Diversification Play: Why It's Not Too Late to Buy Asia
Fiona Yang, portfolio manager on the Invesco Asia Dragon Trust, joins Merryn Somerset Webb to discuss why global capital rotated from US equities into emerging Asia in 2025—and what she sees happening...
23 Feb 39min
Markets Weekly: Inflation Falls, Wage Growth Cools, and Bets on BOE Cuts
On this week's markets wrap, John Stepek speaks with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marcus Ashworth and Morwenna Coniam from the Markets Today team about this week’s fall in the headline rate of consumer...
20 Feb 20min
REITs Explained: How Real Estate Investment Trusts Work and What Moves Their Prices
Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek are joined by Bloomberg’s Jack Sidders to break down how Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) work and why they’ve struggled in recent years. They explore the imp...
18 Feb 27min
Modern Monetary Theory: Free Money or Fiscal Fantasy?
Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with Panmure Liberum Chief Economist Simon French to unpack Modern Monetary Theory—the idea that governments issuing their own currency can spend freely, constrained only b...
16 Feb 27min
Markets Weekly: AI Sparks Market Rotation, UK Political Risk, and the Pensions Property Debate
On this week's markets wrap, hosts Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss a sharp market rotation driven by growing fears that AI will disrupt – rather than simply enhance – major sectors includ...
13 Feb 18min
What Reform Plans to Do If It Takes Over the UK with Richard Tice
With talk of an early UK election swirling, Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice joins Merryn Somerset Webb to make the case that his party is ready to govern. Tice argues that Reform UK, which is leadin...
11 Feb 21min
The 'Boring' Industries the UK Can’t Afford to Lose
Merryn Somerset Webb is joined by Sky News economics editor Ed Conway, author of Material World, to explain why the real engines of modern life aren’t apps and algorithms—they’re the raw materials and...
9 Feb 32min
Emergency Pod: Is It All Over for Bitcoin?
In this emergency bonus episode of Merryn Talks Money, Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek unpack a sudden crypto selloff that has seen Bitcoin tumble nearly 50% from its highs, confounding expectati...
6 Feb 24min
