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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, 5 November, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    Do the markets even care about the US election?

    A look at prices and polling

  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    The Long ViewUS presidential election 2024
    The problem with the Trump trade

    Speculative hedge funds are placing bets but other investors have been more cautious

    Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak during a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The titans of Wall Street

    How a secretive group of firms came to dominate trading

  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    The Long ViewEmerging markets
    Emerging markets are having a moment

    US interest rate cuts spur reassessment of asset class and bolster its allure

    People walk outside the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    The Fed should beware declaring the war on inflation over prematurely

    Wobbles in the bond market suggest investors think the US central bank turned too dovish too soon

    US Savings Bonds
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    FT Asset Management
    The AI disruption coming for CIOs

    Plus, CIA interrogation techniques, UK investors warming up to remuneration and nerves in French government bonds

    Silhouettes of office workers under a banner saying AI: artificial intelligence
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    The Long ViewGold
    Golden times for gold fans

    Prices for the metal have shot up this year even as inflation risks have receded, prompting calls to give it more respect

    Montage image of gold bars and coins with a line chart and yellow boxes overlaid
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    Markets send mixed signals

    Can rate cuts and good jobs numbers both happen?

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    The Long ViewAsia-Pacific equities
    China’s stock rally for the ages shows power of crowds

    Market shunned by foreign investors suddenly skyrockets

    Montage of Chinese flag with bar chart design overlaid
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Markets keep calm despite global tensions

    Investor confidence is proving to be very hard to shake

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast16 min listen
    Markets and the Middle East

    Markets are shrugging off conflict in the Middle East. Will that last?

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Markets
    The market reaction to global tensions might not follow the old script

    Even the dollar, which usually surges at times of geopolitical crisis, is showing only a modest pick-up

    Traders work at Bloomberg terminals on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast17 min listen
    Is the China stimulus package enough?

    After Beijing announced plans to support equities, markets took off

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    The Long ViewUS equities
    The case for a melt-up in markets

    Investors appear to be setting aside worries since the Fed’s big rate cut

    Pedestrians walks past the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast19 min listen
    Immigration and unemployment

    How does the influx of immigrants affect US jobs numbers?

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The case for small and mid caps

    Smaller stocks used to outperform their bigger cousins. Will that ever be the case again?

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    The Long ViewAsset allocation
    Has Powell just triggered a dash out of cash?

    Analysts have long predicted some $6tn held in US money market funds might move into riskier assets like equities

    A television on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows news of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast19 min listen
    Federal Reserve puts on enormous party hat

    Unpacking Wednesday’s big rate cut

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Market speculation about the next Fed rate cut masks deeper issues

    Even so, perma-critics of the US central bank are cracking their knuckles in anticipation

    Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    The Long ViewAsia-Pacific equities
    China out in the cold for foreign investors

    Sentiment towards the country’s stock markets has become increasingly pessimistic

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    How Ireland got too much money

    Dublin is running a huge budget surplus. What should the government do with it?

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    The Long ViewUK equities
    Being boring now is paying off for UK stocks

    As investors take a harder look at the razzle dazzle of tech shares, there is more of a case to buy British

    View of London streets from top of St Paul’s cathedral
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Capital markets
    Europe’s failure to keep pace on corporate bonds is baked in

    Part of the problem is that investors on the continent just aren’t interested in small deals

    Mairead McGuinness
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    The Long ViewUS equities
    Why a cooling of the Nvidia party might be no bad thing for US stocks

    Investor attention may focus more on the broader market, which is in fine fettle

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The gold rally

    The metal has climbed way past the rate of inflation. Why?

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