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The RDX Sports Podcast with Simon HeadUFC London recap: Sean Brady DOMINATES at The O2Philadelphia's finest welterweight Sean Brady delivered a lights-out performance in the main event of UFC London as he dominated former UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards en route to a fourth-round submission victory at The O2 Arena.On this episode of the RDX Sports Podcast, editor-in-chief Simon Head unpacks the night's action as he gives his verdict on the night's big stories, including Brady's dominant victory, Carlos Ulberg's win over Jan Blachowicz, and Molly McCann's retirement announcement following her loss to the impressive debutant, Alexia Thainara.2025-03-2552 min
The Digital Publishing PodcastEpisode 11: Laura Brady, Accessibility BusybodyLaura Brady has been advocating for, training in and talking about accessibility in publishing for longer than almost anyone, and we are deeply privileged to have her join us for this fascinating talk on all things accessible publishing. We learn about her journey through various parts of publishing to where she is today, and get her take on recent developments.Laura mentioned the following metadata report: https://apln.ca/accessibility-metadata-best-practices-for-ebooks/CREDITS:Produced and Presented by Simon MellinsTranscript provided by Lumina DatamaticsMusic: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay2025-03-1048 min
Shout at the DevilsDevils Return From 4 Nations Break; Seamus Casey Shines in Simon Nemec's Spot | EPISODE 63In the 63rd episode of 'Shout At The Devils' hosts Daniel Amoia (devils.report) and Justin Brady (devilsfanatics) discuss the 4 Nations tournament and some storylines surrounding the Devils' first couple games following the break.-"Shout At The Devils" is the ultimate podcast for fans of the New Jersey Devils, hosted by two hockey influencers, Justin Brady (@devilsfanatics) and Daniel Amoia (@devils.report). With their extensive knowledge of the team and their passion for the sport, Justin and Daniel provide insightful analysis, in-depth commentary, and engaging discussions on all things related to the Devils. Every week, the...2025-02-2533 min
Réalisé Sans TrucageBREAKING NEWS : James Bond, Brady Corbet, les BAFTA & Captain AmericaOyez, oyez ! Voici les actualités ! Que se passe-t-il en ce moment dans le monde du cinéma ? Réponse dans cet épisode !Au programme : Amazon obtient le contrôle créatif de la franchise James Bond, le box-office mitigé de Captain America : Brave New World, le palmarès des BAFTA 2025 et la réalité économique du métier de cinéaste selon Brady Corbet.Bonne écoute !--------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapitres :00:00 Brady Corbet08:28 Le palmarès des BAFTA15:35 Captain America20:18...2025-02-2426 min
Trick PlayNFL Week 2 Predictions | Tom Brady Fox Debut | Early Playoff Predictions | Sept. 15th, 2024Simon and Caleb give their picks for all the Week 2 NFL Games, then give waaaay too early playoff and Super Bowl predictions and talk about Tom Brady's Broadcasting Debut.2024-09-152h 09
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveSpiritual Growth With Alejandra BradySpiritual growth is the ultimate healer. That sums up the 500 episodes of Thriving Adoptees in six words. And spiritual in this sense doesn't mean religious. Spiritual growth is seeing more of our essence underneath our psychology. Listen in as Alejandra shares the insights that fuelled her spiritual growth to catalyse ours.Adopted at five weeks into a loving and happy Mexican-American family, Alejandra had never sought her family of origin, but when they arrived unexpectedly, they showed up with a raft of issues that would test her inner strength and drive her spiritual growth. It was then...2024-06-281h 09
CXChronicles PodcastCXChronicles Podcast 223 with Simon Taylor, CEO & Founder at HYCUHey CX Nation,In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #223 we welcomed Simon Taylor, the CEO and founder of HYCU, the worlds fastest growing multicloud data protection company. Simon has more than 20 year's experience in go-to-market strategy development, product marketing and channel sales management for the tech industry. He has worked with leading companies such as Comtrade Group, Forrester Research, Putnam Investments and Omgeo. Simon is a board member at Uncornered, an active member of YPO, and a Research Fellow at Boston College. Simon founded, HYCU in 2018 as a pio...2024-03-1950 min
CXChronicles PodcastCXChronicles Podcast 220 with Simon Kriss, Leading Voice On AI In CXHey CX Nation,In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #220 we welcomed Simon Kriss, Leading Voice On AI In CX, Author, Futurist, Board & C-Suite AI Mentor based in Melbourne, Australia. Simon is a customer experience futurologist and thought leader who works with Company Boards and C-Suite Executives on innovation in their customer experience.He's also the author of the book The AI Empowered Customer Experience & the host of The CXII Podcast, please see the links below. In this episode, Simon and Adrian chat through how he has tackled The Four CX...2024-02-2843 min
Air Quality Matters#12.2 - Francesca Brady: Harmonizing Air Quality and ESG Strategies for Healthier Workspaces and Sustainable FuturesSend us a textPart 2Francesca Brady - is CEO and Co-Founder of AirRated an indoor air quality (IAQ) certification company She is an advisory member for the Camden Clean Air Initiative, the BREEAM Health and Wellbeing technical group, and a member of the International WELL Building Institute's Covid-19 Taskforce. A rising star in air quality in many ways including on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2021 for her work with Air rated.With a Masters in Environmental Geoscience specialising in indoor atmospheric chemistry she was Formerly Head of...2024-01-2958 minAir Quality Matters#12.1 - Francesca Brady: Investing in the Air We Breathe and a Thriving Workplace Environment.Send us a textPart 1Francesca Brady - is CEO and Co-Founder of AirRated an indoor air quality (IAQ) certification company She is an advisory member for the Camden Clean Air Initiative, the BREEAM Health and Wellbeing technical group, and a member of the International WELL Building Institute's Covid-19 Taskforce. A rising star in air quality in many ways including on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2021 for her work with Air rated.With a Masters in Environmental Geoscience specialising in indoor atmospheric chemistry she was Formerly Head of...2024-01-2952 min
Mass Timber Group Show: Sustainable Building ExpertsWhat Europe's Biggest Mass Timber Producer Has Planned | Simon Siegert of Binderholz | 25Mass Timber construction is exploding in popularity in North America due to increased demand for green building practices, and Europe's largest cross laminated timber producer, Binderholz, is paying attention. This episode unpacks the differences between the European and North American lumber and mass timber markets. Then, we talk about Binderholz's plan for expansion into the United States. Sustainable construction is going mainstream!Simon Siegert is known as the "US Guy" and head of Business Development here in North America. He's been highly involved in the Mass Timber industry for years, and is helping to lead Binderholz's entry...2024-01-181h 00
Simon Says: Educate!Episode #6: The Blueprint w/Brady HagemanIn Episode 6 of Simon Says: Educate!, Geoff Cain, Ronald Lethcoe, and e-learning expert Brady Hageman join us to demystify Canvas Blueprint. We differentiate between blueprints as guides and templates as elements, emphasizing blueprint's adaptability for various teaching styles. The "Week Zero" concept for pre-course orientation and incorporating instructor photos for engagement are discussed. We also explore FutureTools.io for AI resources and ChatGPT Plus's new features, highlighting the importance of campus clubs in student engagement, with Brady sharing his gaming club experience.
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Simon Says: Educate!Episode #4: Accessibility w/Brady HagemanIn Episode 4 of Simon Says: Educate!, Brady Hageman, LMS administrator at Clover Park Technical College, shares insights on online course accessibility, focusing on Canvas. We tackle challenges students face, like login issues, and Brady offers practical solutions like email logins to avoid password expiry. The episode delves into streamlining processes for a better user experience, suggesting strategies like simplified logins and the use of copy-paste functionality. We emphasize the value of resources like the accessibility report and learning from peers in creating engaging Canvas courses. The episode underscores the importance of the Teaching and Learning Center as a vital resource...2024-01-0527 minShout at the DevilsDevils Outscoring Their Problems; Simon Nemec Debut; Time to Trade For a Goalie | EPISODE 29In the 29th episode of 'Shout At The Devils' hosts Daniel Amoia (devils.report) and Justin Brady (devilsfanatics) discuss the Devils' recent offensive surge, as well as the injury to Dougie Hamilton and the (still) struggling goaltending.-"Shout At The Devils" is the ultimate podcast for fans of the New Jersey Devils, hosted by two hockey influencers, Justin Brady (@devilsfanatics) and Daniel Amoia (@devils.report). With their extensive knowledge of the team and their passion for the sport, Justin and Daniel provide insightful analysis, in-depth commentary, and engaging discussions on all things related to the Devils...2023-12-0730 min
Achieving Success with Olivia AtkinEp 56 Knowledge To Successfully Build Your Financial Plan Starting Early In Life with Simon BradyAchieving Success with Olivia Atkin Episode 56 "Knowledge To Successfully Build Your Financial Plan Starting Early In Life with Simon Brady”Olivia talks personal and professional achievements with Simon Brady. Simon is a Certified Financial Planner and the founder and owner of Anglia Advisors, a personal finance and investment consulting service that focuses on helping individuals, couples, families, foreign nationals living and working in the United States that are young professionals between the ages of their early 20s and mid 40s.Join Olivia every Tuesday as she brings on top notch guests to talk about how they ar...2023-11-2140 min
ANGLES.Noisy.It started out so well. There was green all over the board for a while with earnings mostly looking very perky. But in the end, sentiment was overwhelmed by the noise of higher interest rates, Middle East fears, bedlam in Congress, a government shutdown once again looming on the horizon, fears that consumer spending - and thereby inflation - is refusing to die and some rather nasty projections about the global financial system. Stocks began the week by jumping higher at the open on Monday and maintained their gains for the rest of the session, boosted both...2023-10-2206 min
ANGLES.Dazed And Confused.The stock market was open on Monday although the bond market wasn’t and it had its first chance to react to the latest flare up of the conflict in Israel and Palestine that broke out over the weekend. Wall Street tries to frame everything in dollars and cents, because, well, that’s its job - but it can often appear a little dazed and confused when it comes to having to suddenly price in geopolitical risk. After a predictable dip at the open, stocks recovered to push into positive territory by the close, driven higher not only...2023-10-1506 min
ANGLES.Weird.Stocks eventually ended a little higher for the week but it was a tough slog getting there with interest rates continuing to push ever higher (see AVERAGE 30-YEAR FIXED RATE MORTGAGE below) and a bizarre Jobs Report on Friday. Monday started out quietly. There was some relief at no government shutdown but an awareness that the can is now lying just a little further down the road and nothing had really changed. Markets quickly resumed their recent short-term path of least resistance by moving lower, with Small Caps once again leading the way downwards. Tuesday...2023-10-0806 min
ANGLES.A Bad Smell.The month of September duly lived up to its stock-killing reputation and there was a strong sense of good riddance from investors as markets closed on Friday. On the bright side, Octobers following losing Septembers have a history of being rather good for stock prices and November to December is historically a strong season. Last week began with a predictable but mild snap-back rally on Monday after the carnage that had followed the outcome of the most recent Fed meeting the week before. But the relief was short-lived. By Tuesday, markets across the board were back in...2023-10-0107 min
ANGLES.Reading The Tea Leaves.Last week was always going to be about Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting and its fallout. We are undergoing a major shift from the question being “How high will interest rates go?” (the market’s obsession over the last eighteen months) to “How long will interest rates stay high?” going forward.It is now the answer to this second question that will determine if the Fed’s stance is deemed to be hawkish (bad for stocks/bonds) or dovish (good for stocks/bonds). For any rally to continue, markets need, at a minimum, for the Fed to meet current e...2023-09-2407 min
ANGLES.Lurking.Reuters, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal all published articles last weekend essentially saying that the Fed is done with interest rate hikes and while that’s hardly new news, it helps counter some of the somewhat negative narratives that are emerging as investors step back to assess the state of the economy and the business cycle looking towards the end of the year.It’s leading to an increasingly popular stance among traders and investors of “strongly neutral” on stocks and bonds as markets seem to be lacking any faith in pushing things in either direction. Being st...2023-09-1707 min
ANGLES.Trading Jabs.U.S. markets found themselves heavily impacted last week by a number of decisions made from beyond its shores. The United States and China continue to trade jabs, particularly at each other’s tech giants and it’s having an effect on the stock market. Apple stock (AAPL) is probably the largest holding in most investors’ total market and large cap fund portfolios and it fell hard, swiftly shedding over $200 billion in market value following Wednesday’s report that China now plans to expand its ban on the use of iPhones to government workers at state firm...2023-09-1007 min
ANGLES.Time Out.A reasonably solid last few days of the month wasn’t enough to rescue August from being the first losing month for stocks since February, with the Large Cap S&P 500, the tech-heavy NASDAQ-100 and the Small Cap Russell 2000 losing 1.8%, 2.2% and 4.5% respectively.We're now heading into what is often the rockiest part of the year. September is the only month to have historically seen more stock market declines than advances over the years and October has previously hosted some of the most spectacular bouts of volatility. This particular September/October period carries its own additional ri...2023-09-0305 min
ANGLES.Interrupted?There’s a very accurate saying that that you can win just about any financial argument you like by simply adjusting the start and end dates of a scenario. There’s a perfect example of this on show right now with the most important question of all to investors. Is what we have seen over the last few weeks a temporary pullback within what is still a bull (rising) market that dates back to March of this year .. or .. is what we have seen over the last few months a temporary rally within what is still a bear...2023-08-2706 min
ANGLES.Afraid Of Its Own Shadow.As I’ll show in a moment, earnings and economic data last week generally propped up the case for a soft landing for the US economy and should have been celebrated, but the stock market seemed jumpy and afraid of its own shadow - seizing on anything negative it could find. There’s a downside to the current high level of economic strength. In something of a return to the old “good news is bad news” narrative of 2021 and 2022, solid evidence of stronger growth was viewed suspiciously as possibly fueling inflation, maybe prompting the Fed to raise...2023-08-2008 min
ANGLES.Just Following The Playbook.The stock market playbook is being followed exactly as we would expect and in the way that I have been banging on about in my recent weekly reports. The plain fact is that, around 4500, the S&P 500 index is priced for near-term perfection with zero room for any kind of disappointments, meaning that even the most modest of negatives (an uptick in market interest rates, some lackluster earnings, a less impressive economic report) or simply news or data that isn’t constantly positive, can cause market choppiness and sometimes significant pullbacks - not because the news is th...2023-08-1306 min
ANGLES.All Aboard The Happy Train?Bank of America became the latest to hop aboard the now-rather crowded Happy Train early last week, eagerly joining Team No Recession. The abrupt change of stance comes just a week after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that the central bank’s own economists are no longer forecasting a recession. As BofA economists put it in a note to clients on Wednesday;“Recent incoming data has made us reassess our prior view that a mild recession in 2024 is the most likely outcome for the US economy,” The no-recession narrative appeared to have been endorsed by the la...2023-08-0605 min
ANGLES.Open Door.To the surprise of precisely nobody, the Federal Reserve resumed its campaign of interest rate increases on Wednesday, pushing its target Fed Funds rate up another quarter of a percentage point to a range of 5.25%-5.50%, the highest level since J-Lo joined forces with Ja Rule to point out to us that she was real back in 2001. It marked the eleventh increase since March 2022, at which time the rate was near zero. There were only the slightest of tweaks to the wording of the committee's eagerly-awaited June policy statement and no hint that the Fed might react...2023-07-3006 min
ANGLES.Soon To Be Erased?Less than twenty months after it began, the bear market that engulfed the S&P 500 in early 2022 is now just 260 points away from being completely erased.2023 has barely passed its midpoint and the market has already blown through even the most optimistic estimates for where Wall Street thought the S&P 500 might be by year end. In the process, it has constantly defied all the early-year gloom accompanied by talk of a guaranteed recession, soaring inflation and an aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate policy.However, while it’s undeniable that the fears of a hard lan...2023-07-2305 min
ANGLES.Short And Shallow?Short and shallow seems to be the growing expectation surrounding any 2023 recession, if it ever even arrives at all. The US economy is stronger than most people expected and inflation is clearly stabilizing. This is the “immaculate disinflation” that many optimists talked about a year ago, with an economy simply showing signs of normalizing after a pandemic. Under this theory, the Federal Reserve may just get to have its cake and eat it, too.At the beginning of the year, stocks were priced for a meaningful economic slowdown and an earnings drop that never in fact happened. This...2023-07-1606 min
ANGLES.Evaporating.Fears of an imminent destructive recession and hopes of any interest rate cuts in 2023 are evaporating in equal measure, with each narrative pulling markets in opposite directions.We learned last week that the Fed was apparently a lot less united at its recent interest rate-setting June meeting than the announced unanimous decision suggested. According to the minutes of that gathering released on Wednesday, some officials favored another quarter-point increase right then and there, but eventually went along somewhat reluctantly with a decision to pause the hikes. Nearly all members of the rate-setting committee appeared to a...2023-07-0905 min
ANGLES.Higher For Longer.Q2 and H1 2023 came to close on Friday. I’ll be releasing a full deep-dive review of the quarter in the financial markets in my feed in the next few days. For the moment, suffice to say that the TL;DR for the month of June is that it was defined by higher stock index prices but with a modest narrowing of the performance gap between the Super-Cap tech stocks and the rest of the market. Recent events in Russia have obviously injected more geopolitical uncertainty into the world, but as long as commodity prices don’t spik...2023-07-0207 min
ANGLES.Pushing Back.US stocks endured a difficult holiday-shortened week amid concerns that higher interest rates could cause a slowdown in economic growth both here and abroad and a sense that stock market professionals may be starting to take profits on mega-cap tech and put the proceeds into bonds. There was also a feeling coming into the week that the recent rally had stretched short term valuations a bit and some cooling off of an over-bought condition was to be expected. And that’s exactly what we saw. The S&P 500 snapped its five-week winning streak, falling more than 1.4% (its wo...2023-06-2506 min
ANGLES.Connect The Dots.It was quite an extraordinary week in financial markets and potentially a very consequential one. The S&P 500 closed on Thursday at a higher level than it was the day before the Federal Reserve first started raising interest rates in March 2022. In other words, the index has now officially erased more than a year of Fed-inflicted interest rate pain. By the time the Fed meeting wrapped up on Wednesday, we had already received significant correspondence from the trenches of the war on inflation. When the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May came out the day before, we...2023-06-1807 min
ANGLES.Over The Edge?According to Wall Street’s categorization rules, the S&P 500 index exited bear market territory on Thursday when it closed up more than 20% from its lows from October of last year after spending 248 days there - the longest bear stretch since 1948. However, it still ended the week 10% below its all-time high from January 3rd 2022. While there’s absolutely nothing in the rules that says we can’t roll over into another new bear market right away, this one we’ve just been through is technically over. For what that’s worth. With shadow of a debt ceilin...2023-06-1106 min
ANGLES.Mixed Signals.Despite the best efforts of the whining Congressional arsonists on both sides, the Biden/McCarthy debt deal cruised comfortably through the House of Representatives and the Senate and straight to Biden’s desk for signature yesterday, bringing an end to the whole completely unnecessary psychodrama. Markets had briefly begun repricing the risk of there still being some kind of US government default, even a self-inflicted very short one, but it soon became clear that, while the burn-it-all-down crew of politicians might soon try to exact some form of internal revenge on their own “ideological traitors” who agreed to the...2023-06-0406 min
ANGLES.Skidding.Note: this report was completed before confirmation of the debt ceiling deal reached by negotiators. See my subsequent post: “Debt Ceiling Update”.Stocks skidded lower most of the week, giving back a lot of the previous week’s gains, as there was minimal reported progress towards a debt ceiling deal between the White House and Congressional Republicans. Talks seemed to collapse and restart over and over again with negotiators constantly talking out of both sides of their mouths so as to make absolutely nothing any of them said ever remotely believable. We are now just days a...2023-05-2807 min
ANGLES.Smoke And Mirrors.The S&P 500 is at exactly the same level it was at two years ago. That’s a lot of angst and stress expended for no net change in 24 months. As if to emphasize the point, the stock market spent large portions of last week just churning sideways on very low volume as traders monitored the reported progress in debt ceiling negotiations. These dreary spells were occasionally punctuated by bursts of activity as i) carefully-managed clues were tactically released about how the debt ceiling negotiations might be going and ii) Fed officials suddenly got very talkative again.Th...2023-05-2107 min
ANGLES.Turning Sour.Attention on Wall Street is shifting away from guessing future interest rates to the distinct possibility of an economic downturn. And that is encouraging investors to reward the strong and punish the weak. This is causing increasing divergences between the performance of different stocks within the same index or even the same sector.Winners offsetting losers is giving the impression of a quiet market not really going anywhere when you look down on it from an index level, but there is a lot going on under the surface. We are also seeing bonds finally beginning t...2023-05-1406 min
ANGLES.Lurking In The Shadows.Note: I have published an updated version of my recent article “Cash Is Interesting Again. And Safe.” to reflect the higher interest being paid on cash accounts starting tomorrow with millions of dollars in insurance by both Flourish (increased to 4.55% for Tier 1 and 4.25% for Tier 2) and Betterment (increased to 4.50%). The updated version of the article can be viewed here. Markets woke up on Monday morning to the news that First Republic Bank (FRC) had finally been taken behind the woodshed and shot in what is now the new second-largest bank failure in US history, snatching that dubious hono...2023-05-0706 min
ANGLES.A Low Bar.With trading volumes contracting rapidly, the stock market - at least as represented by the major indexes - was acting early last week like it had already checked out for summer and it’s not even May yet. It was proving to be something of a snooze-fest with a generally negative tilt as far as the headline indexes were concerned. But under the surface, things were playing out rather differently.Earnings and guidance are generally holding up better than expected, mostly beating estimates at a good clip - notably Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet/Google (GOOGL), Meta/Facebook (META) an...2023-04-3007 min
DFS BY THE NUMBERSUFC Vegas 72 Full Card Breakdown & Predictions | Ricky Simon vs Yadong SongCheck out my website "dfsbythenumbers.com". There you will find all my MMA betting and DFS content. Check out my affordable pricing options and get access to my bets right when I place them, my stats you see on screen, betting articles, and extra content that is not shown on Youtube!I also put my content on Patreon as well for those who are more comfortable with that platform. You can find me there at patreon.com/dfsbythenumbersBe sure to follow me on social media for live updates and my DM's are always open...2023-04-2439 min
ANGLES.Maximum Pain.It is said on Wall Street that the goal of the market is to extract the maximum amount of pain from the greatest number of people. What this is getting at is that when everyone is positioned as bullish, the pain trade is for markets to move lower. When everyone is bearish, the pain trade is for them to go higher. As such, the pain trade has been mostly inflicted on the bears so far in 2023 and is helping support stocks, despite decidedly dodgy economic fundamentals. Sentiment matters in the short-term and so the pain trade was...2023-04-2305 min
ANGLES.Hard Times Or Great Expectations?Last week was a busy one with plenty of economic data to chew on and lots of soundbites from International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials and Federal Reserve presidents. It also marked the opening of the Q1 2023 earnings season.Monday started out mostly jittery and trendless as the stock market tried to digest the Jobs Report from the holiday Friday before. Interestingly, the laggards were stocks in the defensive sectors like Utilities and Consumer Defensive that had outperformed the previous week, as worries eased about the prospect of an economic “hard landing” (i.e. inflation is only finally kill...2023-04-1607 min
ANGLES.The Major Unknown.The week and the month began with investors shifting their attention away from March's banking turmoil and back to the risk of a recession that could drag down consumer spending, thereby corporate profits and thereby stock prices. And the holiday-shortened week provided plenty for them to focus on. Unexpected output cuts from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, see EXPLAINER: FINANCIAL TERM OF THE WEEK below) were announced on Monday after oil prices dipped in March amid the banking stress and fears over the global economic outlook. Unsurprisingly, oil prices and oil stocks soared to...2023-04-0906 min
ANGLES.No News Is Good News.The S&P 500 ended the week, month and quarter sitting almost exactly in the middle of its range over the last year and a strange calm seems to have descended upon markets. No scary news from the banking sector last week allowed investors to focus on other things, such as earnings and economic releases, which were mostly pretty good. Traders started the week with a smile on their faces as they learned that First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), a North Carolina-based regional bank, had agreed to take over substantially all of the assets and liabilities of collapsed Silicon...2023-04-0206 min
ANGLES.Almost There.A decent gain in stock prices on Monday was put down to a combination of an oversold bounce from the anguish of the two prior sessions, UBS finally putting Credit Suisse (CS) out of its misery by buying their Swiss banking rival for less than half of its value as well as not-too-guarded optimism about what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell might say in his press conference later in the week, specifically speculating that he might formally announce that the rate-hiking cycle was over. Concerns about First Republic Bank (FRC) just refused to go away. Despite stories...2023-03-2605 min
ANGLES.Get Out Of Jail Free?A week following three major US bank failures that then saw two other banks sail very close to the wind ended with stock markets higher, the S&P 500 was up 1.4% for the week and the NASDAQ closed 4.4% higher. Anyone who claims they can correctly predict this stuff is such a liar. Monday was the largest trading volume day so far this year on US exchanges (a record that lasted until Friday, when it was surpassed) and saw a bloodbath for shares of many regional banks on the back of the failures of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank and...2023-03-1907 min
Mind Muscle with Simon de VeerTom Brady SmoothieEpisode Description: Welcome to the Mind Muscle Podcast where there is nothing new, except all that has been forgotten.Today Simon dives into the health routine of Tom Brady. The brand TB12 has become a staple of Brady’s lifestyle, so today Simon takes a look at the Tom Brady smoothie, and if it's everything it's cracked up to be. Will Simon be able to throw a 60 yard touchdown pass by the end of this episode? Pfff. Of course he can!Relevant Sources:Men’s Health Magazine The Pla...2023-03-0247 min