The Repricing Nobody Scheduled
For three months, the market quietly re-rated the cost of time. No central bank asked it to. The consequences are only now arriving on balance sheets.
The Markets desk follows how capital moves and what it reveals — rate regimes, credit stress, the quiet mechanics of liquidity, and the businesses being repriced in real time.
For three months, the market quietly re-rated the cost of time. No central bank asked it to. The consequences are only now arriving on balance sheets.
Equity indices tell you how everyone feels. High-yield spreads tell you who is about to be forced to sell. The two disagree more often than they should.
After a decade of rewarding growth at any price, the market has rediscovered an old virtue: companies that can say no.
Liquidity feels like a property of markets. It is closer to a collective agreement — and agreements can be revoked without notice.