Senior Markets Correspondent at the Financial Times. Previously insurance, finance, stocks, pensions, you get the idea. This is my real account: I never promote crypto or any other investment Stories: https://www.ft.com/ian-smith Contact: ian.smith@ft.com
Great piece by @tobyn.bsky.social including the Q we are all thinking about this Friday afternoon
The Bank of England gets with the programme on QTFour years on, Threadneedle Street finally agrees with the marketwww.ft.comweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 🎢 www.ft.com/content/0f9b...
happy Friday www.ft.com/content/18a1...
“The jawboning that we have seen has [had] little sustained impact. That warrants action....” Investors warn Bank of Japan faces test to inflation-fighting credibility as.ft.com/r/41fc7faa-8...
Investors warn Bank of Japan faces test to inflation-fighting credibilityFriday’s meeting on interest rates will be closely watched for signs of future policy decisionsas.ft.comYou think you’re Maradona but maybe you’re Nani
Dario Perkinseveryone is citing "Maradona central banking". But Mervyn King had a deep disdain for markets. In his analogy, the market was a hapless England defender, falling at the feet of central-banker genius. Warsh is saying the opposite - that markets are omniscient
Fed's no-guidance going well... Kevin Warsh’s stripped-back Fed communication 'already backfiring', say investors as.ft.com/r/d3931d85-4... 300 clicks free
Big old steepening in the US yield curve as the Fed holds rates steady despite inflation threat www.ft.com/content/0f9a...
Max Stranger Things RunALT: Max Stranger Things Runstatic.klipy.comseems a lovely place to work www.ft.com/content/730e...
Who needs tech anyway? The plucky FTSE 100 rises to an all-time high www.ft.com/content/2e30...
FTSE 100 hits all-time high as ‘anti-tech’ index shines in global chip routBanks and oil companies power UK stocks’ rebound from Iran war sell-offwww.ft.com"guys are you 100% sure we pitched this one right" www.ft.com/content/8e82...
Chinese chip champion CXMT soars 466% in market debutTech group briefly becomes China’s most valuable listed company in mainland’s biggest IPO since 2010www.ft.coma bit of breathing space for government bond markets, UK 10-year yield dips back below 5% www.ft.com/content/4036...
Oil falls more than 7% as Iran and US pause strikes over Strait of HormuzBrent lower after two weeks of escalating violence had pushed crude to more than $100 a barrelwww.ft.com"Events in the Middle East are narrowing the government’s room for manoeuvre" A combination of higher borrowing costs as oil prices rise, new spending commitments and weaker growth forecasts are whittling away at the fiscal headroom 300 free clicks for our weekend splash as.ft.com/r/537e0d3d-b...
Fiscal headroom be like John Healey is under mounting pressure to raise taxes or find fresh savings as new spending commitments and the Middle East war threaten to shrink the chancellor’s fiscal buffer to as little as £7bn as.ft.com/r/db6e826f-1...
Hardpretzel Hard PretzelALT: Hardpretzel Hard Pretzelstatic.klipy.comCrazy stat "Fraud accounts for 46 per cent of all crime in England and Wales, yet only 2 per cent of resources are dedicated to it, Adams said." it is remarkable how little we seem to do about fraud, from the gazillion little fraudulent motor claims to the big stuff www.ft.com/content/f0f7...
Senior City of London Police officer urges Burnham to be ‘loud’ on fraudFunding must be made a priority to tackle the UK’s most prevalent crimewww.ft.com
