🇺🇸 He's both praising and kinda insulting Cook (and management consultants, of course)

Cook, who's "an amazing manager" also called to “kiss my ass”...

As Ed Miliband seeks to 'double down' on the UK energy transition to clean power, this is a reminder of why that matters to consumers:

The highest proportion of fossil fuels in the energy mix leads to the highest prices according to Fidelity international

www.ft.com/content/6b4e...

🖥️ Tim Cook to step aside as Apple chief executive in September

📱Head of hardware John Ternus to take over as CEO while Cook will become iPhone maker’s chair

FT www.ft.com/content/5b5a...

I do wonder whether such "competitions" are used to gather data on potential Reform voters

🇬🇧 Reform said they would pay my energy bills. They haven’t

"Residents of winning street in Nigel Farage’s fuel giveaway stunt complain they have missed out on prize"

Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Sacré bleu 😭

May I also suggest checking out some Return to Forever, with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke

🇺🇸 Trump convenes Iran situation room meeting amid renewed Hormuz crisis

A senior US official said that if there is no breakthrough soon, the war could resume in the coming days

Axios www.axios.com/2026/04/18/i...

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Oil fell 9%. Stocks hit a record. The Strait of Hormuz is open again… or is it?

While markets celebrated, Iran’s parliament speaker said "with the continuation of the blockade, the Strait will not remain open". Trump confirmed the blockade stays

I'm confused 🤔

FT www.ft.com/content/cdb6...

🎬 Hegseth copied Tarantino who copied “Chiba the Bodyguard”

Tarantino 'borrowed' the source material of the "Pulp Fiction" monologue that Hegseth delivered at a Pentagon prayer service

Tarantino's words essentially came from “The Bodyguard”, a 1973 Sonny Chiba karate flick 🥋

Yes, Bayern did look very slick last night

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Donald Trump warns he could rip up trade deal with UK

Threat comes as tensions rise between Washington and London over Iran war

FT www.ft.com/content/2cbe...

PSG vs Atletico in the final

Posted earlier today:
FYI, here’s the link to my column on who lost the UK bond market—the what, why, and so what... and also what to do about it:
www.ft.com/content/4b25...
#economy #markets #bonds #uk @financialtimes.com

🇺🇸 First Orbán lost. Now Europe’s right is questioning the Maga playbook

AfD figures say the Trump-Vance embrace “hung like millstones” around Orbán’s neck

In the UK, Farage, Frost and Badenoch have also all pulled back from a president they once celebrated

FT www.ft.com/content/1933...

🇭🇺 Markets are unwinding 16 years of political risk in the wake of Orbán’s defeat

Hungarian stocks rallied to a record high while the forint hit a four-year high against the euro

Investors are betting Tisza’s landslide win will unlock €19bn in frozen EU funds

The Liz Truss ‘moron premium’ has not gone away. UK yields are more volatile and structurally higher than peers, and this is a really big deal

as.ft.com/r/b78ddaf5-7... Who lost the UK bond market?

Who lost the UK bond market? @elerianm.bsky.social here on why the volatility of gilts is a big problem for the country and must be tackled. Graph by @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4b25...

🇭🇺 Polymarket gives Péter Magyar a 97% chance of becoming Hungary’s next PM

Polls suggest Tisza is on course to win, potentially ending Orbán’s 16-year grip on power

Turnout hit a post-Communist record of nearly 78%

FT www.ft.com/content/d02a...

Hats off to the top commenter on this one 👇

Molotov cocktail thrown at home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman

FT → www.ft.com/content/46ec...

🇺🇸 "Very stable genius"

🇺🇸 As has become somewhat customary, US futures soared on ceasefire hopes

Pakistan asked Trump to extend his Iran deadline by two weeks. That was enough. S&P 500 futures erased a 1.2% drop while oil fell on the news

FT www.ft.com/content/e49f...

We have. Traders react to every whiff of a hint of a rumour of a ceasefire

🇺🇸 358,023 vehicles. Up 6% on last year. Still not enough

Tesla missed analysts' Q1 forecasts of 365,000. Europe recovered on cheaper models and discounts, but the US remains under pressure after EV tax credit cuts

FT www.ft.com/content/c83d...

🇺🇸 Trump spoke. Markets listened. Then sold off

S&P 500 futures fell as the president promised to hit Iran extremely hard for weeks to come, dashing hopes for a quick end to the conflict. Brent crude, meanwhile, turned higher

FT www.ft.com/content/7181...

Chart that tells a story by @raydouglas.bsky.social
from a timely piece by William Sandlund on Chinese government bonds holding their value during the conflict
www.ft.com/content/7221...

🛢️ Record-breaking oil

Brent crude hit $118 a barrel on Tuesday, on course for its biggest monthly gain in data going back to 1988

Who would've predicted this...

FT www.ft.com/content/b2c8...

🇺🇸 That would be something, if true...

WSJ www.wsj.com/world/middle...

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack

Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment on behalf of US defence secretary 🪖

FT as.ft.com/r/8b50fa45-8...

🎤 Great piece (and perhaps a cautionary tale) by @rachel-rees.bsky.social about a tiny karaoke company, a controversial trader and markets’ enthusiasm for all things AI

FT www.ft.com/content/bb8d...