Introducing 'Behind the Money': Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?
For more than 170 years, Wells Fargo built a reputation as an all-American Main Street lender. Now, it is charting a new path and pushing into investment banking, something that many other banks have ...
17 Feb 20min
Is AI creating jobs?
Buried deep in the heart of this week’s US jobs report is a hint that companies may be increasing hiring to build all those AI data centres we keep hearing about. Also on the show, Rob Armstrong and K...
12 Feb 22min
What Takaichi's win means for global markets
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party dominated in a snap election on Sunday and the country’s stock market loved it. This week, the Nikkei 225 hit an all-time high. T...
10 Feb 21min
The triangle of confusion
Markets, data and sentiment are often looked to as indicators of the present and guides to the future. But these data points aren’t helping as much as they used to. Today on the show, Robert Armstrong...
5 Feb 24min
The next Fed chair
President Donald Trump announced his pick for the next Fed chair at the end of last week. It was Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Fed Board of Governors. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Arm...
3 Feb 22min
The incredible shrinking dollar
Since the second inauguration of US President Donald Trump, the dollar has been in a slow but persistent decline. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong try to figure out what is happening ...
29 Jan 24min
How does a gold rush end?
Gold and silver are both racing to record highs. But can it last? Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong talk about factors that might put the brakes on the frenzy. Also they go long the Me...
27 Jan 24min
Taco FTW
The “Taco trade” proved profitable again this week as US President Donald Trump walked back his proposals for invading Greenland. ("Taco", of course, is the acronym for "Trump always chickens out".) G...
22 Jan 19min
