The charts that matter: the US election sends markets… soaring? 

The uncertainty surrounding the US election has led many to believe that the Federal Reserve will print even more money. John Stepek looks at how that's affected the charts that matter the most to the global economy.

Happy birthday to us! It was MoneyWeek’s 20th birthday earlier this week (our very first issue came out on 4 November 2000, slap bang in the middle of another disputed US election).

While everyone is focused on the short term of who will be president, we’re looking well ahead of that – to what will be the biggest investment themes of the next 20 years. We talk about everything from Britain’s green revolution to quantum computing to the five funds to buy and hold for the next two decades.

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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.