@FT Senior Markets Correspondent. I previously covered insurance
London
Joined February 2010
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🚨I'm starting a new job today as the FT's Senior Markets Correspondent #delighted
Keen to talk rates/FX and big global capital-markets stories, do get in touch at [email protected]
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Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Thursday 19 December on.ft.com/3DjIbIL
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I'll be covering the Insurance beat at the @FT from November 25, until our replacement for the esteemed @iankmsmith is appointed. Got a story? Email [email protected]
Trump's election victory is reshaping global markets today, as expectations for tariffs, lower US taxes and other Trump policies reorder global stocks, bonds and currencies
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Euro weakens particularly
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US and European bond markets diverge
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Bitcoin record high
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Stock winners/losers. Banks up, renewables down
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Our analysis of gilts' wobbly week –
Investors say it's not Truss 2.0, but the Budget has introduced a "fiscal risk premium" into gilts.
Which could reduce the government's room for manoeuvre
ft.com/content/ae73cfba-b9c4… with colleagues inc @HClarfelt
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Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Friday 1 November on.ft.com/4e46DdG
“Sometimes it’s a small door and we all try and run out that same door"
How shifting economic data and an emerging "Trump trade" shook up Treasuries and rippled through global markets
By @HClarfelt + me
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Rachel Reeves confirms change to UK fiscal rules to help fund £20bn investment ft.com/content/091ca9be-e18b… via @ft
The US dollar has rallied strongly this month, fuelled by stronger economic data and an emerging 'Trump trade' as former president's election odds narrow ft.com/content/5f545c98-cfd2…
Priced for perfection? US credit spreads tighten dramatically. By @HClarfelt @double_you_ess + me
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The missing ingredient?
Advent International prepares takeover bid for Tate & Lyle
FT scoop from the team:
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"It seems that the US economy is once again defying gravity"
Divergent US/eurozone economic fortunes play out in currency markets
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France's proposed budget has not quelled bond market anxiety about its fiscal + political challenges
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Must-read journalism
I spent 5 months investigating the role of a British accountant, a London broker and a Dubai-based British shipping magnate in at least 25 tankers bought for Lukoil’s Eiger Shipping, in an effort to lift the veil on Russia’s shadow fleet
Hope you read it on.ft.com/3BFQBt5
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SCOOP: Steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta prosecuted over failure to file accounts ft.com/content/4406f079-90c8… via @ft @BondHack
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Private credit lender HPS is in talks with asset managers to sell itself. It's also running an IPO process. But is it slow walking that IPO? Some investors view a delay as a sign the process is mainly being used as a way to test HPS's valuation for a sale
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The market is "still lurching from one narrative to the other on an almost weekly basis"
Volatility in the $27tn US Treasury market surges as investors adjust interest rates bets
Latest by @jennhughes13 + me
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“Rachel Reeves needs to walk a tightrope, otherwise the gilt market will limit her ability to deliver much of Labour’s agenda”
The UK’s long-term borrowing costs ratchet up, investors anxious about path of fiscal policy. Today’s story with @Sam1Fleming on.ft.com/3ZWIZfU
"I am stunned by how quickly this storm has intensified"
Read @MADarbyshire + @Alexandra7white on Hurricane Milton, on the heels of Hurricane Helene
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