The Gisele indicator strikes again

An old joke of financial journalism is: "Two is a trend", so let's just continue and appoint Gisele Bündchen as the worst FX indicator of all time.

The appearance of the supermodel in a rel = "Nofollow noopener" Target = "_ blank" href = "https://twitter.com/jasonzweigwsj/status/153374686053120?s=20&t=qx5yc0-mqtr9b3nbovoyya" Data trackable = "Link"> Four-sided New York advertising distance Together with the somewhat less photogenic Sam Bankman-Fried von FTX, of course, some cheerfulness has ensured some cheerfulness today, given the crypto core melt that is currently developing.

She also performed at the Bahamas Bragathon of FTX at the beginning of this year, together with her Bitcoin brother husband Tom Brady with the laser eyes and two politicians from the 1990s called William Clinton and Anthony Blair. of course also the power couple (cuffs and Brady, not Clinton and Blair) has an NFT platform.

ft Alphaville does not know whether cuffs have been paid for FTX advertising in conventional Fiat or crypto, but in view of their track record we will bet on the latter. Regardless of this, the timing of the ad is amazing.

As early as November 2007, Bündchen's sister Patricia told Bloomberg that the supermodel would rather be paid in euros from now on "because we don't know what happens to the dollar". Brazil's veja The magazine reported that at least Pantene had fulfilled this.

The story ran everywhere (also at FTAV). Even the WSJ scolded the DISS on its editorial pages and used it as an excuse to beat the Fed. plus Change . But it turns out that Bündchen has ticked the euro almost perfectly:

Fairyly one has to say that both modelers and models had difficulty dealing with the inconsistency of currencies, an area that is so difficult to predict that Sellside analysts often joke that God had invented foreign strategists in order to make economics appear accurate.

Maybe Bündchen's ultimate goal is that foreign strategists feel better?