The charts that matter: it’s starting to look a little unhinged out there

Things aren't normal in the markets right now, says John Stepek. Here, he looks at the charts that matter most to the global economy for clues to what's going.

Welcome back. If you haven’t put the date in your diary yet, remember to keep Friday 22 May free for our big investment event – you really won’t want to miss it. More news on that shortly – we’re lining up the speakers even as I type.

On the podcast front meanwhile – this week I interviewed Dominic Frisby about his new book Daylight Robbery. If you haven’t bought it yet, you should. Dominic has written a page-turner about tax, which you would have thought impossible. You can hear more about it – and more about his wishlist for next month’s Budget – right here.

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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.