Notes from the FT Global Bond Summit
6/16/202620 min
Each year the FT Global Bond Summit brings traders, bankers, central bankers and politicians to London to discuss the state and future of debt. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong talks with Katie Martin about her visit to the summit and what she learned. Also they go short bans on social media and long tie games, also known as “draws”.
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First 90 secondsRobert Armstrong· Host0:00
[gentle music] Pushkin. The US and Iran have reached a deal to extend their ceasefire and open the Strait of Hormuz. One might expect, given this, that inflation expectations would fall and bond yields would collapse, and we'd all return to the land of milk and cheap money. Nope. This is Unhedged, the markets and finance podcast from the Financial Times and Pushkin. I am Rob Armstrong, reporting from a sunny and joyful New York City. And I am joined by my colleague, Katie Martin, who is currently in a janitor's closet in a fancy hotel in London somewhere. Katie, how is it in there?
Katie Martin· Host0:52
[laughs] I can just about hear the plinky plonk piano that's playing in the lobby from the little kind of office room that I'm in now. But basically, the great and the good of the bond markets, certainly in Europe, are here at this event. It is the FT Global Bonds Summit. It's the most iconic week in the bond market, according to itself. [laughs] I'm willing to endorse that message. We had the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, here this morning.
Robert Armstrong· Host1:24
Mm.
Katie Martin· Host1:24
Our colleague Chris Giles asked her some tricky questions, and she dealt with them pretty well, I've gotta say. Um,