Somewhere in New York this year, a professional tennis player lost their very first match at the US Open, packed up, and went home a hundred and forty thousand dollars richer. Not the champion. Not even close to the champion. Someone whose entire tournament lasted a single afternoon. That number stopped me, and the more […]
The Tennis Player Who Lost Round One and Still Made $140,000 Read More »
The Afternoon It Started I was halfway through making a coffee on Friday afternoon when my phone did the thing it does when a price alert goes off twice in ten minutes. I already knew what it meant before I looked. Somewhere in Wyoming, a man in a suit had started talking, and bitcoin had
The Speech That Cost Bitcoin Three Per cent in an Afternoon Read More »
The FCA opens its crypto authorisation window on 30 September. What changes for a UK holder, what does not, and what to check. Do you know what to do with your crypto platform in the next 14 months? I ask because a date has been set, it has been set in law, and almost nobody
The Crypto Deadline Nobody Has Diarised Read More »
The SEC votes on Friday to open its first formal crypto rulebook. Why the plumbing gets built when nobody is watching the price. The most consequential thing happening in crypto this week has nothing to do with the price. On Friday, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission meets to vote on opening a proposal
The Rules Get Written on Friday Read More »
The US jobs report lands Friday and will move markets worldwide. Last month it showed unemployment falling by half a million fewer people had jobs. Why One Number Tomorrow Moves Everything And why the honest response is to ignore it At half past eight on Friday morning New York time, the US Bureau of Labour
Why One Number Tomorrow Moves Everything Read More »
The US Clarity Act has the votes in theory, yet an ethics provision is keeping it off the Senate floor. Here is where the bill stands and why the ethics fight matters more than the technical details. I have watched enough regulatory sagas to recognise the moment when a bill stops being about market structure
The Ethics Argument That Is Holding Clarity Hostage Read More »
Brent crude has slipped under $80 on hopes the Strait of Hormuz may reopen. Here is the practical effect on fuel, bills and the room in an ordinary budget. I have learned to treat oil headlines the way I treat weather forecasts. They matter, they change, and the useful question is never “what does the
Oil Below Eighty. What It Means at the Pump Read More »
Someone sent me a screenshot last week. Big green numbers, a celebratory headline, the kind of message that lands in a group chat and immediately splits the room. “Did you see?” Yes, I saw. Bitcoin just posted its best monthly performance since this time last year. And I say this with genuine warmth: that is
Bitcoin Just Had Its Best Month in a Year. So What. Read More »
New US tariffs of 10 to 12.5 per cent hit 60 trading partners today, including Britain. Here is how a trade measure reaches your household budget. I bought a coat once that took eleven weeks to arrive. It came from a small maker abroad, and somewhere between the order and the doorstep it met a
The Tariffs Landed This Morning. Now What? Read More »
A new Prime Minister, a surprise Chancellor and gilt yields above five per cent. What markets actually did this week, and what they are waiting for. I once sold a holding on the morning of a political announcement, feeling terribly decisive about it, and bought it back eleven days later at a higher price, having
Three Days In, the Bond Market Is Waiting Read More »
