Investors should beware the regulatory storm gathering over Silicon Valley

Akeso’s shares surge in Hong Kong as buyers brush off city’s economic downturn

Could your stock picking skills beat the market this year? In this week's FT Money Show podcast presenter Claer Barrett talks to FT Markets reporter Robert Smith about the results of our 2019 contest between readers and FT journalists. Plus we give you details of how to enter this year's competition. Next up, January's nearly over but you still have another 11 months to make good on your New Year's resolutions. If you had resolved to get a pay rise or sort out your pension this year, keep listening as help is at hand. 

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Join our campaign for clear pension charges - FT Money has been exploring the impossibility of comparing the costs of drawdown plans. The FT is calling on the pensions and advise industry to be transparent about charges to help people to shop around. In this week's show, FT Money Show presenter Claer Barrett interviews o the FT's pensions expert about our campaign. Next up, the spread of the coronavirus has given world stock markets a nasty turn - FT Moneys' new investment reporter, Madison Darbyshire, talks about how investors are reacting. And finally, to cheer listeners up a bit - James Max, our Rich People's Problems columnist is here to discuss a burning issue - the government's proposed ban on coal fires. 

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It's been a week of shock and awe for UK investors. Wednesday started with an emergency interest rate cut from the BoE. New chancellor Rishi Sunak then delivered a Budget full of emergency "first aid" measures to help workers, the self employed and small businesses survive the crisis - and some very unexpected news for wealthy pension savers. And in the meantime - stock markets around the world continue to experience deep falls as central banks work out how to respond to the coronavirus.

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Tokyo’s Topix dropped 2.5% at the open, taking the benchmark index down more than 30% for the year. The move followed S&P 500 index's collapse of 12 per cent on Monday, marking the biggest one-day fall since the crash of October 1987.

The London Stock Exchange group has confirmed that it is in advanced talks to buy Refinitiv in a $27bn deal that would turn it into a global exchanges and data powerhouse. Patrick Jenkins discusses the proposed deal with Arash Massoudi, the FT’s corporate finance and deals editor.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Arash Massoudi, corporate finance and deals editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Investors have bet on Gilead’s remdesivir as solution to coronavirus crisis

S&P 500 falls after Big Tech raises red flags over virus impact and US-China tensions ratchet higher

Rise of volatility and dispersion was supposed to bring a change of fortunes versus passive

Companies suffer steep share-price falls while Luckin implosion highlights risks

Bullish investors and gung-ho governors are setting themselves up for a big reality check

European equities slip after ECB launches fresh push to bolster region’s banking system

Central bank support and rising hopes for economic reopening spark April rally

Sell-off dents investment holdings despite uptick in operating profit

Wall Street’s late sell-off came on top of Europe’s worst-ever single day performance

Nikkei 225 average drops 16 per cent over the week amid broad pandemic-linked sell-off

Investors still on edge amid fears over economic impact of widespread shutdowns

S&P 500 records fourth gain in five sessions, despite new leg down for oil prices

Shares rally this week on hopes that spread of pandemic may be easing

Legal marijuana producers also report spike in demand during lockdown 

Dow wipes out gains of the Trump presidency amid fears antivirus measures are inadequate

Energy sector leads US S&P 500 to 2.3% gain   

S&P 500 surges 7% after coronavirus shows signs of peaking in continental Europe

Asia-Pacific indices broadly higher after S&P 500 closes up 3.4%

Stocks rise but crude tumbles as world’s largest oil ETF cuts stake

Two- and five-year yields hit record lows as futures investors anticipate negative rates

Coronavirus exposes nation’s post-Fukushima vulnerability

It is the deepest, broadest, most liquid market for larger global businesses

Pound dips following UK chancellor’s hard Brexit remarks

Outbreak ripples across US, European and Asian equity markets

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment

Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

Many zombie companies will fail, no matter how much is sprayed around by the Fed

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As coronavirus-hit financial markets continue to flip-flop in the wake of bad news followed by pockets of hope, a startup that aims to introduce ordinary consumers to investing has raised a big round of funding. New York-based Stash, which provides a mobile-first route to managing money through investment — as well as retirement, custodial and […]

Brent crude slips back below $30 a barrel after a six-day run of gains

Equities rise but some Treasury yields hit record lows as investors weigh economic outlook

You can easily read optimism in the stock market. Ask around the private markets, however, and you'll hear a very different narrative.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s stock price was “too high” in his opinion, immediately sending shares into a free fall and in possible violation of an agreement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year. Tesla shares fell nearly 12% in the half hour following his stock price tweets […]

The hum of the helicopters needs to start getting louder

Companies lean heavily on equity in effort to dent blow from coronavirus

The outlook looks weak for shares exposed to the local economy

China’s example suggests that life will not snap back to normal, strategists say

Cheaper parts of the market can lag a lot more before the current global downturn ends

Let's take a look at why the SaaS cohort is the apple of Wall Street's eye.

Few investors went into this crisis with a portfolio they were entirely happy with

Let's take a look at why the SaaS cohort is the apple of Wall Street's eye.