What Goes Up
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Velocity of Risk Goes Viral
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paranoia about the coronavirus is spreading rapidly around the world, and the reaction in financial markets has been swift. Principal Global Investors...
A Market Immune From Illness
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Fundamentals in the Fog of War
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
Your 2020 Guide
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New year, new predictions. With 2020 off to the races, projections from strategists across Wall Street are now set in stone. Will market leadership ch...
Remembering 2019
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 yea...
OK Boomer, Time to Rebalance
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
Economic Worries Begin to Fade
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Make Money, Save the Planet
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is arguably the biggest problem facing mankind in the 21st century, and any serious effort to slow it will require further massive in...
Populism: As Popular as Ever
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As 2020 approaches, the financial industry is busy issuing global outlooks for the new year. Recession? Trade deal? Higher or lower bond yields? Wilmi...
A Downer in December?
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How U.S. Yields Could Go Negative
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Go...
Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg's Travel Genius podcast is back! After clocking another hundred-thousand miles in the sky, hosts Nikki Ekstein and Mark Ellwood have a whole...
Chile’s Popular Unrest Is a Lesson for the World
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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” t...
Don’t Call It QE
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Impeachment and Fat Tails
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Officials from China are heading to Washington for trade talks next week, just as President Donald Trump battles the House of Representatives over imp...
Introducing Stephanomics Season 2
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, returns to bring you another season of on-the-ground insight into the forces driving global growth an...
Much Ado About Impeachment
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A Week of Curve Balls
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 su...
Billionaire Ken Fisher Boxes With Wall Street
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 investors...
Business Goes To Chemistry Class
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of the Periodic Table of Elements, what comes to mind? Maybe chemistry class, or flashbacks to memorizing combinations of letters and n...
The Data Detective
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 hav...
The China Syndrome
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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.
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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-ye...
Currency Wars
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Re...
What If the ‘Powell Put’ Fails?
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Record Stocks Amid Recession Signals
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Stocks Stare Down a 'Low Bar'
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 quarterl...
TINA's Back in Town?
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Ain’t Nothin’ But a G-20 Thang
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Jerome Powell’s Necktie Is Too Tight
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Simultaneous pressure from markets and President Donald Trump to lower interest rates makes Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell look like a guy who...
The Fine Art of Short-Selling
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 jo...
Embracing 'Maverick Risk'
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Affil...
Border Bombshell
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Investors hadn’t quite finished wrapping their heads around what the escalating trade tensions with China would mean for their portfolios when Presi...
It’s a Tech War Now
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 technolo...
The Art of (Trade) War
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Skunk at the Garden Party
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Introducing: Business of Bees
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 pollin...
The 'Four Horsemen' of Recession
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Campbell Harvey, finance professor at Duke University and a senior adviser at Research Affiliates, joins Sarah Ponczek and Mike Regan in this week’s...
Stocks Surge, Bears Balk
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 globa...