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Markets Wrap: Private Credit, War and a Lack of Safe Havens
Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek assess the market reaction to oil price volatity and question whether gold, bonds or even hard assets can …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
UK Smart Savings Dilemma: SIPP, ISA or LISA?
On this week's Merryn Talks Your Money personal finance episode, Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek tackle a listener’s question about an issue man…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Gold, Debt and the AI Boom: A Financial Historian’s Warning
On this week's Merryn Talks Money podcast, host Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with financial historian Edward Chancellor about how energy constraints a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Markets Wrap: War, Energy and the Return of Inflation Risk
Markets have swung sharply as the escalating war in Iran and across the Middle East injects fresh uncertainty into oil prices, inflation, and the pat…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Exclusive: Rachel Reeves on Iran Shock, US Trade and Inflation Risks
Hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek react to the Spring Statement, plus Bloomberg's exclusive interview with Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
She sat…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
What Can Quant Trading Strategies Teach Us About Markets?
Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with Simon Judes, chief investment officer of Winton, about how to properly understand quantitative investing. Judes atte…
2 months ago
Markets Wrap: From YOLO to HALO
From YOLO to HALO. In this week's markets wrap, hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss why markets are ditching high multiple AI and soft…
2 months ago
The 51% Graduate Tax
Many of the graduates whose university costs were funded with Plan 2 student loans are now in their 30s, wondering why they have no money at the end …
2 months ago
Diversification Play: Why It's Not Too Late to Buy Asia
Fiona Yang, portfolio manager on the Invesco Asia Dragon Trust, joins Merryn Somerset Webb to discuss why global capital rotated from US equities int…
2 months, 1 week ago
Markets Weekly: Inflation Falls, Wage Growth Cools, and Bets on BOE Cuts
On this week's markets wrap, John Stepek speaks with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marcus Ashworth and Morwenna Coniam from the Markets Today team abou…
2 months, 1 week ago