What Goes Up

Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this limited series, Odd Lots explains some of the thorniest issues facing the US economy through the medium of … chicken. Chicken occupies a uni...

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

23 Jan 2024

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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 Goe...

Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

15 Dec 2023

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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 ...

Introducing: Elon, Inc.

14 Nov 2023

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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

06 Oct 2023

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

Why China’s Real Estate Crisis Is Different

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The troubles facing highly indebted property developers in China have dominated conversations about the Asian nation’s economy and markets this yea...

Is the Fed Done Raising Rates? Ellen Zentner Thinks So

22 Sep 2023

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When it comes to the US Federal Reserve’s campaign to crush inflation by raising interest rates, Morgan Stanley Chief US Economist Ellen Zentner say...

Human Trafficking in the Crypto Rabbit Hole

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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?

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From artificial intelligence to electric vehicles and travel stocks, some of the previously hot equity-market themes have borne the brunt of the selli...

How to Avoid Getting Burned by the AI Hype

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Matt Levine on Why 'Everything Is Securities Fraud'

25 Aug 2023

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

BlackRock Shakes Up the Bitcoin ETF Race

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

The `Odd Lots' Crossover Episode

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 fo...

What You Need to Know About Gold

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Vanguard's Hard Pass on a `Soft Landing'

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A rallying stock market and better-than-expected second-quarter economic growth are just the latest developments pointing Wall Street skeptics to th...

When Will Commercial Real Estate Market Hit Bottom?

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

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

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

The World's Food Supply Needs to Change

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

What If There Was a Recession and No One Noticed?

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The disconnect between a roaring stock market and stubborn recession predictions has left many investors scratching their heads. The equity strategis...

How Covid Rewired Markets and the Economy

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

AI's 'Big Bang' Moment

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Enthusiasm for artificial intelligence has powered a breakneck rally in US equities this year, far overshadowing the US Federal Reserve’s campaign t...

Seema Shah Makes the Case for a Short-Lived Recession

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ban...

Betting (on) the Farm

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ac...

With Fed Pause Likely, Here Are Ideas for Your Cash

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is an Opportunity

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Fed Won't Ride to the Rescue

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 pro...

The Fed's Not Done Breaking Things

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Morgan Stanley Braces for a Soft Landing

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Wha...

Man Group's Stock Skepticism

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

A Quant Takes on Microcaps

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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’...

Flashbacks to 2008

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Huge Significance of Small Banks

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Torsten Slok had been firmly in the “no landing” camp of economists. More positive than a “soft landing,” its adherents say the Federal Rese...

Jeremy Grantham's Market Meat-Grinder

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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. A...

A Soft Landing Is Getting Harder

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Princeton University’s Alan Blinder is one of the most prominent economists to have expressed optimism that the Federal Reserve can engineer a so-ca...

BlackRock on 'Fixing' the 40 in 60/40

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 y...

Don’t Feel Bullied by the Stock Rally

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Enhancem...

How Wall Street Is Using AI to Build ETFs

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm, spurring all manner of experiments and examination as to what extent the artificial-intelligence model can su...

(Mis)interpreting the Fed

03 Feb 2023

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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 mi...

AlphaSimplex on Embracing the 'Uncomfortable'

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Fading the New Year's Bounce

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Savita Subramanian's Earnings-Season Reality Check

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ameri...

Fidelity Sees a Return to Bear-Market Lows

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

SBF's Love of Risk

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Before his FTX cryptocurrency empire collapsed, many of Sam Bankman-Fried’s public statements indicated that he made decisions “as though he had...

JPMorgan's Obituary for Globalization

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Calendar Won't Cure the Chaos

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Chaudh...

5% Inflation for a Decade?

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Expectations that inflation will normalize to near 2% in the near term will “end in tears,” according to Vincent Deluard, the director of global m...

FTX 'Horror Stories' in the Bahamas

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 causi...

Life in Crypto After FTX

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ho...

FTX Shows Crypto Still the ‘Wild West’

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Institutions' Slow-Motion Crypto Embrace

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cryptocurrency news this year has been filled with stories about how institutional investors are embracing digital assets. So if more big players are ...

The Worst Way to Fix Inflation

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Fed Is Playing a ‘Dangerous Game’

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Paul Volcker, Market Psychologist

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Another hot inflation reading this week underscores the importance of the US Federal Reserve’s campaign to tame decades-high increases in consumer p...

Flash Boys in the Crypto Cloud

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Liz Truss's Ronald Reagan Moment

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

A Quant's Take on Inflation

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 be...

A 'Cheat Code' for the Bond Market

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Long Runway for Bond Shorts

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

A Farmer's Take on the Economy

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Siegel on Inflation, the Fed and Meme Stocks

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Siegel, a longtime professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and author of “Stocks for the Long Run,” joine...

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

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By mimicking strategies common among some quantitative hedge-fund firms, the iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF has surged 21% so far this year—b...

Beware an 'Inflation Head Fake'

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Fighting Inflation With ETFs

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Investors are turning to some thematic exchange-traded funds to hedge against inflation and take advantage of the renewed performance of value stocks ...

Reading the Fed Tea Leaves

29 Jul 2022

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

Citi Sizes Up the Markets

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

How Amateurs Lost Billions on Options

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During the day-trading craze that erupted amid the Covid-19 pandemic’s lockdowns, market professionals repeatedly warned a new flock of Reddit-readi...

Cash Is Not Trash

01 Jul 2022

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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 Manage...

Bracing for a Recession

24 Jun 2022

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

Revenge of the Hedge Funds

17 Jun 2022

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

Stock Market Gets Ironic

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

What This Money Manager Learned Traveling in Covid-Zero China

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wenting Shen, an analyst and portfolio manager at Harding Loevener, is traveling through China while navigating the country’...

`I Need a Solid Panic’

27 May 2022

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Victoria Greene, founding partner and chief investment officer at Texas-based G Squared Private Wealth, joined the latest episode of “What ...

One Word That Triggers Putin

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Is Beyoncé Recession-Proof?

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Case for a Soft Landing

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s effort to tame inflation with aggressive interest-rate hikes has some investors worried that a recession is inevitabl...

Irrational Exuberance Is Dying (Again)

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously used the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the euphoric investor sentimen...

Better Days Ahead?

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Investors have a lot to worry about: Russia’s war on Ukraine, inflation, Covid-19 and China’s lockdowns reigniting supply-chain woes&mdash...

Clear as Mud

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Globalization’s Public Defender

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss how Russia’s...

Sunburn and Frost Bite

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

David Bianco, chief investment officer of the Americas for fund manager DWS Group, joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss his cautious near-...

The Great Wormhole Robbery

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Olsen, president and chief investment officer of Jump Trading Group, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss his firm’s inve...

Fed Hawks Take Flight

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Will OPEC Ride to the Rescue?

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Markets in Wartime

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Learning to Love Crypto Volatility

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

After the K-Shaped Recovery

18 Feb 2022

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

Do Valuations Matter?

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Growing Crypto Ecosystem

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

The Big Risk for Risk Parity

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

When the Fever Breaks

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Portfol...

Dissecting the Tech Wreck

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Time to Sell Weakness?

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Markets in Hindsight

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bloomberg’s managing editor for cryptocurrency coverage, Stacy-Marie Ishmael, joined this week’s “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss the wild ye...

Feeling ‘22

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 mar...

Crypto Goes to Congress

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...