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The return of crypto
Bitcoin just hit $40,000, Coinbase is up 300 per cent this year, and French bank Société Générale is rolling out a stablecoin. All this frothy news comes after a record penalty levied on Binance by t…
Published on 2 years ago
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
The Financial Times’ award-winning podcast series Hot Money is back. In this series our reporter Miles Johnson investigates a mysterious murder in a small town that leads to a web of drugs, money lau…
Published on 2 years ago
Gold just set a record. Why?
The price of gold reached a record high last week. That’s surprising, because normally the price of gold goes down when interest rates go higher. Today on the show, we try to figure out what’s drivin…
Published on 2 years ago
Down the liquidity hole
Market watchers cannot help but notice how the stock market and money supply often track one another. But does liquidity in the financial sector matter more to stock prices than the economy? In this …
Published on 2 years ago
Have rates peaked?
Markets have rallied almost 11 percent in November, in part on expectations that the Fed is done raising rates. Today on the show, we look at the Fed’s likely pause and how investors are responding. …
Published on 2 years ago
What the London Stock Exchange really trades
The London Stock Exchange now makes most of its money selling data, and only a small percentage listing stocks. FT digital markets correspondent Nikou Asgari joins Katie Martin to ask what that tells…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
The zombie companies
As interest rates rise, funding for a lot of marginally profitable companies is drying up. These corporate “zombies” are wandering the markets, looking for the cheap credit they used to feast on. Tod…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
What does Walmart know?
It’s earning season, and the first big news might be from Walmart, whose stock dropped 7 per cent after it reported concerns about the health of the consumer. This is a counter narrative to the stron…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Big Tech roundup: Tesla, Nvidia, Apple and more
Four months ago, the FT’s Rob Armstrong and Elaine Moore placed their bets on two portfolios of three stocks each picked from the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks that have been dominating markets thi…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
A drastic solution to exploding US government debt
How many bears does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it will never happen. Join us today as we debrief reporter Jenn Hughes, recently back from a conference hosted by the biggest bear of them all…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago