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Katie Martin

Markets Columnist

Katie Martin is a columnist and member of the FT's editorial board. She writes the weekly Long View column on market trends as well as other opinion pieces, and appears weekly on the Unhedged podcast.

Previously, she spent four years as the FT's markets editor, and also several years on the FT's live news service. Prior to joining the FT in 2015, she spent 11 years at the Dow Jones/Wall St Journal group, also covering markets.

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  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    UnhedgedUS Treasury bonds
    Musk and markets: why Doge is not cutting through Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, JD Vance gives investors something other than tariffs to chew on for a change

    Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    The Long ViewEuropean equities
    Ukraine peace dividend spurs Europe’s stock rally

    The pessimists are on the back foot amid one of the strongest starts to any year in the region since 1987

    Bear and bull statues stand outside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast26 min listen
    The other side of trade

    A look at tariffs outside the US

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast25 min listen
    Why is gold buggin’?

    What do record highs for the metal mean?

  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    The Long ViewUS politics & policy
    Trump should not take bond investors for granted

    It needs only a small reduction in the dollar slice of global reserves to hit prices and raise borrowing costs

    The trader has “Trump” mats, stickers and a newspaper cutting around his workstation. His glasses are perched on his forehead
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    How to trade the trade war

    Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but were still caught off guard

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    Will Trump’s tariffs make Europe great again?

    Stock indices in the UK and Germany have recently hit record highs

  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    What’s next for Trump’s tariffs?

    The initial market reaction was relatively mild. Future reactions may not be.

  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Markets InsightTrump tariffs
    Stock vigilantes might have to work harder to tame Trump

    US president likely to take reaction to tariff rises as a win

    Donald Trump on a TV screen
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    The Long ViewMarkets
    Trump’s MEGA effect on European markets

    US not so exceptional amid a strong start to year for equities on both sides of the Atlantic

    A montage of the bronze bear sculpture outside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the LSE logo, Euro notes and Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast23 min listen
    DeepSeek, AI and the markets

    China joins the AI race, and rattles investors

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Equities
    DeepSeek and the dollar are spoiling ‘Trump trades’

    If it turns out the moat around US tech stocks is not as deep as investors had hoped, the AI fairytale will unravel

    The DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    The Long ViewCapital markets
    Animal spirits in markets risk running too far

    Giddy investors have pushed up stocks in one of the stronger opening months to any year in the past decade

    US President Donald Trump displayed on a television during a news broadcast on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast25 min listen
    Decoding Trumponomics

    Investors are trying to figure out an unusual number of policies and powerplays

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    Our 2024 stock picks

    Going over last year’s winners … and our losers

  • Saturday, 18 January, 2025
    The Long ViewAsset allocation
    Bond wobble underscores allure of cash

    The asset class has proven far stickier than most big fund managers anticipated

    Montage of Fed building and dollar bills
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    Political Fix podcast43 min listen
    Reeves vs the markets

    Plus, how Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey have kicked off 2025

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Gilts
    Bond vigilantes are overexcited (again)

    It remains very hard to argue that anything meaningful has changed in the UK

    Traders on the floor of the London International futures exchange in 1992
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    What are UK bonds thinking?

    Is Britain mismanaged, or just copying the US markets?

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    The Long ViewGilts
    Gilts take the global strain

    As yields rise around the globe, UK government bonds have been put in a difficult place

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves giving a speech at a Labour party conference in September 2024
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    The year ahead: tariffs, taxes and Trump

    2025 is filled with questions and it’s just beginning

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Markets
    This will be the year of investing dangerously

    Investors have no clue what the returning President Trump will actually do

    Jerome Powell and President elect Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast24 min listen
    The listeners have questions

    And the hosts have some answers

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast19 min listen
    The Bitcoin National Strategic wha?

    Is Trump really planning a national strategic reserve for crypto?

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Year in a word: Memecoin

    The crypto craze celebrates the silliness of digital assets linked to the ephemera of social media

    A selection of crypto coins
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