald Trump to lower interest rates makes Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell look like a guy …

The Fine Art of Short-Selling

June 14th, 2019

30:15

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 deep into proxy …

Embracing 'Maverick Risk'

June 7th, 2019

31:51

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 …

Border Bombshell

May 31st, 2019

34:20

Investors hadn’t quite finished wrapping their heads around what the escalating trade tensions with China would mean for their portfolios when …

It’s a Tech War Now

May 24th, 2019

29:11

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 …

The Art of (Trade) War

May 17th, 2019

27:40

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 strategist at Medley Global …

Skunk at the Garden Party

May 10th, 2019

29:11

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 40 years of …

Introducing: Business of Bees

May 8th, 2019

2:21

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 …

The 'Four Horsemen' of Recession

May 3rd, 2019

29:24

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 discusses his dissertation …

Stocks Surge, Bears Balk

April 26th, 2019

26:17

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. Bloomberg executive editor …

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg

April 16th, 2019

1:44

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 to bonds to currencies …

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Make money

  • Tip and transfer funds directly to podcastsers
  • Earn money for qualified plays in the RadioPublic apps with Paid Listens