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We live in the age of supercompanies: massive, dominant players that seem to get better as they grow

Are dividends back?

2024/2/13

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta just announced its first-ever dividend, which is something that rapidly growi

How not to pick stocks

2024/2/8

Each year the FT hosts a stockpicking contest. Today on the show, we go over our picks for 2023, whi

High-yield bond bonanza

2024/2/6

Demand for riskier corporate bonds is intense. The spread between higher yielding (riskier) bonds an

New York Community Bancorp shares fell 38% on Wednesday, partly on worries about the bank’s exposure

While markets around the world took off last year, China continued to stumble. Will 2024 be any diff

Boardroom games

2024/1/25

New rules about how board members are elected could change how corporate America is governed. In Mar

While the S&P 500 just hit a new high, the FTSE 100 is down about 3 per cent for the year. Today

Is America overpriced?

2024/1/18

There is an historically large premium on the S&P 500, when compared to markets in the rest of t

As interest rates jumped, cash ruled for a lot of investors. The payment for doing absolutely nothin

Introducing Untold, a new podcast from the special investigations team at the Financial Times. In it

Today's inflation numbers

2024/1/11

Today on the show, we dig into the latest inflation numbers, examining the results for shelter, good

Tech stock winners

2024/1/9

In July, the FT’s Rob Armstrong and Elaine Moore went head-to-head in a stock-picking competition, d

Cool markets, hot takes

2024/1/4

After a roaring December, the markets cooled a bit in the first days of 2024. Today on the show, hos

Today on the show, we’re looking at the year ahead, with AI by our side. Our colleague Bryce Elder a

The Unhedged Awards

2023/12/21

Today on the show, hosts Ethan Wu, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong dole out the first-ever Unhedgies,

Markets gone wild

2023/12/19

Last week’s Fed statements revealed that its Open Market Committee was thinking about the possibilit

Jonathan Guthrie has been covering finance for 37 years. Today on the show, he talks with hosts Etha

Central bank lookahead

2023/12/12

Inflation has slowed in the US, the UK, and the EU. Will this mean interest rate cuts next year? Mar

The return of crypto

2023/12/7

Bitcoin just hit $40,000, Coinbase is up 300 per cent this year, and French bank Société Générale is