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The Open Bell

The Open Bell

By: Alex Monroe
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The Open Bell is an independent financial news show — a daily podcast and newsletter for people who are affected by markets, policy, and the economy.

Every episode follows the same process: research, a written script, a quality check, and a final review — every morning, before anything goes out. Alex is the on-air voice of that process. The tools behind the research and scripting are AI; the editorial judgment and the responsibility for what airs are ours.

We tell you this because trust is the actual product here, not an afterthought — and a daily show only earns it by being straightforward about how it's made. The standard doesn't change because the tools did.

New episodes Monday to Saturday. Not investment advice — for informational purposes only.

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Episodes
  • The Open Bell — Ep. 080 — 12 Oct 2026

    The Open Bell — Ep. 080 — 12 Oct 2026
    12 Oct 2026
    Today on The Open Bell: Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday, oil dropped below $104 a barrel on the news, and Ukraine said Russian strikes on its power grid had already resumed by Monday morning. A Chinese state-backed chipmaker just disclosed a next-generation memory chip design that sent Samsung shares down more than 3%, and if you think the chip war was already tense, CXMT says it wants these in servers before the end of the year. OpenAI accidentally overstated its own revenue by $18 billion last week, briefly erasing hundreds of billions in value from the Nasdaq, the tech index tracking America's biggest growth companies, before a correction put the number closer to right, which raises a question the correction itself doesn't answer: how does a number that size get wrong in the first place? If this helped you make sense of today, a rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify takes about ten seconds and helps the next listener find us. New episodes every weekday morning at theopenbell.co Not investment advice. For informational purposes only. --- Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:13 Trump energy ceasefire sends oil below $104 but Houthi doubt 03:21 China's CXMT chip breakthrough sends Samsung and SK Hynix sh 06:06 OpenAI revenue correction sparks tech rebound after Nasdaq's 07:42 Closing thoughts

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    9 min
  • The Open Bell — Ep. 079 — 9 Oct 2026

    The Open Bell — Ep. 079 — 9 Oct 2026
    9 Oct 2026
    Today on The Open Bell: Oil is back above $100 a barrel because ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel that carries roughly a fifth of the world's crude, are under threat, and the knock-on is already showing up in grocery prices from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur and in government budgets that were not built for $102 oil. Samsung just told its suppliers to cut shipments by up to 30% this quarter, because the same memory chip that's powering every AI model you've heard of is now too expensive to put inside a smartphone at a price anyone wants to pay. American Express has been fined $350 million for running an anti-money-laundering programme that regulators decided wasn't really doing the job, one of the largest penalties a US card network has ever faced, and every other major card company is quietly reviewing its own back office today. If today's episode helped you make sense of what's actually moving, a five-star rating takes thirty seconds and it genuinely helps the next listener find the show. New episodes every weekday morning at theopenbell.co Not investment advice. For informational purposes only. --- Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:16 Brent Above $102 as Hormuz Supply Anxiety Stiffens Global In 03:31 Samsung Cuts Q4 Smartphone Output 30% as Memory Prices Hit $ 05:58 American Express Fined $350M for Anti-Money-Laundering Failu 08:01 Closing thoughts

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    8 min
  • The Open Bell — Ep. 078 — 8 Oct 2026

    The Open Bell — Ep. 078 — 8 Oct 2026
    8 Oct 2026
    Today on The Open Bell: Brent crude just jumped more than three dollars in a single session to clear $103 a barrel, and if you've ever wondered how fast a flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz turns into a higher number at the petrol pump, today's your case study. Chinese stock markets reopened this morning after a week-long National Day holiday and walked straight into a wall of news their traders had been locked out of, including US government borrowing costs at levels nobody's seen since 2002, which makes their first session back less a trading day and more a damage assessment. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury, basically the interest rate the government pays when it borrows, hit 5.35% on Tuesday, a 24-year high, and what sounds like an abstract number in a headline is in practice a direct line to what you pay on a new mortgage. If today's episode helped you get your head around any of that, a five-star rating takes about ten seconds and genuinely helps other people find the show. New episodes every weekday morning at theopenbell.co Not investment advice. For informational purposes only. --- Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:16 Oil Surges Past $103 as Middle East Tensions Tighten Supply 02:55 China's A-Shares Reopen After 7-Day Golden Week Break to New 05:11 US 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High of 5.35% on Oct 07:11 Closing thoughts

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    8 min
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