Buy The Dip: Sellside design, UK election, and the manicure economy

See you on the other side

This might be the last BTD for a while, as I’ve only got one more week in the office before going on leave for six weeks to continue writing my book on the history of the bond market. And when I return we’ll probably be short-staffed on FT Alphaville and posting will have to be ruthlessly prioritised.

However, don’t let that stop any new readers from hitting the….

… and I’ll see you all again later this summer. In the meantime, here is our guide on how to get Alphaville’s triple-A content for free, including straight in your inbox, and here is this week’s chart quiz.

This past week’s FTAV links:

📈We tried to design the perfect sellside note. How did we do? Notes on notes on notes.

📈 The Manicure Economy. A guest post by former WSJ star Fedwhisperer Jon Hilsenrath.

📈‘WhaT doeS tHe ElecTIoN meaN for the FTSE?’ Past performance is indicative of nothing.

📈 Altcoin ETFs, stake houses, and tail risk in the crypto-circular economy. Has your token been taken?

📈Vivek vs BuzzFeed. This time it’s activist.

📈 The Sri Lanka-linked future of macro-linked bonds. Facile hurdles undermine a good idea.

📈 Timely and accurate disclosure: UK PLC edition. With XP Power comes not much responsibility

📈A sell-side guide to the economically inconsequential UK election. Things can only get better, worse, or stay roughly the same

📈 Bill Gross seeking final exit liquidity. For his stamp collection, that is.

📈 US commercial real estate a year after the SVBacle. Not great. Not terrible either though.

📈Well, inflation has been defeated. What next for the Bank of England? Four mildly interesting updates.

📈 Edited highlights from the evisceration of Craig Wright. Putting the tosh in Satoshi.

📈 The all-American cheat sheet to Europe’s trade weak spots. Hit ’em in the prawns.

📈 Gaming over? The CFTC’s veerrrry broad definition of gaming contracts.

📈 ESG funds are leaking money for the first time. World: doomed.

See you later!