Gregor Stuart Hunter

Gregor Stuart Hunter

@gregorhunter.bsky.social

Asia markets and finance breaking news at Reuters. Previous work in The Guardian, Fortune, Daily Telegraph, Nikkei Asia, WSJ, Bloomberg and The Wire China. Views my own, and all that.

252 Followers 477 Following 286 Posts Joined Jul 2023
15 hours ago

Noooooooo 😩 first it’s Friday the 13th, then we have to beware the Ides of March *as well?*

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That’s not enough people. Assuming a standard calendar year, several hundred people is max two or three per day. @beijingpalmer.bsky.social should get out more.

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2 days ago
WTI futures curve

well, the backwardation isn't really calming down in WTI (white = day, orange = 1 week ago, blue = 1 month ago):

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2 days ago

Pipedrive? More like “pipe down, at the stalwart”

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2 days ago

"Sell what you can" this year == liquid markets that have performed well recently like Korea, Taiwan, Japan and... the US?

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2 days ago
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Partners Group sounds alarm on private credit default rates Chair of Swiss private capital group warns pace could double to above 5% in coming years

Private credit is blowing up, just like *everyone said* 😓💢

FT: Partners Group sounds alarm on defaults
www.ft.com/content/7ebf...

RTRS: Morgan Stanley restricts redemptions as withdrawals surge
www.reuters.com/business/fin...

BBG: Japanese insurers still keen!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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2 days ago

lol. lmao, even

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2 days ago

Burn through the tokens
And boil all the oceans
And slop in the back of my
Dragula

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Solutions to get oil out of the Persian Gulf, wrong answers only

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2 days ago

Not investment advice!

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2 days ago

I greatly enjoyed asking Copilot how much of a balanced 60-40 portfolio should be allocated to specifically the "Will the US confirm that aliens exist before 2027?" contract.

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“Well, with a name like that, you would expect as much,” sighed Mrs Earnshaw. “What are you doing here!” ejaculated Heathcliff, rushing in.

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“Then he might content us a little more by taking the time to write his first draft without recourse to Wikipedia,” chuckled Emma, inviting a scowl from Mr. Knightley.

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3 days ago
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Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.

Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

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Mr. Hunter is known to find the agony of enduring another six months to post his nonsense almost entirely unimaginable. “Moreover, he is quite a supercilious sort,” scoffed Lady Russell. “Do not invite him to Kellynch.”

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott suggested this morning that he had decided not to compel Fed Chair Jay Powell to produce his regular, Q1 monetary policy testimony, due to the fallout from the DOJ probe

"He is more concerned about the criminal proceeding, and I get that," Scott told CNBC

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2 days ago

No, that’s how I talk

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2 days ago

Quite peculiar, as it’s not Talk Like Jane Austen Day until the 30th of October

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3 days ago

It was only two days ago 😄

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3 days ago

Looks fun!

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3 days ago

Story by Fanny Potkin, Stanley Widianto (xcancel.com/stanleywidia...) and Ananda Teresia, none of whom I can find here 😓

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3 days ago
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White supremacist content grips teens plotting attacks in Southeast Asia When police detained an Indonesian teenager accused of bombing his high-school campus in Jakarta in November, he had a life-size toy rifle inscribed with "welcome to hell" and the names of white supre...

Police in Southeast Asia say they're grappling with a surge in violent plots imitating white supremacists among local teenagers, who authorities say have been radicalised by social media. Some of the people being monitored are as young as 11; not one of them is white. www.reuters.com/business/med...

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3 days ago

It's like 1992 all over again

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3 days ago
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Chinese tech hubs promote OpenClaw AI agent despite security warnings Local governments in several Chinese tech and manufacturing hubs have announced measures to build ‌an industry around OpenClaw, an AI agent seeing rapid adoption even as regulators warn of security ri...

I'm old enough to remember when Chinese local authorities were offering subsidies to use OpenClaw www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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3 days ago

Of course USDJPY was 265 in September 1973

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Graphic showing Japanese inflation hitting 23.2% in 1974, the sharpest increase on record. Source: World Bank via FRED®

It got pretty bad after the 1973 crisis when OAPEC used the oil weapon. Consumer prices rose 23.2% the following year! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oi...

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3 days ago

A kipper tie feels more in line with the Zeitgeist.

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3 days ago

Singapore. For extra credit, Taiwan.

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3 days ago
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ToXCancel – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) Download ToXCancel for Firefox. Redirects to xcancel.com (a mirror of x) when the browser is about to load an x.com page

If you would like to look at x.com but don't actually want to go to x.com and would prefer to go to xcancel.com, for reasons, there is a Firefox extension for that: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

The source code is pleasingly minimalist. Thanks @gturri.bsky.social!
codeberg.org/gturri/ToXCa...

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