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Host of The Open Bell — financial news in plain English, every weekday.
Aug 14, 2026
Four months running, your wages have lost to inflation. Today's CPI data makes it official again, and no one in Washington seems particularly bothered.
Aug 13, 2026
Three stories today that all pull in the same direction: prices are stubborn, energy is a mess, and your wallet knows it before the data does.
Aug 12, 2026
This morning's CPI number is essentially a receipt for a war that most of us didn't vote for — and it lands with the Fed already split on whether to hike.
Aug 11, 2026
One diplomatic replacement in Tehran and the whole week just got more expensive.
Aug 10, 2026
The jobs number was bad. The market reaction was the opposite of bad. If that feels like whiplash, you're not alone — but there's a logic to it, and it matters for your borrowing costs.
Aug 7, 2026
A strike near Hormuz, a jobs market too strong for the Fed's liking, and Beijing quietly admitting things aren't going as well as it said. Busy Friday.
Aug 6, 2026
Three big stories today, and they're all pulling in different directions. Cheap oil, soft jobs, a pharma giant printing money. Let's get into it.
Aug 4, 2026
Three separate stories landed at the same time yesterday and pointed in the same direction — and that almost never happens cleanly. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Aug 3, 2026
Buckle up — one tweet-length claim from the White House wiped billions off the oil market overnight, and the ripples are still spreading across three continents this morning.
Jul 31, 2026
Today's data drop is one of those where the good news and the bad news are so tangled together it's hard to know which way to feel — so let's just work through it.
Jul 30, 2026
Three separate stories broke yesterday — and they all landed on the same bruise.
Jul 28, 2026
Two stories today pulling in completely opposite directions: Seoul's market hit the brakes as the AI trade cracked, while a Chinese chipmaker you've never heard of briefly became worth more than Walmart. Same sector, wildly different signals.
Jul 27, 2026
The ceasefire headlines look good, the oil chart looks better, but there's enough still smoldering in this week's data to keep you reading past the fold.
Jul 24, 2026
Twelve consecutive nights of US airstrikes on Iran, a Houthi blockade of Saudi tankers, oil above $100, and a tech-led market rout — it's a lot for a Friday morning, so let's get straight to it.
Jul 23, 2026
Two of the world's busiest oil corridors are under threat at the same time, and the markets are only just starting to price that in.
Jul 22, 2026
Thirty days. That's how long consumers, automakers, and trade lawyers have before a 1930s-era tariff law reshapes the price of everything from a wheel of cheddar to a Chevy built north of the border.
Jul 21, 2026
Nine consecutive nights of strikes, one sentence from Tehran, and suddenly chip stocks are rallying at 2am. It's that kind of market right now.
Jul 20, 2026
The Middle East handed every central banker a problem they can't solve with a spreadsheet this weekend, and markets are already pricing in the damage.
Jul 17, 2026
The market this week keeps doing that thing where good news arrives and prices fall anyway — which is either a warning sign or a buying opportunity, depending on your conviction level.
Jul 16, 2026
Two weeks of cooling inflation data, and then the Middle East had other ideas.
Jul 15, 2026
Good morning. Yesterday threw a lot at the wall — a blockbuster inflation print, a historic corporate collapse, and China quietly missing its growth target — and most of it connects back to the same underlying story: the Iran situation is rewriting the rules on everything from your gas bill to your company's software budget.
Jul 14, 2026
Today is one of those mornings where you almost feel sorry for anyone trying to read just one headline and call it done.
Jul 13, 2026
Three things happened overnight that pull in completely different directions — and somehow they're all connected to the same pressure point: the cost of energy.
Jul 11, 2026
This was one of those weeks where geopolitics reminded markets exactly who's in charge, and then semiconductors reminded geopolitics to hold its beer.
Jul 10, 2026
Two stories today that look unrelated but aren't: the most expensive long-term borrowing the US government has seen in two decades, and the biggest foreign company debut on Wall Street since Alibaba. Both of them are about who pays for the AI build-out, and who gets stuck with the bill.
