The Personal Investor
The Personal Investor
With its approachable style and no-nonsense views, The Personal Investor is the essential weekly investing podcast for smart investors. Join Ed Monk as he explores investing, financial news, stock markets and economics. With his 360˚ view of the world of investment, Ed provides a well-balanced take on the latest developments together with expert insights to help you grow your capital, manage your…Social links:
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Market news today - America decides
Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson reviews the stories moving markets. This week in the markets: Investors watch nervously as a knife-edge US election approaches; markets settle after Rachel Reeves tax, spend and borrow Budget; central banks are expected to cut rates on both sides of the Atlantic; and highl…
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Autumn Budget 2024: Labour’s big tax gamble
This week, we are reacting, of course, to the Budget - the first of this Labour government and historically significant in its scale. What are the stories revealed in the numbers that the Chancellor didn’t tell us from the dispatch box this week? And where does it all leave our finances? Popular …
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Market news today - politics in focus
Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson reviews the stories moving markets. This week in the markets: politics is in the spotlight as the UK prepares for a big tax-raising budget; America heads towards a crucial Presidential election; and Japan punishes the ruling LDP party.
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Market news today - can the winning streak go on?
Fidelity’s Ed Monk reviews the stories moving markets. This week in the markets: Around a fifth of companies in the S&P 500 are due to report this week, likely testing the market’s six week-long winning streak as gold surges and UK investors brace for incoming tax rises at the Budget next week.
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The Bull Run is two years old - will it make three?
This week, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the stock market bull run. And with share prices breaking new ground seemingly as each week passes, investors will be celebrating too - but can the party last? That’s the focus today, as well as the latest ups and downs in markets. Host, Ed Mo…
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