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Wizz Air can double passengers profitably.
Varadi is bullish on Wizz Air's medium-term growth and margin story. The revenue and fare environment is improving, liquidity is stronger, and Wizz is cutting winter capacity to support pricing. Its fuel-efficient larger aircraft, lower fuel burn, longer routes, and cost leadership should let it become the undisputed cost leader, double passengers over four years, and grow at the expense of weaker airlines. Its aircraft-finance debt is fixed-rate and non-recourse, making rising capital costs a competitive advantage, while fuel is hedged at roughly half the market price through much of the period.
US growth outperformance supports dollar.
Lignos says the dollar is supported by the contrast between a relatively resilient US economy and a European economy that may slow in autumn. Fiscal-dominance fears and capital outflows from the US have not materialized in the data, so she focuses on relative growth performance, which favors the dollar.
Steep JGB curve weakens yen.
Linton says the BOJ decision and Ueda press conference were not hawkish enough and the BOJ cannot out-hawk the market. The steepening JGB yield curve is concerning for Japanese assets and does not bode well for the yen, while intervention risk looms. He expects dollar-yen to remain pent up.
UK gilt curve may reprice higher.
Linton says the Bank of England is more inclined to hike in coming months, making the November setup similar to the US, and the UK curve is significantly steeper than peers. That leaves scope for the gilt curve to reprice as hawkish rate expectations get priced in, though energy prices remain a key variable.
Euro rates may reprice on data.
Linton says the euro side has scope to reprice because the ECB is at the upper end of neutral and markets price another three hikes by April, but there has been no catalyst yet and the relationship with crude has been mechanical. He sees PMIs as a potential catalyst for euro area rates and the euro.
Re-leveraging favors equities and commodities.
Alberto says the re-leveraging cycle and the transfer of risk from bondholders toward equities and hard assets are good news for equities and commodities. Even if yields rise and bonds produce negative returns, stocks can go up because the capex and growth cycle is being protected and central banks are repricing capital rather than disrupting growth.
Long hard assets and resource countries.
Alberto wants to be long hard assets and countries with minerals and resources. He says Brazil is a resource-rich country alongside a relatively better-positioned US, and it fits the East-West competition for commodities and hard assets.
Own energy, defense, infrastructure on spending.
Alberto wants to own energy, defense, and infrastructure because these are value sectors even without AI and are areas where Western governments will invest and spend amid East-West competition over hard assets and commodities. He favors companies in these sectors with pricing power.
Avoid consumer and luxury on taxes.
Alberto says it is not a great time to buy consumer or luxury because governments will eventually have to find more taxes, which will weigh on those areas. He prefers hard-asset and government-spending sectors.
Convertibles offer equity upside plus spread.
Alberto says the interesting part of the bond market is convertibles because they give upside on the equity side, not just the credit spread. With plain bonds and credit offering little value, convertibles are a preferred pocket.
Nvidia chip sales to double next year.
Jensen Huang remains strongly bullish on Nvidia demand despite AI risk concerns. He expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips next year as this year because AI is contributing to many industries, economies, and countries that want to invest in AI. He is not brushing off AI risks broadly, but says the focus should be on companies developing safe models, and open source/open-weight models are an important growth driver.
BOJ behind curve, yen stays weak.
Ram argues the BOJ is behind the curve and lacks conviction to raise rates successively. Two dissenters voted against the hike and Ueda refused to commit to back-to-back hikes. With the Fed also hiking and the US-Japan rate differential wide, real rates are unattractive for the yen, so the yen is being hammered and should remain on the back foot.
This Bloomberg Markets video, published September 18, 2026,
features Jozsef Varadi, Elsa Lignos, Adam Linton, Alberto, Jensen Huang, Ven Ram
discussing WIZZ.L, USD, USD/JPY, UKGILT, Euro area bonds, Equities, DBC, Hard assets, EWZ, XLE, ITA, PAVE, Luxury, XLP, CWB, NVDA.
12 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.
Speakers:
Jozsef Varadi,
Elsa Lignos,
Adam Linton,
Alberto,
Jensen Huang,
Ven Ram
· Tickers:
WIZZ.L,
USD,
USD/JPY,
UKGILT,
Euro area bonds,
Equities,
DBC,
Hard assets,
EWZ,
XLE,
ITA,
PAVE,
Luxury,
XLP,
CWB,
NVDA
