Market news today - global unrest can’t shake market hopes
Fidelity’s Ed Monk reviews the stories moving markets. In the markets this week: Oil and gold react to Syria and South Korea unrest, but US market hopes grow for 2025
Who should really be the target of Inheritance Tax?
This week - is Inheritance Tax about to move from being a rich person’s problem to something many more ordinary people have to worry about? Planned changes are expected to significantly widen the net of Inheritance Tax. Will you be affected and where will IHT hit hardest? That’s the focus today,…
Market news today - the market view of Trump 2.0
Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson reviews the stories moving markets. In the markets this week: reading the scorecard, a month on from the US election; and France briefly pays more to borrow than Greece.
3 lessons from the past 25 years and cash returns in 2025
3 lessons from the past 25 years and cash returns in 2025 This week, how do you assess the first quarter of the 21st century in investment terms? Luckily Tom Stevenson has had a front row seat for all of it and joins us to answer that question. And then we’ll ask what the future holds for cash sa…
Market news today - Trump Trade turns into Santa Rally
Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson reviews the stories moving markets. This week in the markets: inflation is the main focus ahead of December’s rate-setting meetings; and continuing US leadership is the consensus view as investors settle on their 2025 Outlooks.
Is the UK economy about to catch a cold?
This week, with the world changing around it, what kind of shape is the UK economy in? The latest updates on growth were disappointing, and there may be more difficult news to come on inflation and interest rates. What does that mean for our finances, the Government’s accounts, and the stock marke…
Market news today - 1998 all over again?
Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson reviews the stories moving markets. This week in the markets: investors position themselves for Trump 2.0 nearly two weeks after the Presidential election.
Help! I missed the ‘Trump Bump’
This week - did you miss the ‘Trump Trade’? And if you did, and with markets surging all over the place, is FOMO setting in? We're focusing today on the prospects for investing money after Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential Election - especially for those who have been sat on the sideli…
Market news today - weighing up the Trump Bump
Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson reviews the stories moving markets. This week in the markets: US investors assess the Trump bump; the UK weighs up Rachel Reeves’s Budget; and China stimulus disappoints.
Are investors right to cheer Trump's victory?
This week, we’re reacting - along with the rest of the world - to the Donald Trump victory in the US Presidential Election. Not all the permutations are known - at time of recording at least - but the direction of travel is not in doubt. Four more years of Trump and a powerful mandate to deliver o…