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March 27, 2023
Shock, horror there was no big bank disaster over the weekend. Maybe they're stabilising, for now they look ok and SVB has found a buyer in First Citizens Bank. However, a sector of banks does look particularly exposed to US…
March 20, 2023
Well another week, another bank failure! Credit Suisse had to be bailed out over the weekend; ultimately selling to Switzerland's UBS for $3bn (its value in December was $50bn). Despite the Swiss Central bank guaranteeing ov…
March 13, 2023
When Powell set out his tough tone at the semi-annual hearings last week he couldn't have foreseen the hotter than expected jobs numbers (again!) on Friday or the run on Silicon Valley Bank. The markets were already reeling …
March 6, 2023
Airlines and Energy, how China manufacturing has picked up at its fastest rate in a decade, the two tier impact of inflation, trucking as a career, Foxconn moving to India, tax regimes and business creation, the AI threat to…
Feb. 28, 2023
We're a day later than usual but don't worry we have all the top financial news as we try and make sense of everything that is happening in the business world. This week we cover topics ranging from Bezos' testosterone makeo…
Feb. 20, 2023
It's Presidents' day and we use the downtime to bring you a fully packed show. Hot topics for this week include AI hallucinations, Musk boosting his own tweets, Biden in Ukraine, property in New York City, Cobalt mines, luxu…
Feb. 13, 2023
The markets dropped last week as they absorbed the previous week's rate hike and the continuing hawkish message from the Fed. Hot topics for this week include those dastardly balloons (again!), tunnels that are too small, Go…
Feb. 6, 2023
The Fed delivered the expected 0.25% interest rate rise last week but what was not expected were the poor earnings results from Alphabet, Amazon and Apple or the sky high non-farm payroll numbers on Friday. Along with the Ch…
Jan. 30, 2023
It's a Fed Meeting week so all eyes will be on the interest rate decision on Wednesday. Then on Thursday we have 29% of the Nasdaq reporting, so it's a big week for investors and analysts. But before that there is still plen…
Jan. 19, 2023
We're into Earnings season and the big banks have reported their 2022 Q4 numbers and outlook for 2023. So far he start to 2023 is similar to the end of 2022: the markets are nervous and looking for one or more pieces of data…
Jan. 18, 2023
It's 2023 and what a great year for trading it has been already. We're very excited for the prospects this year holds and of course to get back into the swing of rolling bananas! And there is a lot going on already! We cover…
Dec. 19, 2022
2022 is almost finished and here we have the rolling bananas wrap (don't worry, nobody is singing!). So in a year when the bull market ended, crypto went bad, tech stocks lost their shirts, spacs were a thing, meme stocks ap…
Dec. 12, 2022
It was a another news packed week last week and here we give you our bite sized analysis and tips in a simple weekly does. PPI Data on Friday was stronger than expected causing the markets to reverse some of their recent gai…
Dec. 5, 2022
Another week and more bitesize updates to keep you up to speed with the world of business and finance. Plus we give you those little life hacks to make you richer. On Friday the markets were surprised by the jobs data that …
Nov. 28, 2022
Another week and some more bitesize updates to keep you up to speed with the world of business and finance. Plus we give you those little life hacks to make yourself richer. This week we see how China's approach to covid is…
Nov. 21, 2022
We're here to keep you up to date with the world of business and finance and give you those little life hacks to make yourself richer. This week we see Bob Iger back at Disney, show you how to make savings on subscriptions, …
Nov. 14, 2022
Here is your weekly update of the key finance and business stories. We're here to keep you safe in the financial markets so message us with any questions that you have. Last week was a crazy week including the biggest one d…
Nov. 7, 2022
Here is your weekly update of the key finance and business stories. We're here to keep you safe in the financial markets so message us with any questions that you have. This week we cover everything from the business of spe…
Nov. 1, 2022
We're here to keep you safe in the financial markets and bring you your weekly update of the top global financial news. This week we cover the huge write down of tech stocks in a rising market, why rich people are killing th…
Oct. 24, 2022
We're here to keep you safe in the financial markets and bring you your weekly update of the top global financial news. This week we cover the everything from SNAP's decline, Musk's Twitter purchase, how to cheat at chess, …
Oct. 19, 2022
We're here to keep you safe in the financial markets and bring you your weekly update of the top global financial news. This week we cover the largest daily movement ever seen on the S&P, bank earnings performance, high hi…
Oct. 10, 2022
Welcome to your weekly update of the top global financial news. This week we seem to cover everything! From the Opec+ decision to the US jobs report, we ask what happened to SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies), w…
Oct. 3, 2022
Welcome to your weekly update of the top global financial news. This week interest rates loom large after the New UK Government fiasco. So we cover global interest rates, the impending earnings season and big tech layoffs…
Sept. 28, 2022
Welcome to your weekly update of the top global financial news. This week finds Mark in Bangalore, India. So we cover the Finance view from India (including gold), falling commodity prices, the danger of a strong dollar s…