The Curious Case of Jonah Tong: A Man Who Accidentally Became the Planet’s Refrigerator Lightbulb By the International Desk Somewhere between the 14th floor of a WeWork in Singapore and a noodle stall in Taipei’s underground mall, Jonah Tong became the most discussed non-entity in global affairs. No one elected him, no one hired him,…
CrowdStrike’s Feathered Fortune: How One Falcon Took a Nosedive and Gave the World a Collective Migraine by Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Atlantic In the pantheon of things that can bring global commerce to a stuttering halt, you’d expect nuclear brinkmanship, a rogue asteroid, or at least a really vindictive Bond…
CrowdStrike’s CRWD: The Cybersecurity Stock That Knows Your Passwords and Your Portfolio Davos, Switzerland – While the global elite sipped overpriced coffee and congratulated themselves on “building back better,” CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) quietly closed another quarter of 30 % year-over-year revenue growth, proving that the only thing expanding faster than the Swiss money supply…
Chequers Prime Minister: A Weekend in the English Countryside That Shook the World By Dave’s International Affairs Desk If you ever wondered where the fate of 67 million Britons—and, by extension, the global financial system—gets decided on a rainy Friday afternoon, the answer is a 16th-century manor house whose greatest architectural triumph is its ability…
On Threadneedle Street, a modest mahogany-paneled room in London still manages to jolt Tokyo pension funds, Nigerian importers, and Silicon Valley unicorns with the same flick of a decimal point. That room—home to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee—just nudged the base rate up (or down, or sideways; the gesture is almost beside the…
The planet’s lingua franca is no longer English; it is the green and red candlestick. From Lagos cafés where traders watch Meta stock on cracked Android screens to glass towers in Singapore humming with algorithmic prayers, the ticker META has become a planetary rosary bead. Swipe up, recite the revenue, murmur about Reality Labs losses,…
Spy Stock: When the World’s Second-Oldest Profession Meets Its Youngest Obsession By Our Man in Geneva, still waiting for his expense-account martini to arrive GENEVA – From the mirrored towers of La Défense to the dim sum parlors of Sheung Wan, a quiet consensus has emerged among the people who move real money: the only…
Uber Stock: The Global Hustle Gets a Valuation Somewhere between Jakarta gridlock and a Parisian taxi strike, Uber Technologies Inc. is still pretending to be a tech company rather than the world’s most sophisticated labor arbitrage scheme. Yet Wall Street keeps pricing the stock as if every scooter in Bogotá will someday sprout wings and…
From São Paulo to Seoul, the phrase “Lyft stock” is muttered with the same reverence once reserved for tulip bulbs, South Sea shares, and any other botanical or nautical folly that promised to turn cab rides into castles. The ticker LYFT—listed in New York but traded in every sleepless brokerage from Dubai to Dublin—has become…
Alibaba’s ticker—BABA—has spent the last few years doing the financial equivalent of a trust-fall exercise on a glacier: everyone knows the drop is coming, yet the crowd still gasps when the ice finally cracks. From Wall Street to Wangfujing, from Zürich pension funds to Jakarta ride-hailing drivers who’ve turned their scooters into mini trading desks,…
NVIDIA: The Unofficial Reserve Currency of Planet Earth By Our Correspondent in Low-Earth Orbit (because the rent is cheaper up here) TOKYO—There’s a moment every Tokyo salaryman recognizes: the 7:12 a.m. Yamanote Line lurches forward, and suddenly every smartphone screen turns the same shade of radioactive green—NVIDIA’s intraday chart. Commuters who can’t pronounce “Jensen Huang”…
Betfair: The Global Casino Where Nations Come to Whisper Odds By our resident correspondent, still recovering from last night’s in-play volatility LONDON – Somewhere between the forex desks of Singapore and the cigarette-scented betting shops of Manchester, humanity decided that the future wasn’t uncertain enough. Enter Betfair, the London-born exchange that turned “I bet you”…
