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Katie Martin

Markets Columnist

Katie Martin is a columnist and member of the FT's editorial board. She writes the weekly Long View column on market trends as well as other opinion pieces, and appears weekly on the Unhedged podcast.

Previously, she spent four years as the FT's markets editor, and also several years on the FT's live news service. Prior to joining the FT in 2015, she spent 11 years at the Dow Jones/Wall St Journal group, also covering markets.

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  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast19 min listen
    The Bitcoin National Strategic wha?

    Is Trump really planning a national strategic reserve for crypto?

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Year in a word: Memecoin

    The crypto craze celebrates the silliness of digital assets linked to the ephemera of social media

    A selection of crypto coins
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Instant InsightFederal Reserve
    Investors only have themselves to blame as Jay Powell steals Christmas

    The Fed chair’s apparent cooling on further interest rate cuts has gone down badly with markets

    A middle-aged man in a suit talks on a podium with the American flag in the background
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    Will IPOs ever come back?

    Or are we entering a new era of privately-owned companies?

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    The Long ViewUS dollar
    Trump’s tricky dollar problem

    The president-elect might want a weaker US currency but market forces are pushing in the other direction

    Donald Trump on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this week
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    The dangers of investor groupthink

    Investors are nearly unified over optimism for US equities

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    Geopolitics? What geopolitics?

    There is a reshaping of the world order. What did markets miss?

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Investors need to keep an eye on Ukraine

    Now is the time for money managers to at least think about how they would respond if peace broke out

    Local residents attend a memorial ceremony under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    The Long ViewEuropean equities
    German stock rally counters European gloom

    Dax has enjoyed an unexpectedly strong market performance since the US elections

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    Are US stocks too expensive?

    Is America in a bubble or just exceptional?

  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Markets InsightSovereign bonds
    France should heed the ‘grumpy mum’ warnings on debt

    The convergence of French yields with Greece’s is a reality check

    French economy, finance and industry minister Antoine Armand speaking at the National Assembly in Paris, France
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Equity valuation
    AI stocks: what if this time it really is different?

    Some investors worry we’re in bubble territory, but others think a new paradigm has arrived

    Nvidia Corporation logo seen on a smartphone screen with stock trading
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Long ViewUS equities
    Tina is back: Investors say there is no alternative to US equities

    Fund managers are finding it really hard to articulate a strong case to put money to work anywhere else

    Montage shows the Statue of Liberty against a data backdrop
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast25 min listen
    Looking at 2025

    Banks are issuing their year-ahead reports. What do they think?

  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    The Long ViewEU economy
    Investors want more urgency from Europe in tackling its economic problems

    Competition with the US looks set to intensify with Donald Trump heading to the White House again

    Montage image of Euros, a stopwatch, and black and red bars
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Crypto’s Trump card

    President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-crypto rhetoric has sent bitcoin soaring

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast29 min listen
    Live from Kilkenomics: anger and economics

    Is anger driving policy now?

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Bitcoin’s big bang moment is impossible to ignore

    The post-election excitement around crypto comes down to vibes and vision

    Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast26 min listen
    Live from Kilkenomics: financial mistakes

    Unhedged the podcast goes on the road

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast29 min listen
    The Trump economy. How big? How beautiful?

    Where do Trump policies push inflation, the stock market and interest rates?

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Markets called Trump right — but what do they do now?

    The bond vigilantes have woken up and taken note of the former president’s big win

    The Federal Reserve
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    Do the markets even care about the US election?

    A look at prices and polling

  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    The Long ViewUS presidential election 2024
    The problem with the Trump trade

    Speculative hedge funds are placing bets but other investors have been more cautious

    Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak during a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The titans of Wall Street

    How a secretive group of firms came to dominate trading

  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    The Long ViewEmerging markets
    Emerging markets are having a moment

    US interest rate cuts spur reassessment of asset class and bolster its allure

    People walk outside the New York Stock Exchange
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