The charts that matter: markets start to worry

With bond yields sliding this week as investors started to fret about global trade, John Stepek looks at the effect on the charts that matter most to the global economy.

Welcome back. The podcast has finally returned this week! We recorded it before Theresa May stepped down but the writing was on the wall, so we've had a bit of a natter about who might replace her, what it might mean for Brexit, and how it affects the odds of a government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Oh and we also take a look at what it might mean for sterling. Please do have a listen here.

And as I mention on the podcast, if you haven't yet caught up on our new weekly column, Currency Corner (in association with currency specialists OFX), then check it out now. This week, Dominic Frisby looks at the most important currency in the world (by a long way) - the US dollar.

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John Stepek

John Stepek is a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and a former editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in psychology in 1996 and has always been fascinated by the gap between the way the market works in theory and the way it works in practice, and by how our deep-rooted instincts work against our best interests as investors.

He started out in journalism by writing articles about the specific business challenges facing family firms. In 2003, he took a job on the finance desk of Teletext, where he spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news.

His work has been published in Families in Business, Shares magazine, Spear's Magazine, The Sunday Times, and The Spectator among others. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Radio Scotland, Newsnight, Daily Politics and Bloomberg. His first book, on contrarian investing, The Sceptical Investor, was released in March 2019. You can follow John on Twitter at @john_stepek.