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The Financial Times’ award-winning podcast series Hot Money is back. In this series our reporter Mil

The price of gold reached a record high last week. That’s surprising, because normally the price of

Down the liquidity hole

2023/11/30

Market watchers cannot help but notice how the stock market and money supply often track one another

Have rates peaked?

2023/11/28

Markets have rallied almost 11 percent in November, in part on expectations that the Fed is done rai

The London Stock Exchange now makes most of its money selling data, and only a small percentage list

The zombie companies

2023/11/21

As interest rates rise, funding for a lot of marginally profitable companies is drying up. These cor

What does Walmart know?

2023/11/16

It’s earning season, and the first big news might be from Walmart, whose stock dropped 7 per cent af

Four months ago, the FT’s Rob Armstrong and Elaine Moore placed their bets on two portfolios of thre

How many bears does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it will never happen. Join us today as we d

Today on the show, host Katie Martin pits two teams against one another in a historic finance trivia

Reporter Joshua Oliver joins us just hours after the closing arguments of the fraud trial of Sam Ban

Why so down, S&P 500?

2023/10/31

GDP numbers are strong. Wages are strong. Household debt is relatively low. So why is the stock mark

A massive GDP number

2023/10/26

In the third quarter, the US economy, as measured by annualised GDP, grew 4.9%. In an environment of

The CSI 300, which tracks the largest publicly traded companies in China, just fell to pre-pandemic

FTX trial update

2023/10/19

Today on the show, FT correspondent Josh Oliver joins us in the New York studio just minutes after l

Japan’s new direction

2023/10/17

The Japanese stock market is on a tear, up 20% this year. Some of that may be due to a weakening yen

For years, low interest rates let private equity deliver huge returns to investors. But now rates ar

Conflict in the Middle East is dominating the news this week. Today on the show, we’re looking at th

The Biden scorecard

2023/10/5

We don’t really do politics, but with election season underway, candidates are arguing about the Ame

The 10- and 30- year Treasury yields just hit their highest levels since 2007, sending prices down.