• January 22 2025
  UnhedgedRobert Armstrong

  No volatility in volatile times Premium content

  And our stock picking contest results

  
• January 2 2025
  FirstFT

  FirstFT quiz: the week in news

  Ten topical questions to test your news nous

  
• December 27 2024
  Personal Finance

  What’s the biggest financial mistake you’ve ever made?

  FT writers and readers confess their money blunders, bad investments and inane purchases

  
• December 11 2024
  Financial ThinkingJonathan Guthrie

  Accurately predicting the next crash is impossible

  But we can weather downturns better by controlling our own biases

  
• November 19 2024
  The doomsday that wasn’t

  VIXplaining the events of August 5

  
• November 19 2024
  Equities

  European stocks fall as Ukraine war escalation unsettles markets

  US Treasuries rally as investors sell equities and seek safe assets

  
• November 8 2024
  US economy

  US economy could ‘overheat’ under Trump, warns bond giant Pimco

  CIO Dan Ivascyn says interest rate cuts could be paused and stocks look vulnerable after post-election rally

  
• November 5 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  The hour between donkey and elephant

  Godspeed to traders manning desks tonight 🫡

  
• November 5 2024
  Volatility is being weird

  Unpacking the unusual spread between implied and realised vol

  
• November 4 2024
  Capital markets

  Traders braced for volatility and volume as US election night nears

  Banks plan staggered shifts and downtown hotel rooms for suburb dwellers to staff floors around tight race outcome

  
• November 1 2024
  Political risk and investment

  Investors step up bets that US election will trigger market volatility

  Jitters sweep through bond and currency markets before presidential vote

  
• October 30 2024
  Financial ThinkingJonathan Guthrie

  Learn from those missed investment opportunities

  How I missed the boat on OpenAI, BrewDog and BT

  
• October 25 2024
  US Treasury bonds

  Treasuries sell-off reverberates through global markets

  Volatility returns ahead of US election as government debt is hit by stronger economic data

  
• October 21 2024
  New titans of Wall Street — an FT series

  How Susquehanna’s Jeff Yass mastered the options game

  Obsession with odds spawned a trading giant — and shaped the industry’s approach to markets

  
• October 9 2024
  US Treasury bonds

  Treasury market volatility surges as investors rethink interest rate bets

  Bond traders brace for inflation data on Thursday after jobs figures smashed expectations

  
• October 2 2024
  Global inflation

  Central banks must stay on inflation alert in era of volatility, says BIS

  Conflicts, climate change and trade disputes may require ‘forceful’ rate rises in future, says Basel-based body

  
• October 1 2024
  Derivatives

  Investors turn to volatility trades to profit from tight US election

  Traders opt for complex derivative bets instead of predicting who will win, as November vote takes centre stage in markets

  
• September 24 2024
  Capital markets

  Treasury market liquidity: fine but fragile?

  Skating on thin ice

  
• September 10 2024
  Equities

  Volatility, thy name (probably isn’t) leveraged ETF

  A look at some pesky rebalancing flows

  
• September 8 2024
  Corporate bonds

  Companies issue record level of US debt to avoid market turbulence and election risk

  Flurry of investment-grade bond deals as investors prepare for a potentially volatile autumn

  
• September 4 2024
  Equities

  Global stocks slide as fears mount over US growth

  Market turbulence driven by fears of potential US economic slowdown and fall in Nvidia shares

  
• August 21 2024
  Katie Martin

  Whatever happened to the wisdom of the bond market?

  This supposedly brainy sector has been displaying memestock-like tendencies for a while now

  
• August 19 2024
  US equities

  Investors pile back into equities amid ‘full recovery’ in market confidence

  Deutsche bank data shows rapid recovery in confidence as markets bet on ‘Goldilocks’ scenario for US economy

  
• August 17 2024
  US equities

  Traders wary of renewed Wall Street volatility

  Benchmark tracking investors’ fear of fear trades above long-term averages

  
• August 12 2024
  US equities

  Wall Street’s ‘fear gauge’ might be lying to you about last week’s market turmoil

  VIXed feelings