Bitcoin and Gold this year. #markets #investing #investors #bitcoin #gold @financialtimes.com

🇺🇸🇳🇬 Donald Trump says US struck Isis targets in Nigeria over attacks on Christians FT www.ft.com/content/f095...

⚽ 🚀 I should be surprised by Fifa’s World Cup ticket pricing but I'm not... FT www.ft.com/content/3c9c... #Fifa #WorldCup2026 #football

🇬🇧 I was not expecting that… The Bank of England is on TikTok, with governor Andrew Bailey “answering your questions”

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Crucially, “Oracle will oversee the algorithm that recommends videos in users’ feeds” and that’s the secret sauce that has made the Chinese network so successful www.ft.com/content/7a77...

🇺🇸 Tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing to the US but there's little evidence of that yet... FT www.ft.com/content/17a1...

🇰🇳 Can't fathom why billionaires get a bad rap... 🤔 "Destiny is part of a trend in which wealthy figures in technology and crypto try to establish their own, more libertarian, territories, known as the 'network state' movement," writes @joshspero.ft.com FT www.ft.com/content/cd17...

New🍿📉: Netflix originals are now rated lower than rivals on IMDb — although things have improved since 2022 (funnily enough, I think I cancelled my subscription that year). Interactive version here if you want to see the individual titles: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Rates traders position for a turn in the cycle, with hikes beginning to be priced for several big economies next year. US increasingly looks the outlier as.ft.com/r/c5f820a3-6...

US widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes—“US growth is largely dependent right now on AI and AI-related capex driving wealth,” said Rebecca Patterson, a senior fellow… www.ft.com/content/8beb... @senojerialc.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Per the FT: “An Atlanta Federal Reserve analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that, after years of above-trend growth, pay for America’s lowest earners has slowed more sharply than for the highest.” And this as the US labor market risks weakening further. #economy #wages #inequality

America’s widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes on.ft.com/4rzRNDE

🇺🇸 US private employers shed 32k jobs in November November's slowdown was "led by a pullback among small businesses", said Dr Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120k jobs -- the largest one-month decline since May 2020 FT www.ft.com/content/7d41...

🇺🇸 Republican Matt Van Epps wins Tennessee House race but by a reduced margin Trump carried the seat by 22 percentage points a little over a year ago NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

🇬🇧 Pro-Brexit newspaper makes (partial) U-turn? Warner's words aren't quite the climbdown the headline suggests, with lines like "... its economic opportunities have so far been squandered". Still, the column marks a rare admission of #Brexit’s failures Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

🇬🇧 Reeves avoids a Truss moment UK gilts rallied after today’s Budget. The 30-year yield dropped 11bps, its biggest daily fall since April, after the Debt Management Office said it would issue less long-dated debt FT www.ft.com/content/d0a5... #Budget2025 #Gilts #UKEconomy #RachelReeves

🇬🇧 One of the best comments beneath Ganesh's column "The Labour government will deteriorate from here" FT www.ft.com/content/68ee...

🇺🇸 Always thought Kugler’s departure seemed odd… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/b...

🇬🇧 UK unemployment rate rises more than expected to 5% Figures are a setback for government ahead of high-stakes Budget FT www.ft.com/content/cabf...

🇬🇧 If you really want to understand what’s going on inside the BBC, this podcast episode is an essential listen Hosted by ex-Beeb insiders @lewisgoodall.com, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & Emily Maitlis Very revealing Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Global www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Trump responds to Tim Davie resigning as BBC boss FT www.ft.com/content/ccc0...

power, data and birds on the loneliest road in america: www.ft.com/content/729d...

🇺🇸 US consumer sentiment drops to its lowest level since June 2022 -- and the sharpest fall comes from Republicans FT www.ft.com/content/a864... #ConsumerSentiment #USPolitics #Economy

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

quite a chart from WashPost www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🇬🇧 I know this is rage bait but still... The Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/...

🇳🇬🇺🇸 Trump threatens Nigeria with military action over violence against Christians FT www.ft.com/content/d0c7...

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa. Black River — near total destruction.

🚨 Gold momentum gauge was flashing red The RSI has been in overbought territory (>70) for weeks, a classic warning sign that the gold rally may have run out of steam For some goldbugs, this confirmed the price was ripe for its recent correction FT www.ft.com/content/d6c0... #Gold #Markets #RSI

🇺🇸 Tesla chair warns Musk could quit if shareholders reject $1tn pay deal 🚗 'Robyn Denholm urges investors to support billionaire chief’s package ahead of crucial November 6 vote' FT www.ft.com/content/81fe... #Musk #Tesla #ElonMusk

Lovely, informative column by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, the FT’s architecture critic, on Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing FT www.ft.com/content/8564...

🇺🇸 Beyond Meat shares surge 🚀 Shares in the shorted maker of plant-based burgers and sausages have leapt since Friday, echoing the meme stock mania of 2021 BYND is currently the top trending ticker on Stocktwits #BYND #BeyondMeat

🇺🇸 Netflix shares down more than 6% in after-hours trading Streamer reported an operating margin of 28%, below guidance of 31.5%, owing to a $619mn expense from a dispute with Brazilian tax authorities FT www.ft.com/content/3fba...

French police have released CCTV of the suspect in the Louvre robbery

🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia "US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting" FT www.ft.com/content/7960...

'The motto in markets right now is “shut up and take my money”, as the fear of missing out seeps into almost every major asset class. Nowhere is that clearer than in corporate bonds.’ www.ft.com/content/bf28...

Asked whether the FT’s calculations on his family’s profits were broadly accurate, Eric Trump said the true figure was “probably more”. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

🇺🇸 In lieu of today’s postponed US CPI release (now due Oct 24), here’s a look at what’s happened to US imported and domestic prices since Trump’s tariff announcements Tariffs reversed moderating retail prices 📊 H/T: “Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of US Tariffs” 🔗 www.hbs.edu/faculty/Page...

“I thought it was important to have something that physically exists, something you can actually hold in your hands" We dig into one of the markets stories of the year: gold mania www.ft.com/content/3401... Story by me, Leslie Hook, Harry Dempsey, data visualisation by @raydouglas.bsky.social

🇺🇸 OpenAI extends chip spending spree with multibillion-dollar Broadcom deal Deal could cost up to $500bn on top of start-up’s $1tn pledge for semiconductors and data centres Yet another circular AI deal... FT www.ft.com/content/bdaf...

🇺🇸 Broadcom up more than 12% pre-market OPENAI AND BROADCOM FORGE MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR CHIP DEVELOPMENT DEAL

🇺🇸 Cutting staff from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention in the middle of a public health crisis? 🤔 More than 1,000 CDC workers got layoff notices, just as the US faces its worst measles outbreak in decades. Some notices are now called ‘errors’ WaPo www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

🇳🇴 Nobel Institute probes leak of peace prize winner’s name The Nobel committee is supposedly super secret, a bastion of confidentiality and yet... 🤔 FT www.ft.com/content/afc7...

🇺🇸 US stocks fall after Trump threatens ‘massive’ tariffs on China President signals he may cancel planned meeting with Xi Jinping over critical minerals dispute FT www.ft.com/content/328e...

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans FT www.ft.com/content/678f...

🇪🇺 Pressure mounts on Belgium to unlock Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, reports @henryjfoy.ft.com Brussels holds €190bn via Euroclear, but PM Bart De Wever wants other EU countries to share the legal and financial risk of turning €140bn into a "reparations loan" FT www.ft.com/content/6c2d...

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Trump administration issues new "maximalist" demands for EU trade deal, reports @albertonardelli.bsky.social "EU officials view the requests as maximalist and the concessions as significant... " Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🔶 Gold price tops $4,000 for first time 🔶 The precious metal has soared more than 50% this year, driven by central banks buying bullion to diversify away from the dollar, as well as by investors who see gold as a hedge against inflation and widespread uncertainty FT www.ft.com/content/ed7f...

🇺🇸 AMD soars on OpenAI deal Chipmaker AMD surged after signing a deal with OpenAI for infrastructure that could generate billions of dollars in new revenue Deal comes just a fortnight after AMD’s rival, Nvidia, announced plans to invest $100bn in OpenAI FT www.ft.com/content/bfaf...