Opening Bell: 7.13.20
Alien invasions; Main Street mess; chief disappointment officers; Ghosn’s saviors unsaved; and more!
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Opening Bell: 7.10.20
Icahn sticks it to Buffett; Elon sticks it to everyone; Steve Cohen sticks it to other Mets bidders; and more!
Opening Bell: 7.9.20
Capital-raising easier than ever, but no one wants the Fed’s Main Street money; and more!
Opening Bell: 7.8.20
Brooks Brothers bankruptcy; Buffett’s billions; Odey’s awful annus; Facebook fascism; and more!
Opening Bell: 7.7.20
A bit bumpy; Paul Singer’s hungry; successful business to work with unsuccessful one; John Varley forgets sometimes; and more!
Opening Bell: 7.6.20
Is wearing a mask worth 5% of GDP to you?; the other German banking disaster; Ray Dalio’s thinking about UBI; and more!
Opening Bell: 7.2.20
Will no one take the Fed’s money? Will no one on Wall Street hire Black people? Will no one stand with Valeant? Will no one buy a place in Manhattan? And more??!!?!
Opening Bell: 7.1.20
PPP lives?; NAFTA dies; hedge funds, too; no such thing as a free facemask; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.30.20
Bailouts, past and present; dividends good and bad; selling someone else’s shares; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.29.20
Cash cliffs; credit confusion; coronavirus car sales; Cannes cancelled (for us); and more!
Opening Bell: 6.26.20
Jay Clayton’s (bad) idea; hedge funds make all the money Wirecard doesn’t have; no $20 sheet cake for you; and more!
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Opening Bell: 6.24.20
Cases rise, stocks drop; Dell’s worthless; whistleblower worries; grim bonuses; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.23.20
A fight at Neiman Marcus; Credit Suisse, SoftBank slip up again; Izzy Englander on the prowl; Mike Novogratz still sees $20K bitcoin; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.22.20
Second wave; second phase; new stress test section; “TechFin;” private equity sours on Trump; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.19.20
Juneteenth; Hertz goes cap-in-hand; that $2 billion doesn’t exist; D.J. D-Sol’s not-so-star turn; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.18.20
The Robinhood bubble; Jay Clayton has questions about worthless stock; hoarding quarters; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.17.20
Buying stocks; buying time; not buying CLOs; not paying bills; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.16.20
Drowning in cash (especially Warren Buffett); Goldman offering toasters; “DO I HAVE UR ATTENTION NOW????” and more!
Opening Bell: 6.15.20
The bigotry of Deutsche Bank expectations; banks have lost enough on shale drillers; Apollo making sure Serta Simmons doesn’t sleep easy; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.12.20
The roller coaster rolls on; Ackman, Loeb raising money; M&A and IPOs; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.11.20
Stocks falls with unemployment claims; New York could literally pave its streets with gold; “Elon making noise;” and more!
Opening Bell: 6.10.20
The worst recession will also be the shortest; another retail deal dies; New York to be extra fragrant this summer; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.9.20
Stocks surge; millennials > Druckenmiller; Macy’s survives; Paul Singer counsels patience; and more!
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Opening Bell: 6.8.20
Wall Street rises; New York reopens; airlines retrench; eroded stomach lining; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.5.20
Unemployment falls; bankruptcies rise; Slack ain’t Zoom; Musk v. Bezos; Ken Griffin buys a painting; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.4.20
More flexibility; moral hazards; SoftBank finds money for minority-owned businesses; Brady Dougan’s (Bob Diamond-backed) dreams; someone else’s (machete-based) dreams; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.3.20
Fed progam that hasn’t launched already a smashing success; PPP still less so; CQS even less so still; killer hand sanitzer; and more!
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Opening Bell: 6.2.20
A lost decade, but not for Bill Ackman; Madoff trustee gets his frequent flyer miles ready; “it’s not that the market is totally heartless;” a drunken hike; and more!
Opening Bell: 6.1.20
A tale of two PPPs; airline ETF booms and busts simultaneously; impossible, incredible; masks on before Metrocard swipes; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.29.20
White House won't be issuing bad news in an election year; people are still drinking coffee; Jay Powell gives Carl Icahn a parting gift; there’s no such thing as a “proprietary holographic nano-layer catalyst;” and more!
Opening Bell: 5.28.20
The Dow rises with unemployment claims because people don’t have a choice, apparently; KKR and Blackstone healthcare companies on life support; Silver Lake is expensively trolling Dan Loeb; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.27.20
The equities rally isn’t making people feel better; Millennium’s 50-point reopening plan; Elon Musk hoping to not blow up a few astronauts today; and more!
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Opening Bell: 5.26.20
Stocks jump; unemployment, too; New York commercial real estate not so much; Hertz dies; rats! and more!
Opening Bell: 5.22.20
No PPP extension; no state adds jobs; no, billionaires didn’t get richer; no one’s sick here, we assure you; nothing is as tall as you think; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.21.20
Thirty-eight million unemployed; Chinese (Stock) Exclusion Act; Viking Global inoculated against huge vaccine profits; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.20.20
No one in charge knows what they’re doing; trade Luckin Coffee while you can; hedge funds did not, uh, have a good month; maybe Tesla owners should take a page from Elon’s new friends and burn their cars; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.19.20
Small business Armageddon; does Buffett hate D.J. D-Sol?; Apollo definitely hates Hertz, but not as much as Grimes’ mother hates her new grandson’s dad; the passion of the Son; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.18.20
Jay Powell tells old people we’re screwed; J.C. Penney might be screwed; gold is definitely not screwed, but Elon Musk’s plan to nuke Mars into habitability is (although he’s in line for a consolation prize); and more!
Opening Bell: 5.15.20
Stocks rise; retailers fall; companies lie; activist crowned; senator de-phoned; dining with blow-up dolls; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.14.20
Jobs lost; Falcone saved; CQS focuses on what it’s not so good at; Whitney Tilson makes some bets; SoCal stinks; at more!
Opening Bell: 5.13.20
More money, (for) more (pandemic) problems; more negative oil prices; more power to Paul Singer; more steps for Tesla; more strip club bailouts; and more generally!
Opening Bell: 5.12.20
Fed buying ETFs; Deutsche Bank selling junk; the Mooch gets a little help from his friends; free Elon; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.11.20
No negative rates; no joy for private equity in retail; no PPP money for restaurants that don’t exist; no privacy at work anymore; no ice cream for you; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.8.20
Stocks shrug off 20 million unemployed; Paul Tudor Jones is (sort of) a HODLer; no joy in Flushing; too many Zooms; and more!
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Opening Bell: 5.7.20
Three million more unemployed; a third default for Argentina; X Æ A-12 will have to be a nickname; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.6.20
COVID-19 is basically a Nazi; Ken Griffin the hero; private equity needs better lobbyists; can we leave Tom Cruise in space; and more!
Opening Bell 5.5.20
Stocks and oil rise; stock exchanges do something right; best ideas don’t mean best performance; when is Cinco de Mayo; and more!
Opening Bell: 5.4.20
The chino-virus strikes; Fed follies; the Ackmanaissance accelerates; sad trombones for Michael Cohen; and more!
