The curiously code-named “RR stock” has been lurching across trading screens from São Paulo to Singapore like a drunken aristocrat at last call, generating the sort of global buzz usually reserved for royal weddings or minor nuclear incidents. At first glance it appears to be nothing more than the ticker for Rolls-Royce Holdings—yes, the same…
FPL Price Changes: The Only Global Market Where a Hamstring Twitch Can Crash the Bolivian Boliviano Dave’s Locker — International Desk Geneva, Tuesday, 02:14 a.m. CET — While the Swiss haggle over cocoa futures and Singaporean quants nurse their ulcers over crypto spreads, a quieter, more ruthless market is open 24/7 and speaks every language:…
**The Man Who Bought the World (and Other Tuesday Afternoons)** Ramón Juárez del Castillo, the man who allegedly single-handedly tanked three currencies, saved a fourth, and somehow managed to look bored while doing it, has become the international financial community’s favorite cautionary tale. The 47-year-old former philosophy professor turned cryptocurrency savant sits in a Madrid…
World Holds Breath as Wayne Matthews Tweaks Hamstring, Diplomatic Calendars Rearranged By Our Correspondent in a Café Where the Wi-Fi is Suspiciously Russian Geneva—In the grand amphitheater of global catastrophe, where nuclear codes are passed around like party favors and glaciers file for divorce daily, humanity finally located its true pressure point: Wayne Matthews’ left…
Wayne Matthews III Has Entered the Chat, and the Planet May Never Be the Same By Our Correspondent Somewhere Between a NATO Briefing and a Bangkok Street Stall When a 28-year-old from suburban Atlanta decides to turn his family’s modest industrial-chemicals firm into a planetary-scale meme, the rest of us are morally obliged to watch—like…
The Granite State’s Global Shadow: Why a Tiny Corner of New England Still Makes the World Sweat DATELINE: Somewhere over the Atlantic—Half a million souls live in New Hampshire, a territory so small that if it were a country it would rank 174th by population, wedged somewhere between Malta and the Maldives. Yet every four…
Michigan’s Schedule Is the New Geopolitical Crystal Ball By Dave’s Locker International Desk In a world where central banks blink and markets convulse, the one document that now moves global capital faster than a Russian troll farm is the humble Michigan Wolverines football schedule. Yes, the same scrap of paper your cousin in Kalamazoo tapes…
Sam Houston vs. Texas: When an Empire’s Favorite Son Tries to Secede from the Secessionists By Diego “Still Paying Rent in Six Currencies” Morales, International Affairs Desk, Dave’s Locker PARIS—Over croissants that cost more than a day’s wage in Caracas, French diplomats were overheard asking one another last week: “Did Texas just pick a fight…
Rangers Score Today, Earth Still Spinning: A Dispatch From The Front Lines of Futility NEW YORK—Another day, another 3-2 victory for the New York Rangers, and somewhere a hedge-fund manager in Geneva just made or lost the GDP of Moldova on exactly how many seconds elapsed between the second and third goals. The puck crossed…
SMR Stock: When the World Decides Nuclear is Safer than Twitter By the time European traders were sipping their first espressos on Tuesday, shares in NuScale Power—the American poster-child for Small Modular Reactors—had already gapped up six percent on the Tokyo bourse. Somewhere in London, a hedge-fund quant spilled his flat white, because the correlation…
QUBT Stock: When Quantum Physics Meets Quarterly Earnings, the Universe Shrugs By the time you finish this sentence, a superposition of QUBT—Quantum Computing Inc.—will have both collapsed into a profit and remained stubbornly loss-making somewhere in Delaware. That, dear reader, is the only certainty left in a world where a company trading under the ticker…
**NASDAQ Futures: Where the World’s Money Goes to Dream and Die** The sun never sets on the NASDAQ futures market—mostly because it’s traded electronically in Chicago, Tokyo, London, and pretty much anywhere insomniacs with Bloomberg terminals gather to worship at the altar of American tech optimism. While you’re sleeping, somewhere in Singapore a trader is…
