Unhedged

Katie Martin, Robert Armstrong and other markets nerds at the Financial Times explain the big ideas behind what’s happening in finance right now. Every Tuesday and Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unhedged

Up to 10 minutes

Introducing Untold: The Retreat

While preparing your breakfast

Up to 15 minutes

The diamond market disrupted

Active changes to passive indices

High interest rate anxiety

Shopify vs Amazon

Two stock markets, two takes

Cash rethink energises asset markets

The return of crypto

A drastic solution to exploding US government debt

Up to 20 minutes

Are emerging markets back?

Is the China stimulus package enough?

Immigration and unemployment

Federal Reserve puts on enormous party hat

Boring but sexy (stocks)

The case for Tesla

Will a major revision of listing rules in the UK work?

Investing in green tech

Paramount, Skydance and the streaming wars

The gamma squeeze

Where’s the commercial property meltdown?

The cocoa boom

Bridgewater’s new boss

GameStop again?

The fight for Paramount

Is Fed policy working?

Why the US dollar is the world’s problem

How oil got to $90 a barrel

Should we worry about private credit?

Rethinking Tesla and Apple

Wall Street bets on Reddit

The great British bargain show

Can the US stock market stand 3% US inflation?

Does factor investing still work?

Inside the traders’ black box

Learning to love the boom

Three markets, three highs

WeWork rework

Active investors! Assemble

The dilemma of the supercompany

Are dividends back?

High-yield bond bonanza

Will commercial real estate hurt regional banks?

Can China rebound in 2024?

Boardroom games

Is America overpriced?

Today's inflation numbers

Tech stock winners

Cool markets, hot takes

The year ahead, according to AI, and humans

Markets gone wild

Thirty-seven years of wisdom

Central bank lookahead

Gold just set a record. Why?

Down the liquidity hole

Have rates peaked?

What the London Stock Exchange really trades

The zombie companies

What does Walmart know?

Nice duration for a walk

Up to 30 minutes

The $2tn man

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and the GLP-1 economy

Markets send mixed signals

The case for small and mid caps

What is Apollo, anyway?

How Ireland got too much money

The Fed: will it be 25 or 50?

How to fix the housing market

The ethics of investing for dictators

The gold rally

What’s up with Bill Ackman?

Anatomy of a rout

Why Wall Street picked Kamala Harris

How to manipulate the US dollar

The Trump trade