UK

jadrsamara

Currency risk assuming I need to convert pounds to us dollar correct? I'm not based in UK, and my current income is in USD.

greytoc

Betting on the whole market doesn't mean US equities only. If you want a global equity or multi-asset fund - you don't necessarily have to invest via a US domiciled account. But if you do want to invest in a US domiciled account - the withholding is only on income and capital gains is untaxed - so if you are holding growth funds - the dividends don't tend to be as impactful. A fund like VWRA which you mentioned is a global equities fund so yes - it's a good choice - I presume you are in the UK. Bear in mind that some of these funds are not currency hedged so you would be exposing yourself to currency risk if that matters to your investing thesis.

barnshaw292

also for me in UK I can buy MSTR and any gains are tax free, whereas any crypto gains are taxed at 20%

renblaze10

Leveraged ETFs in the UK are so bad unfortunately. The liquidity is shit

Rosella2562

How are trades free? If I want to buy 100 of 0.01 option contracts I end up paying like $140 for it, their “contract fees” or whatever - Is it different because I’m in the UK maybe?

KingStyllama

Pretty sure this has more to do with the incident of the UK Navy Drones where some electronic part was pinging to China and is seen in Europe as a huge security risk.

johndsmits

ok, I'm participating in the drone dominance *reality TV \[cough\] show,* \[cough\] I mean competition. Who in the US is buying a >55lb drones and docking station unless you're the miltary? 55lbs is the part 107 US reg limit. I do know a lot of mom-n-pop shops that were supplying cheap army drones were buying chinese white label units 8 years ago, but BlueUAS should have solved that in 2022...or did it? 15% / 10% to Taiwan and UK are going to kill the domestic industry (and some of the players in the Drone Dominance thing), full stop, just destroyed an industry I help create 15years ago. Lastly, I dunno anymore making magnets around here. Time to get a shovel I guess.

Common-Method2202

I'm from UK - Seems like it's more of a bigger thing in the US, hence why i have never heard of it.

enc-nyc

Elon posting a meme video like he's Austin Powers who bought UK TSLA +4%

jamaltheripper

Yes, the average person in Mississippi is better than the average person in UK. Higher median income adjusted for purchasing power. Listen you can read all the anti American propaganda you want, but the numbers clearly support my point. You literally don't have any numbers to support your argument and just talking Out of your ass

jamaltheripper

You do realize that a wealthy European country like UK has lower gdp per capita and median income than Mississippi? Your statement was true maybe 20 years ago, but US has laped you guys and even the poorest Americans are wealthier than average Europeans.

maffoobristol

Unhedged from the Financial Times is good. I don't really listen to many other things. Too many "pair of comedians with somewhat stretched concepts interview yet another comedian doing the podcast circuit" and I've become tired of it. At least that's how it is in the UK at the moment

mattymattymatty96

In the UK we have saying for this "NO sh!t, sherlock"

isP1tchhere

UK100 has

maffoobristol

Maybe depends on the kind of europoor. UK famously doesn't really have AC. Hard and expensive and uncommon to retrofit to old buildings too. Lots of people have the portable ones with the tube you dangle out of the window but they've been sold out everywhere all summer so I'm gonna invest for next year this winter I reckon

AtMyZenith

Hi everyone! I’m new to investing and hoping for some words of wisdom. I’m an employed 26 year old earning around 50k, living in the UK. I’ve currently got 33k in a Chip Cash ISA and want to start investing. My goal is to save money for a deposit on a house and aim to be doing that in the next 3-5 years. I want to keep around 8k in an easy access Cash ISA and invest the rest, I’m not sure if I want to transfer to Trading 212 or keep it in Chip. Chip provides a stocks and shares ISA which has risk ratings out of 7 for big funds from blackrock, vanguard etc. I quite like how simple it makes it. From what I have seen trading 212 is more detailed but more intense for a beginner. Any suggestions as to what might be a good choice long term would be appreciated! I’ve also done some research and heard people suggest drip feeding the investments to help level out the price you paid. On Martin Lewis’s show, one of the financial advisors said to do around 1-2k a month when investing around 30k. Is this right? If I am trying to invest 25k it’s going to take me over 2 years to do that. Surely that wouldn’t be ideal? I am also saving £500 per month from my salary which I would like to invest straight away, and would make this process even longer. Just a final note regarding risk tolerance, as I want this for a house deposit I thinking medium risk. Ideally the investments would outperform the Cash ISA rates by some margin. Based on the research I have done, FTSE is currently what I’m planning on investing the majority of my money but will want to diversify where possible. Again any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Tilting_Gambit

Even assuming (and it is a very, very big and shaky assumption) that all those macro factors will impact the stock market negatively, you're baking in like conditional probability of events that are far from certain.  The line moves up and to the right because capitalism is very good at moving up and to the right. For that to change because e.g. climate gets more unstable, you need to assume that companies in those index funds will make less money in 20 years, or that no companies enter the equation that manage that risk. Sure, US farmers, a minuscule part of the economy, and a slightly larger dependent part of the economy might make less money. But Siberia or Canada becomes more arable too. The US loses its soft power? Maybe? But the UK gave away its empire, not just soft power, and it remained a pretty okish investment ever since. Yeah, not great returns, but if you invested in the UK index in 1945 and retired in 2000 you'd be doing ok.  And index funds are going to remain a reasonably good investment for people who don't know what they're doing. They're going to beat the banks interest and bonds for the most part. So I guess even if you think there's additional risk and potentially lower returns, what's the alternative option? Housing grossly underperforms too.  If you can pick excellent stocks, you're going to be better off doing that no matter what. But I don't see an alternative investment thesis even given your assumptions. 

Sensitive-Village735

I am 23Y/O and currently have around $48,000 invested pretty randomly in random ETFs and stocks across a few different apps and I am in the process of selling and streamlining into 1 app. Around 15,000$ of that is in a lifetime ISA (I am in the UK, this is an account where the government contribute 25% of your contributions and can only be used for the purchase of a house) The remaining amount 33k$ I am looking to move into a trading212 S&S ISA This is the current allocation I have decided on however I am debating whether to simplify it even further and would like some advice on whether that would be the move. The reason why it is so complicated is because I’m worried about the current tech/ai ‘bubble’ and am trying to protect myself from losing to much when it potentially does pop. It is as follows: 55% Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating 20% Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating 10% Your REIT Pie 5 individual REITs below 15% Vanguard Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF GBP Hedged Accumulating Allocation within REIT Pie Effective portfolio allocation Realty Income Corporation 20% VICI Properties Inc. 20% Prologis, Inc. 20% Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 20% Ventas, Inc. 20% I understand there is a lot of overlap with the S&P and the FTSE all world, but would this really be a problem if the only thing I would replace it with would be more S&P in the first place?

BatteryAcid420_

Canal mania does seem to relate to UK. Railway mania caused a stock market bubble in the UK. The US was building railway at the same time but you can build a lot more railway until it becomes unnecessary in such a big country, so it was probably less of an issue.

QuaintHeadspace

Tasty works. Im from the UK and almost no brokers have options here in Europe.

Bitter_griffin-24

UK regard too, my advice is delete Robinhood

Inside-Ad-8935

IPTV on Firestick is very popular in the UK. That is a lot more accessible for people not comfortable with other approaches like torrents. If companies keep pushing I can see it being even more popular.

PiratesOfTheArctic

UK here (Liverpool) one in the town centre actually had this scene several times, now the place has security staff, at one point, kids weren't allowed in after 6pm

Celticsmoneyline

I thought that was in the UK. and railway mania was more US, I feel like it got those flipped

Common-Concentrate-2

I'm not an investor, and I don't understand the economy, but I've seen a bunch of companies materialize out of nowhere, and I'd love to hear some feedback - I have zero connection to these businesses, including being an investor... I think windward.ai is a perfect example of a business that could not exist 5 years ago. They have AI crawl a bunch of satellites and terrestrial cameras, and public records of where boats/tankers are, and fuse it all together, to create a very accurate ledger or where every vessel is across the world. This is from yahoo "Octopus UK Bidco, a subsidiary of FTV VIII, has announced a recommended cash acquisition of Windward, a maritime artificial intelligence (AI) based analytics firm, in a deal valued at around £216m ($270.7m). The deal will result in Windward shareholders receiving 215 pence per share in cash. Windward provides a comprehensive platform for maritime domain awareness and risk management." Surely there are tens of thousands of applications for this kind of thing? You're basically using AI to fuse togeher a near perfect situational awareness of a space...like marine transport, astronomic data, radar for airplanes or weather phenomena, or...theft if a certain neighborhood...? I sound like a cop now - I dont want to be a cop, but I feel like a lot of people want god-like omnipotence, and whether or not you can guarantee that, people will pay for it?

imunfair

>What the hell are you talking about Your energy prices being heightened due to sanctions and sticking your noses in a war that has zero impact on the UK. The UK has actually been one of the most aggressive and vocal participants in Ukraine, to the detriment of UK citizens.

skipperseven

Not exactly the same, but ranking global international trade at their peak, Spain at one time accounted for 10-15% of global commerce (4th place), the US 15-30% (3rd), the UK for 25-40% (2nd) and the Netherlands for and astonishing 40-50%. The US is following exactly the same path to decline as all the previous countries in first place and unfortunately this will have a detrimental effect on all of the west. The next country to dominate international trade, finance and be the world superpower is probably China; Trump has accelerated this through erratic leadership and profligate spending in search of personal gain.

Ldn_twn_lvn

The algos are instant, you was never gonna beat them anyway, you is regarded if you think you could beat an algo to the chase **never give away for free, value that can be charged for** And the world runs on oil, and without it's steady and interrupted supply, the world at large grinds to a halt That's just str8 fax dude, ain't nothin new I mean you're very slap dash there with your assessment, With China, it's more like the humiliation they suffered in the whole Opium Wars saga - China does not forget Russia tends to treat it's own people quite well for the most part of recent modern times, but it's always been a power hungry, expansionist Federation Irans Religious Leadership has a long standing beef with Jews, and the UK set up The State of Israel, whilst The USA have long been strong allies with Israel North Korea is a typically Failed Communist State, but one so brutal, that it managed to survive, even whilst it continued to figuratively crucify it's own people, through pig headed ignorance and some good luck. They are a real wild card but tend to keep largely to themselves on the whole All this surface level nonsense you stated, is quite naive to the real issues in play

Serious_Income_7020

You can’t even protect your own little girls in the UK, but energy prices are the big concern? Quiet now, Islamic apologist. You are a conquered nation, the proof is in the Yorkshire pudding.

Brutos08

Americans voted for this while the rest of the world suffers. My energy price was on the verge of coming down here in the UK until this orange twat decided to to follow Netanyahu into a war with no freaking plan. Twat!!

No_Context7340

10 year US treasuries yields are very close to 5 percent already. The same is true for UK gilts. Where are you living? With the interest rates in these currencies, 5 percent without much risk is achievable, as long as your future expenses are in these currencies as well.

positronius

I have to VPN outside of the UK in order to skip the ID verification, if there is a post with so much as a bit of cleavage, but hey, wanna watch a walrus jerk off? Here ya go buddy

greytoc

Try looking in r/UKInvesting and/or r/UKPersonalFinance if you have UK specific questions. But in general - the choice of VWRP vs VUAG is the same regardless of what country you are in - it will depend on your factors like your risk tolerance and financial situation. The caveat is that the funds you mentioned are USD denominated funds - so you have to also decide if you want to be exposed to currency fluctuations. Both are also equity only funds so you also need to decide if you want to diversify into other asset classes like sovereign debt and bonds - diversification doesn't just mean geo-diversification.

VonParsley

32 years old, UK. I'm looking to invest for a couple of decades. Most books and resources I've read are US-centric so I'm wondering if anyone can help me out when choosing the right broker and the most sensible ETFs to invest in. I'm planning on starting with £12,000 then contributing monthly. Should I go all-in with VWRP? Choose VUAG and diversify further? Something else? Thanks.

MicioBau

All the ones overrun by immigrants, so UK, Sweden, France, etc.

ScarletHarpy93

Definitely the UK. It's like a third world country over there. All the good Indians are going back to more economically prosperous places like the Delhi slums to open curry stands.

goodbodha

The short list of where ships pay fees for transit is Turkey, suez canal, and the Panama canal from my understanding. In all 3 cases local pilots, tugs etc are involved so fees are fairly legit. Turkey has a deal about warships passing in or out. If Iran and Oman went with something that broadly aligned with that it would be far more palatable. However fees or tolls for no actual service is a huge issue. Imagine for a minute this stands. Could the Uk and Morocco do the same for the strait of Gibraltar? What if they started charging a 3% fee? Suez canal couldn't possibly take all the traffic and that 3% fee would add up fast. UK could solve their debt issues with that given time and Morocco could make bank. Would that be ok?

MagnesiumKitten

FickleBumblebee: Have you seen electricity prices in the UK, and how long Hinkley Point has taken to still not be completed? Also look at the strike price we're paying the EDF on that The UK has had decades of terrible planning with the nuclear industry, and aren't as pragmatic as the French with their industry. "France is still pursuing small modular reactor (SMR) technology, though it has restructured its approach. State-owned EDF scrapped its original complex Nuward SMR design due to high costs and design roadblocks, but the company redesigned the project to rely on proven, simpler technologies and is actively seeking commercial investors." Good luck with that one The cost and design issues never go away All this stuff is a decade away, and it's a lot of time for these pie in the sky projects to blow up, with safety and cost issues. But some people love a good ole White Elephant. Hinkley Point is like 46 Billion Sterling and it'll use the unproven European Pressurized Reactor designs but inflation and supply chains and decades of untrained workers, just means it'll be slow and costly, but probably wiser in the long run ////// The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) is a Generation III+ pressurized water nuclear reactor designed primarily by Framatome and Électricité de France (EDF). While rooted in earlier tested French and German reactor designs, early builds faced severe delays and budget overruns. I think the EPR will be successful where the SMR is going to be the nightmarish stuff Hinkley Point C1 Hinkley Point C2 Sizewell C1 Sizewell C2 and the French are still planning their next four designs

FickleBumblebeee

>No one sane is really going to be buying SMR when the electricity costs are 4x the price of a large nuclear power plant Have you seen electricity prices in the UK, and how long Hinkley Point has taken to still not be completed? Also look at the strike price we're paying the EDF on that

SilverVikingTT

Vessel struck off coast of Oman: UKMTO The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre has received a report of a vessel being struck about 18 nautical miles (33 km) off the coast of the Omani town of Khasab. UKMTO cited a “verified source” as saying an “unknown projectile” hit the vessel, causing a fire.

Successful_Car1670

Can you blame people for holding stocks though? Inflation eating our lunch and bonds are trash and not even safe anymore. Look up risk of default and it’s France>UK>US. Everyone is sleep walking

Red_Zone_Broly

Can you guess the salary for Head of Cyber Security for UK Government Treasury? [57K](https://x.com/Jackbmeyer/status/2085821528663265323?sort_replies=likes) lol

ClaymationDinosaur

I'm in the UK. A number of banks do savings accounts with high interest rates but restrictions on how much can be put in each month; opening several of them is a pain but can be done. Right now I have a Lloyds offering 8% and a Santander offering 7.1%, and probably another one somewhere. They often don't last more than a year too, so there's a lot of swapping around to do. Once you get a few going and keep your eyes open for new ones, you can end up managing to put reasonable amounts in each month, but it's never just going to be tens of thousands at once into such an account. Still, better than 3%, and I guess the point I'm making isn't so much that these are great accounts than that there are banks handing out 8% (although with painful restrictions on deposit amounts that means I end up with a chain of them, always circulating).

Qweasdy

Pension can be a generic term for both defined contribution and defined benefit schemes. Most countries have pensions, only America has 401K’s In the UK we had a similar shift from defined benefit pensions to defined contribution pensions but we still call them pensions [Wikipedia also lists both as pension types](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension) and gives the US’s 401k as an example of a defined contribution pension.

MagnesiumKitten

Well it was and is still a terrible company it has more to do with the British massively investing into it with their funds, and they might end up in serious trouble holding onto so much of it It's always been a high risk investment momentum traders at least buy and sell with it where the buy and hold strategy here has a very real risk, but it's been safe enough till early this year no value investors touch it, and it's totally a fringe stock on the NYSE One reason it's not well liked is that it doesn't make money half the time, and that's with some of the most brutal cost cutting. You might see government help if the company tanks and some of the big UK Funds lose their fucking minds on it. Maybe Christmas we'll see some drama

sadferret123

I'm guessing people speculated they'd go bankrupt because of COVID and its effect on the travel industry. The British govt would obviously never let that happen as it's one of the best deep tech companies in the UK. Then we obviously stopped giving a shit about some mildly deadly virus and moved on with our lives. So did RR

kokkomo

Sure bro, that is why they buy up all the overflow and expose themselves to constant criticism. Its not a conspiracy when you can look up the list of fines incurred by Citadel Securities and Citadel Advisors. US regulatory fines: 1. In 2007, Citadel Securities was fined $22,500 by FINRA for failing to properly report short interest positions. 2. In 2009, Citadel Securities was fined $3 million by the SEC for allegedly engaging in improper trading practices that artificially impacted the price of securities. 3. In 2014, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined Citadel Securities $800,000 for allegedly violating the market access rule, which requires firms to have adequate risk controls and supervisory procedures in place when providing direct market access to customers. 4. In 2015, Citadel Securities was fined $800,000 by the SEC for violating the Market Access Rule. 5. In 2015, Citadel Securities was fined $1.5 million by FINRA for violating various rules related to trading activities. 6. In 2016, Citadel Securities was fined $3.5 million by the SEC for violating the National Market System Plan governing the consolidated data feeds that disseminate stock prices and trades to the public. 7. In 2017, Citadel Securities was fined $22.6 million by the SEC for misleading customers about the quality of its pricing and execution. 8. In 2017, the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fined Citadel Securities $1.5 million for allegedly providing inaccurate information to customers and for failing to report trades to the appropriate regulatory entities. 9. In 2018, Citadel Securities was fined $3.5 million by the SEC for failing to provide customers with accurate trade data. 10. In 2019, Citadel Securities was fined $100,000 by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for exceeding speculative position limits in wheat futures. 11. In 2020, Citadel Securities was fined $97,000 by FINRA for failing to properly report certain equity trades. 12. In 2020, the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fined Citadel Securities $700,000 for allegedly violating swap data reporting requirements. 13. In 2021, Citadel Securities was fined $700,000 by FINRA for failing to report a significant number of trades to FINRA's Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE). International regulatory fines: 14. In 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) fined Citadel Securities €1.1 million for breaching market-making obligations and engaging in algo-trading activity that may have contributed to market disorder. 15. In 2017, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) in France fined Citadel Securities €5 million for allegedly manipulating French government bond futures. 16. In 2018, Citadel Securities was fined €1.6 million by the Italian securities regulator (CONSOB) for market manipulation and insider trading in the Italian government bond market. 18. In 2018, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) fined Citadel Securities AUD 360,000 for alleged trading violations related to market integrity. 19. In 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) fined Citadel Securities $230,000 for market manipulation related to its trading activities on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). 20. In 2020, the French financial regulator, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), fined Citadel Securities €2 million for allegedly manipulating the bond market and breaching its best execution obligations. 21. In 2020, the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) fined Citadel Securities £1.2 million for failing to provide accurate and timely transaction reports to the regulator. 22. In 2020, the Swiss financial regulator, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), fined Citadel Securities CHF 1.12 million for violating trading rules and engaging in market manipulation on the SIX Swiss Exchange. 23. In 2020, Citadel Securities was fined £1,445,000 by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for inaccurate transaction reporting and failing to take reasonable care to organize and control its affairs responsibly and effectively. 24. In 2021, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined Citadel Securities £1.4 million for failing to adequately report certain trades to the regulator. 25. In 2021, Citadel Securities was fined $97,000,000 in China for alleged "malicious" short-selling practices. 26. In 2021, the Korea Financial Investment Association (KFIA) reportedly fined Citadel Securities 175 million won ($155,000) for allegedly engaging in high-frequency trading activities that violated local laws. 27. In 2022, Citadel Advisors LLC was fined $20,000 by the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) for violating position-limit rules involving November 2021 Henry Hub natural-gas contracts. NYMEX found that Citadel held 2,365 short contracts—365 above the standard 2,000-contract limit—and lost the benefit of a conditional limit when it established a position in the underlying Henry Hub Natural Gas futures contract. The settlement became effective September 12, 2022; Citadel neither admitted nor denied the rule violation. 28. In 2023, South Korean regulators imposed approximately ₩12.98 billion in penalties—about $10.55 million at the time—on Citadel Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. This consisted of ₩11.88 billion, roughly $9.66 million, relating to findings that its high-frequency algorithmic trading disrupted the Korean stock market, plus approximately ₩1.1 billion, roughly $890,000, relating to short-sale violations. Reuters reported the principal ₩11.88 billion sanction in January 2023. Citadel disputed the market-disruption findings and appealed them; its current FINRA BrokerCheck affiliate disclosure reports that portion as “On Appeal,” while stating that the firm did not contest the short-sale findings. 29. In 2023, the SEC fined Citadel Securities $7 million for violations of Regulation SHO's order-marking requirements. The SEC estimated that over a five-year period Citadel incorrectly marked millions of orders, including short sales marked as long and long sales marked as short, because of a coding error in its automated trading system. The inaccurate information was also transmitted to regulators. Citadel accepted a censure, cease-and-desist order, $7 million penalty and remedial undertakings without admitting or denying the findings. 30. In 2024, FINRA fined Citadel Securities $1 million for widespread Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting violations. FINRA found that from June 2020 through August 2024 the firm failed to timely or accurately report tens of billions of equity and options order events to the CAT Central Repository, involving numerous different types of reporting errors. Citadel was censured and fined $1 million in an October 9, 2024 AWC. Nothing to see here folks, were just not good enough to cheat enough for it not to even matter when you get caught.

-mini-kuma

I had little-known UK photonics Gooch & Housego that got recently bought out. The sector has years of growth ahead.

Artistic_Concern_33

lol the funny thing is the US considered this and it was less riskier to let EU dump US treasuries than to let Japan dump it, unfortunately the EU doesn’t own that much US treasuries compared to Japan and the UK

Will1am777

Logging in the from UK before market opens. What I miss?

PositivePopular5437

Bro are you high, it is posibility with military action but with malaysia, australia, and UK baking up singapore. I think indonesia will lose the war in month

Vino-Decanto

I’m in UK, Tastytrade’s how I work it

gazrrrr

I’m just laughing that you’re comparing the two companies in an in depth financial way😂 Small food chains worth 2bn in the UK make 200m net profit a year! Should they be valued higher than SpaceX? No😂😂😂 You’re naivety has no bounds at the sheer amount of tech going on at SpaceX. You simply cannot compare! They’ve reduced space flight cost by 5x! You have no idea

player_zero_

Ensilica - small cap UK company, produces loads of different chips, including those that are in the ASTS satellites. Decent upside potential

Proudrugby

My bad. Getting that mixed up with the fact that a lot can't afford the medication Ps...it wasn't an attack on the US or its people so wind your neck in. A lot of annual leave in the UK and Ireland is between 25 to 30 days

EmbarrassedPart1256

Thanks for the well wishes! Your energy is always appreciated on here 🤙 hopefully this isn't your only source of income & just a side hustle, that you're bringing in the big bucks in the UK...

Character_Ad_1485

Dubai actually puts you in a decent position for this. A few directions worth thinking about. Short duration US treasuries or a money market fund denominated in USD are the lowest risk option right now. You're getting 4.5-5% with essentially no credit risk and full liquidity. For someone whose primary concern is capital preservation while inflation erodes cash, this is the baseline to beat before taking on anything else. If you want slightly more yield without equity risk, investment grade corporate bonds with 2-5 year maturities are worth looking at. You give up some liquidity but pick up maybe 100-150 basis points over treasuries. On property, Dubai itself is interesting given where you're sitting. No capital gains tax, no income tax on rental income, and the market has had a genuine demand story from the global wealth migration of the last few years. The landlord regulatory environment is materially simpler than the UK. The risk is that parts of the market are running hot and liquidity in a downturn is thinner than it looks in the good times. REITs give you property exposure without the management headache and with daily liquidity, though the correlation to equity markets is higher than people expect when things go wrong. The honest answer is that minimum risk and meaningful inflation protection are in tension with each other. Treasuries protect your capital but may not fully outrun inflation depending on where it settles. Anything that reliably beats inflation over time carries more risk than it appears on the surface.

anish714

Dude, I I ran that exact simulation. I invested £35 in 1800, being the average salary of the average UK citizen, in a FTSE 100-style index in 1800, compounded yearly, leading up to now. That £35 would be equivalent to tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. That's after the UK declining from a superpower to an average country and going through two world wars over 200 years. I think your best bet is to stay in the most capitalistic market currently.

Smaxter84

Revenue.....what's the profit ? Loss is worse than before ha ha what a fucking joke, all the dumb plebs on here that just wouldn't listen....this is what you get. And all these articles desperately trying to pump by claiming an increase in revenue - ridiculous they borrowed way more.....revenue doesn't mean shit if your profit margin is negative. Here's another truth for you - this whole US tech / AI bubble is going to pop at some point - and it will be biblical. I've never seen such an obvious load of utter pumping bullshit. They've done deals in the UK to build data centers that will use double the current grid capacity! That obviously can't happen.....the circular money can only hide the lack of revenue for so long. When it becomes obvious even to the idiots, it's going down in flames.

chuckleote10

Only available in UK tho

Readonly00

Same in UK

Adventurous_Sell5994

“US, UK top diplomats meet on Iran” 16 minutes ago posted on Al jazeera

blorg

I would never recommend going all-in on ex-US and dumping all US holdings. That's a strawman. The core argument for diversification is holding both. Even at global market-cap weights, you're still ~60% US, even the base case here you're more in US equities than not. I prefer VT for simplicity, but it's completely fine to choose an intentional home-bias (like 70/30 or 80/20 US). What doesn't hold up is using macro narratives to justify a 100% US allocation. This is all **Priced In**. >There aren't any tailwinds in a huge # of Ex-US countries. Market returns aren't driven by absolute economic growth or good headlines; they are driven by performance relative to expectations. Everything you listed, China's political risk, Japan's demographics, European stagnation, or the UK's GDP per capita, is common knowledge. Because it's common knowledge, it's already priced in. That's why ex-US equities trade at a massive valuation discount compared to the US. For US stocks to continue outperforming, US corporate earnings don't just need to be good, they need to consistently exceed the extremely aggressive growth expectations already baked into today's sky-high valuations. For cheap international stocks to outperform, they just need to turn out *slightly less terrible* than the dismal scenario the market has already priced in. Research has actually shown there is a [zero or slightly negative correlation between per-capita GDP growth and real stock returns.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927538X05000338) [[2]](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oddly-stock-market-returns-gdp-203439790.html) You're simply looking at the wrong thing here. *It's not what you buy, it's what you pay that counts. Good investing doesn't come from buying good things, but from buying things well.* - Howard Marks >I'll start buying as soon as Ex-US companies become household recognizable names. Waiting for companies to become household names before buying is literally a strategy for buying at the top. The entire point of value/international diversification is buying productive assets before the market prices them higher. Beyond that, ex-US companies are already household names: Nestle, Toyota, Samsung, Novo Nordisk, LVMH, Sony, Unilever, Shell, and ASML and TSMC (who are responsible for producing the chips inside the American tech everyone is bullish on). The US is the strongest market in the world today, but betting 100% of your portfolio on the assumption that current US valuation multiples will expand indefinitely, and that no other market will ever experience a multi-decade cycle again, seems wrong to me. It can't do this forever: indefinite relative outperformance is mathematically impossible unless you believe US equities will eventually account for 100% of global market cap and total global GDP. You are right though that we don't know when it might change. Hence why I just buy both and don't try to time it.

blorg

I would never recommend going all-in on ex-US and dumping all US holdings. That's a strawman. The core argument for diversification is holding both. Even at global market-cap weights, you're still ~60% US, even the base case here you're more in US equities than not. I prefer VT for simplicity, but it's completely fine to choose an intentional home-bias (like 70/30 or 80/20 US). What doesn't hold up is using macro narratives to justify a 100% US allocation. >There aren't any tailwinds in a huge # of Ex-US countries. Market returns aren't driven by absolute economic growth or good headlines; they are driven by performance relative to expectations. Everything you listed, China's political risk, Japan's demographics, European stagnation, or the UK's GDP per capita, is common knowledge. Because it's common knowledge, it's already priced in. That's why ex-US equities trade at a massive valuation discount compared to the US. For US stocks to continue outperforming, US corporate earnings don't just need to be good, they need to constantly exceed the extremely aggressive growth expectations already baked into today's sky-high valuations. For cheap international stocks to outperform, they just need to turn out *slightly less terrible* than the dismal scenario the market has already priced in. Research has actually shown there is a [zero or slightly negative correlation between per-capita GDP growth and real stock returns.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927538X05000338) [[2]](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oddly-stock-market-returns-gdp-203439790.html) >I'll start buying as soon as Ex-US companies become household recognizable names. Waiting for companies to become household names before buying is literally a strategy for buying at the top. The entire point of value/international diversification is buying productive assets before the market prices them higher. Beyond that, ex-US companies are already household names: Nestle, Toyota, Samsung, Novo Nordisk, LVMH, Sony, Unilever, Shell, and ASML and TSMC (who are responsible for producing the chips inside the American tech everyone is bullish on). The US is the strongest market in the world today, but betting 100% of your portfolio on the assumption that current US valuation multiples will expand indefinitely, and that no other market will ever experience a multi-decade cycle again, seems wrong to me. It can't do this forever: indefinite relative outperformance is mathematically impossible unless you believe US equities will eventually account for 100% of global market cap and total global GDP. You are right though that we don't know when it might change. Hence why I just buy both and don't try to time it.

RuleSafe6767

Whenever trump starts auto-signing up his frenemies (France is going to patrol, UK will demine, etc) he's negotiating in the mirror.. And plan to TACO while saying, "we didn't need them anyway"

GungHoStocks

LOL Alessandro Zamboni of SYME listed in the UK. Say goodbye to all your monies lol

ShepherdOmega

Here UK, so close to breaking even.

zbern

SharkNinja, Inc. (SN), a global product design and technology company, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. Highlights for the Second Quarter 2026 as compared to the Second Quarter 2025 • Net sales increased 22.2% to $1,765.5 million. • Gross margin and Adjusted Gross Margin decreased 30 and 70 basis points, respectively. • Net income decreased 7.0% to $129.8 million. Adjusted Net Income increased 29.3% to $178.2 million. • Adjusted EBITDA increased 18.6% to $264.9 million, or 15.0% of net sales. Mark Barrocas, Chief Executive Officer, commented: “Q2 was a standout performance for SharkNinja, with net sales growth accelerating to 22.2%, our fastest pace since 2024, powered by broad-based strength across our categories, geographies, and channels. This quarter was a clear demonstration of the size and durability of our core business, an area we believe is often underestimated. Our largest, most established franchises like Cleaning and Blending continue to grow through diversification and relentless innovation, and our International business delivered 36.6% growth, accelerating yet again with strong results across the UK, Europe, and Latin America. That strength carried through to our bottom line, with Adjusted EBITDA up 18.6% and Adjusted Net Income Per Share up 29.9% year-over-year. Our steadfast commitment to solving consumer problems is resonating across the globe, and we believe the number of problems left to address is endless. We head into the second half of the year with real momentum and increasing confidence in our ability to deliver strong, profitable growth over the long term.” It blows my mind this stock up +450% in the last 5 years, +50% YTD. Cheesecake, BJs, and Sharks killing it this year lol

vjhally

Anyone in the UK done this ?

friiz1337

T212 is so far the best UK broker I've used. They even have a SIPP now.

StockLifter

No one is claiming that UK and France don't have problematic debt as well. For France you can see high yields as a result. Lucky for France is that they are in Europe which generally had better debt levels than others, and in theory they can shift borrowing to Eurobonds instead (if the situation gets dire enough for the bloc to allow it more). The UK had its debt scare already recently and is on thin ice..

Psychological_Fly109

ARM - UK semi up 77% YTD

SilverVikingTT

Projectile strikes cargo vessel off Oman A cargo vessel has reported being struck by an unknown projectile 20 nautical miles (37km) northeast of Khasab, Oman, the UK’s Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency says. UKMTO said authorities are investigating the incident. It advised vessels in the area to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity.

Policeman333

Here, let’s put it another way: Chinese universities are dwarfing Western universities in both quality of research and notable research. The west includes the USA, Australia, the UK, Scandinavian countries and Western Europe as a whole - the populations are comparable.

theguytomeet

I mean they’re getting lots of heat for their European government contracts. UK is bailing out because of a security risk. Any non US government who pursues their business are all at risk from a national security standpoint (of that government). I’ve been following them for 7 years now. We shall see. Their stock shot up around 10-15% once Trump won the election.

big_deal

I've always heard Japan's problems to be demographic decline and restrictive immigration. UK and USA are following them by about 10-20 years.

D2WilliamU

Nah the UK show has been shit since like season 5 One could argue as soon as they removed the smoking area the show went to shit They got too scared of being sued/people killing themselves/ people looking bad they trimmed off all the corners and after awhile all the contestants were just influencers going on for followers/clout Most of the contestants now have partners already when they go on. Camilla and Jamie were the only couple on that show worth shit anyway

seemsLetschat

Germany pulled out partly from contracts, UK is already thinking of it, others will join. Not good looking longterm atm.

Zealousideal_Wall627

No company from the UK is ever replicating that.

LeChevrotAuLaitCru

i like to look at data from at least 2 parameters - % and real number. i saw that france total debt is 3T, UK 3T, Japan 9T.

Lidlyogurtlover

Why is their debt so high? It doesn't strike me as a country with generous benefits or welfare, and their military is not as demanding like France or UK.

Thumbszilla

[Iran smuggling weapons and soldiers into the UK?](https://youtu.be/kxqQo0nELto?is=hoKrJR4nEjeIGUQm)

Prudent-Leading-8835

**UK economy faces recession if Strait of Hormuz remains closed, EY warns** **Oh yeeees, stop trump so it Can open up**

Severe-Selection-256

BREAKING  Tanker in Strait of Hormuz reports hearing explosion: UKMTO The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre has  reported an incident in the Strait of Hormuz, 20 nautical miles (37km) northeast of Khasab, Oman. “The master of a tanker reports hearing an explosion in close proximity of the vessel,” the UKMTO said in a statement.

mngos_wmelon1019

**Incident reported in Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO** The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre has [reported](https://www.ukmto.org/recent-incidents#76c4defd-dbed-4f9e-b40e-a36c0926949f) an incident in the Strait of Hormuz, 20 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman. “The master of a tanker reports hearing an explosion in close proximity of the vessel”, the UKMTO said in a statement.

mngos_wmelon1019

**Incident reported in Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO** The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre has [reported](https://www.ukmto.org/recent-incidents#76c4defd-dbed-4f9e-b40e-a36c0926949f) an incident in the Strait of Hormuz, 20 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman. “The master of a tanker reports hearing an explosion in close proximity of the vessel”, the UKMTO said in a statement.

Significant_Cover_48

Security consultancies Vanguard Tech and Marisks identified the ship as the Gaslog Shanghai LNG tanker. The UK Maritime Trade Operations had alerted that a vessel was struck in the strait off the Omani coast overnight, without identifying it. There was no environmental impact so far, the UKMTO said.

shiroandae

Well thing is, it’d also be far less relevant. UK is not their biggest market by far.

CryptoBoy-007

I'm not suggesting anything, only stating a corporate reality. No company executive in the S&P500 / EU/ UK will take a decision to authorise the use of a Chinese AI. Why do you think ChatGPT, Gemini , Anthropic and MSFT are developing their cyber security tools? The next phase in this development is exploite the systematic weakness these AI vibe coding is generating.

SirBuysHighALott

Can Microsoft ever get a break? Yahoo Finance: Microsoft (MSFT) Faces Consumer Probes Over Microsoft 365 And Copilot Changes. UK, Australian, and Italian regulators have opened investigations into Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) regarding Microsoft 365 subscription changes and the integration of Copilot features.

_Doomer_Wojack_

Iran doesn’t give a fuck lmfao 😂 🤌 BREAKING: Iran has reportedly struck an oil tanker approximately 11 nautical miles off the coast of Oman, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

Consistent_Panda5891

Tough when those muslims are having US aid and mossad as well... Guess is time to Spain to develop it's nuke to defend against a fresh renewal war... And once they have it they simple can launch special operation in Africa and get back Gibraltar as well from UK

Strike_Mission

**The strongest evidence** **1. Human Rights Watch — 16 January 2026** Human Rights Watch's investigation⁠ is probably one of the strongest early sources. HRW concluded that Iranian security forces carried out **mass killings of protesters and bystanders**, particularly after the protests escalated on **8 January**. It reported that **thousands were believed killed**, while Iran’s communications shutdown made independent verification difficult. Importantly, HRW wasn’t simply repeating Iranian opposition figures; it investigated the evidence available from witnesses, videos and other sources. **2. Amnesty International — January 2026** Amnesty independently reached an even stronger conclusion. It describes **8–9 January 2026 as a period of mass unlawful killings**, saying security forces killed protesters and bystanders on an unprecedented scale. Amnesty specifically characterises the events as **“massacres”**, rather than merely excessive crowd control. **3. The UK’s official country assessment** The British government subsequently incorporated the events into its own country assessment. The UK Home Office’s report on the **December 2025–January 2026 protests** confirms that the authorities conducted a severe crackdown and that the protests were largely suppressed by 11–13 January. That’s significant because this isn’t an Iranian opposition organisation making the allegation; it’s part of an official British government assessment. **The really important point: Iran itself acknowledged deaths** There is also an unusually useful piece of **Iranian state evidence**. On **21 January**, Iran’s own Martyrs Foundation reportedly acknowledged **3,117 deaths** associated with the demonstrations. Of those, **2,427 were classified as civilians and security forces**. Next!!

Flag_Shagger

because it’s a shithole, you know a country can both be *not* the bad guy and also an undesirable place to live? and for the record I live in the UK. I feel a lot safer here than I would ever do in the U.S., where you have SS officers kidnapping coloured people in broad daylight and a pedophile as the president.

Rosella2562

https://preview.redd.it/z71r4dmznmgh1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb8f9a07ee750ee997ed7a60c3bda62a2c4b1ac4 Scalping 0DTE SPX options last minute - Literally bought and sold the same minute at 3:59 (20:59 UK time) for a +300% profit in less than 30 seconds (Still barely covered my loss from earlier, so don’t recommend this if you care at all about your heart health lol)

thomasthetanker

I'm in the UK. Half my adverts are for car washing products (in the middle of a nationwide hosepipe ban) and half for gambling adverts which make my long suffering wife think that I have fallen off the wagon.

-mini-kuma

Heads Up! Possible Asia sell-off on Monday. UK KOSPI and NIKKEI ETFs sold off just before closing; HKOR ended UK trading +1.65% despite KOSPI closing +17%.

-sakuranbo

UK 10-year gilt yields 5% and exchange rate is $1.34 actually pretty good considering how most of the euro zone was zero or negative before covid

Moepenmoes

Ordered a package in the UK and 24 hours later it already arrived, you guys are crazy fast 👏

Sir_Lowestarp

The US market is more powerful and diverse than any other market. Our economy is very strong. Where else would you or anyone put your money? The shrinking economies of Germany? How about the powerhouse of... *Checks Europeans countries*... France? No. How about the population collapsing countries of South Korea? Maybe japan? How about the UK who has worse gdp than Mississippi? Nope. The USA sounds pretty good to me.