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Robert Armstrong

US Financial Commentator

Robert Armstrong is the FT’s US financial commentator and writes the Unhedged newsletter. Previously, he was the US financial editor, chief editorial writer and has also edited the FT’s Lex Column. Before becoming a journalist, he worked in finance and studied philosophy. You can sign up for a 30 day trial to the Unhedged newsletter here.
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Email Robert Armstrong @rbrtrmstrng  on X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • April 21 2026
    Unhedged Podcast24 min listen
    Trading disruption
    Reporting from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026
  • April 17 2026
    Markets
    What kind of rally is this?
    Plus Treasuries’ declining convenience yield
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 16 2026
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    Boing! Springtime for the markets
    Investors seem delighted, but why?
  • April 16 2026
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    Does AI want to be free?
    Plus, global imbalances and global crises
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 14 2026
    Unhedged Podcast24 min listen
    Space ecstasy
    SpaceX might be the biggest IPO ever
  • April 14 2026
    Markets
    Small caps revisited
    Index choice matters, and so do valuations
    Robert Armstrong
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    A trader gestures at multiple monitors displaying complex financial charts and data in a trading office.
  • April 13 2026
    US inflation
    Oil prices are a growth problem
    Plus, diversification is hard
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 10 2026
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    Why are small stocks outperforming?
    Plus more on the Strait of Hormuz toll
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 9 2026
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    What has changed?
    Can peace return the globe to order?
  • April 9 2026
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    The ceasefire bounce
    And the Hormuz bitcoin tollbooth
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 8 2026
    Markets
    Earnings expectations are too high
    Plus AI and jobs
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 7 2026
    Unhedged Podcast15 min listen
    Guns and butter and credit
    What the 1960s can teach us about our economy
  • April 7 2026
    Markets
    Don’t forget the Mag 7
    Still a third of the S&P 500 — and wobbling a bit
    Robert Armstrong
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  • April 6 2026
    Markets
    US employment: more sludge
    Plus, guns and butter redux
    Robert Armstrong
    Premium content
  • March 31 2026
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
     Is this social media's tobacco moment?
    The judgment against Meta and Google
  • March 31 2026
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    Inflation worries become growth worries
    A longer war makes long bonds interesting
    Robert Armstrong
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  • March 30 2026
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    Short rates have overshot
    Plus the social media lawsuits
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  • March 26 2026
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    The rout in UK and European bonds
    What rising yields mean for everyday people
  • March 25 2026
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    What’s moving long-term interest rates?
    Plus, US bank regulations
    Robert Armstrong
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  • March 25 2026
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Gold hasn’t been acting like itself lately
    The haven asset has fallen since the start of the war in Iran
  • March 24 2026
    Unhedged Podcast23 min listen
    Why are markets listening to Trump?
    The price of chasing the news
  • March 24 2026
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    Do markets believe the president?
    Plus, gold as unsafe haven
    Robert Armstrong
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  • March 20 2026
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    Interest rates take fright
    The market’s calm in the face of war is beginning to crack
    Robert Armstrong
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  • March 19 2026
    Unhedged Podcast19 min listen
    The Fed’s juggling act
    How will the US central bank handle inflation and a slowing economy?
  • March 19 2026
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    The Fed can only wait and wonder
    Plus, the stock market’s wartime reversal
    Robert Armstrong
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