UK

axewoodsman

Selling the treasury bonds is already a given, as they reduce trade with US and diversifying abroad. That is why we have been seeing Bond Yield climbing to new highs since 2007. Many countries are doing the same. UK and Japan will be force to sell as well, they are going broke.

MagnesiumKitten

Statistics Canada February 2026 Canada's 10 principal trading partners – Balance-of-payments basis, seasonally adjusted, current dollars **Trade balance** United States 11,944 millions of dollars United Kingdom 1,834 million \[UK is buying Gold Bullion\] Netherlands 68 million \[Aluminium with the cheap Can Dollar\] Japan -29 million Switzerland -55 million Italy -430 million South Korea -639 million Germany -814 million Mexico -1,677 million China -2,880 million Holland needs to buy 200x the aluminum to pay for your light bills I guess

Optimal-Cow-3278

Why did the EU, South Korea, Japan and the UK made agreements “in this setting”?

magicbellend

Not sure what you are asking - if your asking about data residency then there are various different ways you can use GCP or Azure to keep data in EU or UK locales

SignificanceLate7002

Canada has made deals with China, Germany, UK, UAE, India and more in the last 18 months.

Goldpeaches32

I believe anything inside USA, Canada, or UK is a 3rd world country

Buddah_Chillz420

Governments can still collect taxes on alcohol in a private or semi-private system. This is hardly a ‘libertarian’ point of view. Nearly all western nations with alcohol sales are not government monopolies. UK, Australia, EU… if I were libertarian I would be advocating making my own moonshine and selling it on my property tax free. That’s not what I am suggesting.

Eyoba_19

Yeah, IB are quite hard to get passed, but they're kind of the jack of all trades when it comes to trading, they just do EVERYTHING and to be fair quite well too. Happy to help, but if you're in the UK I understand the tax benefits you get from IG, so moving over to IB might not be ideal.

Tay_Tay86

yes they can do that. our oil prices would get cut, but the problem is that it would increase prices in competing markets, like brent. The UK and Japan hold a lot of US debt, in order to buy oil, they would have to sell treasuries. This could create higher interest rates. That's my opinion on what export controls would do. If you burn the entire world by shutting your door, then they are going to ask for their money back.

Eyoba_19

Yeah heard they're famous in the UK for that. Just checked for myself, they're about 2.5%+ the benchmark, which is quite high compared to IB. Not to push you over to them or anything but thought you should know. If IG does options and spreads are good you can do the strat there too

Automatic-Cake-8770

Oh really? Which ones or all? Rigged 😂 I was in the gme short squeeze with longs at first on January 2021, I was doing it with IBKR at the time, I think i had maybe 20 ish positions total throughout the run and never had any issues at all. I know that folk daytrade shorting had issues but simply due to real shortage of shares to borrow at times - never issues to open long/closing short or halting. I have UK equivalent of US's roth ira (stocks ISA) on Trading 212 and theres been issues on 212 too both opening and closing positions during gme run.

Tammer_Stern

For context, Switzerland is under 1% and China is around 1.7%. The UK is over 5%.

Automatic-Cake-8770

Yep that makes sense. We have a bank in the UK with bottom end value for money but glorious UI and it's taking market by the storm (Monzo bank). Same with popular trading vendor Trading212, no options but great UI and you can short as CFD on margin etc. Back to real brokers u guys have tastytrade tho innit? App is shit but webui is decent no? Does tt have a big market share? Never see tt screenshots here or on wsb

fxnighttrader

I love traveling too. Mostly because I can pick and choose what I want to do and then come home. Living in a third world country is 1000% different than traveling to one. Yea, the U.S. has issues but the U.S. is not going to become Mumbai in our lifetimes. I’ll put up with A LOT before I’m moving to any third world country. And there a lot of first world countries that people romanticize about like France, Germany, the UK, that no longer match the postcards we all saw in our youth. There is a reason for the saying “The grass is sheaths greener on the other side”

2020isgreat

BREAKING: Foreign holdings of US Treasuries dropped -$72 billion in June, to $9.30 trillion, to the lowest level since January. This marks the 3rd monthly decline over the last 4 months, totaling -$190 billion. Japan, the largest foreign holder, reduced its holdings by -$26 billion in June, to $1.12 trillion, the lowest since January 2025. The UK, the 2nd-largest holder, cut its holdings by -$9 billion, to $940 billion, the 2nd-largest on record. China, the 3rd-largest holder, trimmed its holdings by -$26 billion, to $633 billion, the lowest since September 2008. Meanwhile, foreign official holders, such as central banks and government entities, reduced their Treasury holdings by -$70 billion in June, to $3.78 trillion, the lowest since February 2024. Bessent you've done it again

Green_Potato_3993

I saved 20 myself and have 15 left over after the emergency fund(I’m at university and parents kinda support me). Is it sensible to put all of it in a stock and shares ISA on Barclays? Or should I split it up? I’m in the UK and I’m 20. No job now but full time student.

SamLeCoyote_Fix_1

100% True!! $Palantir Technologies Inc  Out of UK 🔥 Sky News Reported Arcturis Data, Akrivia Health To Merge In £140M Deal To Gain Ground In NHS Patient Data Battle With Palantir Technologies

Every_Recover_1766

Meghan and Harry are returning to the UK to fill the gap left by Prince Andrew. The children will be fine like nothing ever happened for the royal family

Spiderbatman

You don't need to be bro. I'm UK and I use it

jailtheorange1

The UK has had massive surveillance long before flock was even a word used in this context in America

Bothurin

This is huge news and should be front page on a lot more papers. I saw a video recently that said that the reason the ultra wealthy pay more tax in the US than UK was specifically because of this.. and now it’s removed

No_Presentation9490

bessent was hand picked by george soros to help him scam the UK out of 6 billion dollars. you have dunning krugers.

soundtrackband

UK no longer has freedom. Germany no longer has freedom. Canada is on the borderline.

AlternativeSharp3854

IMHO I think the government cycles between all 3, and we get worse in every way. The fed is constantly trying to control inflation but QE is the only realistic path if political leaders want to remain favourable. Higher inflation, worse economy, and cuts where they can. Just be grateful you’re not in Canada or UK

ShittyUsernane1222

\> important fed meeting place called Jackson hole which is kind of ghey 🐻. \> US treasury led by an 🏳️‍🌈🐻 which bet against the UK in 1992 To say US bullish portfolios cooked would be an underestimate of the century.

ShittyUsernane1222

it would be totally an tragedy if France, EU, UK suddenly decided to crack down on offshore tax havens, tighten tax and NGO, Lobbying regulations unannounced and annexed offshore tax havens like Monaco, Seychelles in the aftermath. /s due to obvious reasons.

wildcat1055

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are moving back to the UK? Calls it is.

DONNIENARC0

Getting a functional reactor running seems like the first step. I'm pretty sure SMRs don't really exist anywhere outside of Russia & China at this point. > Japan brought a test reactor online in 2024, Argentina has units in advanced construction, and dozens of other nations (including the U.S., UK, and Czech Republic) have SMRs in planning, regulatory review, or early development stages. You can track global progress via the World Nuclear Association.

Icy_Jelly_315

Um in the UK there's a body which assesses whether drugs are good enough value for the NHS to pay for them

ShittyUsernane1222

there is a bit of comedic irony in the fact that bessent worked for Soros betting against uk government in 1992 only for him to end in a position working for an government trying to stave off the inevitable and justified short selling wave and fumbling like the UK did in 1992. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_Wednesday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday)

Sure_Bite_3248

This is a good reply, thank you. I do have the majority of my investments in ETFs (US/UK trackers, emerging markets, and some others) for the exact reasons you stated. No one can see the future so I’m betting on the overall market going up and I intend to keep it this way. I am planning on experimenting a little with research/modelling and was hoping someone could give some real world insight into how these two strategies compare, but I do really appreciate your comment!

NobodyElectronic9970

# UK S&S ISA providers with non-resident options? Hi all, I currently have Trading 212 & Halifax (now Lloyds) S&S ISAs. I'm UK resident. Long-term I may relocate to Spain for family reasons and am starting to discover various complications. I understand that I would not be able to contribute further money to an ISA if abroad. I know that I'd be able to retain my T212 & Halifax ISAs if non-UK resident. Halifax have confirmed that I would not be able to BUY funds/stocks and any sales or transfers would have to be done via phone (online access is limited to viewing only). I am currently investigating the situation with T212. In future I may want to hold Gilts (which are tradeable on Halifax but not T212). Can anyone recommend S&S ISA providers that allows gilt trading and allow as much activity as possible if non-UK resident (if indeed buying stocks is actually allowed in any ISA if non-UK resident)? I am aware that if I'm Spain-resident that I'd be liable to taxes so keeping funds in an ISAs wouldn't make a difference, but it would be preferable in case there's a return to the UK. Perhaps people could also recommend general investment account providers that I'd be able to open accounts with in the UK, but would then be able to fully utilise when in Spain. Thanks

alba_Phenom

In any other Western democratic country the elected leader would have been fired a long time ago. America really needs to have a look at itself and stop treating the Presidency like some Quasi-Monarch that can't be touched until their Holy ordained 4 year limit is up. The UK have been through about 7 Prime Ministers in the last 6 months.

HabitAcceptable8621

Allies? Who the FUCK is he talking about. Not The EU, not The UK. That cunt has threatened to invade 2 of the US's former allies and imposed punitive sanctions on its former allies in NATO because they sent a trigger force to Greenland. Fuck the US!

FinePerformance1046

There’s a lot of inequality activists in the UK right now, but they would lose their fucking minds if they lived in the US 😂

hermeskino715

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No_Presentation9490

actually greenspan was a fucking moron bessent was hand picked by george soros to lead his UK office

ajibtunes

Prince Harry and Megan to return to UK 😱😱😱

Oracular_Pig

How, though? 7 years ago, they weren't where I am in the UK, now they have tonnes of items where I am.

_grey_wall

Nike has these really nice shoes that seem to be exclusive to UK. Look like springs all around. Not sure why they do that

zashuna

China has already been doing that for like the past year or so. They're now the third largest foreign holder of US debt, behind Japan and UK. The bigger problem is if Japanese starts dumping US debt, which they may need to do to defend the Yen from continuing to slide in value. The BOJ could raise interest rates, but they're hesitant to do so.

DegenRatStrangler

Very possible. Potentially probable. But my returns over the past 5 years have been enough that I’m not going to cry over a few percent. Plus, my recent UK gilt allocations ‘should’ do well enough in the medium term. We’ll see. Do I think this run has another 5 years? Maybe. But the economic effects of it doing so will destroy the market. This bull run is based on borrowed cash and Fed policy. It’s very reckless. And I’d rather sleep at night knowing my investments are safe and my cash is at hand. I also think that with a change of Government policy, starting in November, Warsh will get the true price discovery he’s been promising for the past 15 years. I also think balance sheet reduction will come to pass. In which case we’ll lose a lot of retail liquidity out of the market as the yolo class decides that this isn’t for them. It won’t be the first time a generation of retail traders disappeared. And it did wonders for my portfolio in the 15 years that followed.

GeoLogic23

ACB with a small acquisition to expand into the UK. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aurora-cannabis-furthers-global-medical-cannabis-growth-with-accretive-acquisition-of-internode-pharma-limited-and-hap-pharma-limited-expanding-distribution-access-to-the-uk-medical-cannabis-market-302855564.html

Electrical_Panda_326

In Europe you've got an excellent ETF, VDIV (or TDGB in the UK), if you include dividends, it grew 130% over the last 5 years. In the USA there is a stock called ET, grew 110% over the last 5 years and pays 6% dividend on top of that.

Dudebobski

Haven’t heard much on $ALF / $ALFUW lately besides the extension. Anyone still following this one? Pure speculation list: • **Jagex** — Gerhard/Hodgson history • **Marmalade** — UK gaming fit • **Pulsiv** — Gerhard chairman • **Build A Rocket Boy** — Gerhard ties • **JustWontDie** — big team overlap • **AI/gaming** — Cambridge network • **Cyber/deep-tech** — wild card Nothing suggesting talks, just brainstorming.. Feel free to add some names! Love the Reddit hivemind.

_AkasunaNoSasori

I’ve been hearing this doom loop theory for almost a decade, there’s no sign of decline. By the time US replaced UK, US was bigger economy decades ago. China per capita GDP is a joke in comparison and they are no where near to USA. Hegemon always treats self interest as threat to their dominance. Everyone who is alive today won’t see US go down in their lifetime.

Cheekycharmer95

I’m UK based but genuinely I may open a Robinhood just to do that. It’s a goood idea

Psyqlone

*Fine.* [to the liberal panelist] *Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paychecks, but he ...* [gesturing to the conservative panelist] *... gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money, it costs votes. It costs airtime and column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fuckin' smart, how come they lose so GODDAMN ALWAYS?!* *... and* [to the conservative panelist] *with a straight face, you're going to tell students that America's so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, BELGIUM ... has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.* *... and you ... sorority girl ... yeah ... just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, one-hundred seventy-eighth in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. Now, none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about?! Yosemite?!!!* *We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. ... by great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.*

likamuka

Rough sleepers is a funny Victorian term still used in the UK for homeless bums.

drakilian

Their 100 year bond was in UK Sterling, could be they're just distributibg their debts so it's not all in one currency

hegdefucker

They all think they’re the greatest. Brexit UK another silly example. Every single country.

Various_Couple_764

To the repubilicans socialism is communism. Communism was a social movement the over through monarchs that didn't care about the people. Similar events happened in france, UK, and many other contras. But within years Dictators guided to The communist movement into a dictartor ship. And to control the population they dictators took over all businesses and and naturally the companes were run to benifte the dictators not the people. So the Soviet union had numerous supply shortages, and government services were not well run or didn't work at all and the police were really solders in the military to did whatever the doctors wanted.

Significant-Arm-6050

I don’t buy that harmful design and profitability are the same thing. Cars still sold after seatbelts were mandated. Cigarettes still sell with warning labels and without being to able to advertise. Regulation reshapes markets all the time without killing them, it just kills the most exploitative version of the product. If a company’s business model only works when kids health is jeopardized, then that’s the argument for regulation. And sure people used to VPNs to get around the UK ban but that only measures people trying to get around a law. The people who want to watch porn that badly we’re always going to do that. But it stopped some people and that’s what matters. It doesn’t have to be perfect to still make a difference.  You also switched arguments from regulation not being justified regulation won’t work because some people evade it. Some people will successfully evade every law or regulation that’s ever been passed but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have them 

librariancap

>would it be a good idea to move some of my VTI to an equally weighted S&P 500 ETF Vanguard has a whole article on this (UK version linked below): [https://www.vanguard.co.uk/professional/insights/what-to-consider-when-choosing-between-index-weighting-approaches](https://www.vanguard.co.uk/professional/insights/what-to-consider-when-choosing-between-index-weighting-approaches)

No-Refrigerator-6330

I’ve been thinking about this, Russian oil economy is fucked due to sanctions and conflict. Hormuz and gulf states are also fucked. What other major oil producer is there other than the US? I’ll give you BP and shell which I believe are UK. this sucks for every consumer, but not for specifically US oil producers

Prestigious_Rod6969

UK Oil Brent - Oct 2026 (UKOIL) 91.47

kerplunktard

look beneath the numbers, Baidu is the world leader in robo taxis, just started trials in UK, Switzerland & Sth Korea, fully operational n Dubai and Abu Dhabi & China, remember when the tesla bulls were saying that robotaxis would make tesla into a multi trillion dollar company, well $BIDU are wiping the floor with (maybe it will be next year)tesla, thats before you even get into Baidu's chip manufacturing subsidiary, their market leading netflix style iQIYI subsidiary, their investment arm (worth more than their entire mkt cap) etc etc, todays drop is a bargain price chance to get into one of the rising stars of the future

Future_Bee_8244

International stocks like the UK have more headroom right now than the US market. Time to switch

Dull-Tea8669

Most of the bonds are foreign countries though, unless you are suggesting to go to war with China, Japan and the UK at the same time

Su_ButteredScone

In the UK Nike it's not even the price, but that most upstanding adults don't want to be seen in anything made by Nike because of its association with chavs, roadmen and generally the sorts of people society looks down at. They're usually proud of showing the Nike logo on as many of their clothes as possible. Like, I've seen people comment on their friends wearing Nike, like "Oh, I never saw you as the type". So it's definitely an image thing too.

AnyBug1039

I don't know what it's like in the USA but in the UK BK is OK

NinjAsger

For sector diversification - if not just going with a global index as most people seem to think is the best idea. I have Xtrackers Europe Healthcare - because demographies are getting older and I know nothing of medicine etc. I have Ishares Emerging Markets - because selecting single stocks in Asia is difficult. I think Rio Tinto could belong in most portfolios - it's UK listing removes double taxation - its a massive mining conglomorate using its money machine (iron) to grow in green metals (aluminium, cobber, lithium). Essentially, a diversified miner. Not financial advice.

confused_teabagger

>A vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz suffered engine room damage and a crew casualty after being struck by an unknown projectile, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency. Does "unknown" mean that we did to to proceed with stronger "persuasion" in Iran, especially since the MOU expired yesterday. Really convenient! So either red or flat today.

Cav829

>A vessel in the Strait of Hormuz has reported being struck by a projectile, the UK’s Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) says. “The Company Security Officer has reported that the vessel was struck by an unknown projectile while conducting an outbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz,” it said. “The impact caused damage to the engine room and resulted in a crew casualty,” it added, adding that the remaining crew is being assisted by the Omani coastguard.

No-Estimate-1510

US normally wouldn't care if you used USD to save your currency in distress (which Japan is in). The problem is UST yields are too high for the US government's comfort and Japan dumping UST will drive yields even higher. Japan is also not a normal country but closer to a US colony. The US heavily influences Tokyo's national prosecutorial services and can direct its prosecutors to go after any Japanese politician if it wanted (and all senior politicians have dirt on them, you just need the warrant to dig deep & long enough). US also controls Tokyo's airspace and has major military presence so if Japanese politicians really pissed off America they could easy Maduro the anyone in the Japanese government. When you know that the US could ruin your career and life by dicta if you didn't follow orders you are going to take that into account in your policy making. If it were India or another more independent country (even Argentina kept their Yuan swap line despite US pressures) they would have sold already but Japan's choices are more constrained. Also, since China stopped rolling over UST in 2018 (they let their UST holdings maturing without buying new ones) its UST holdings decreased by about $600bn, this mirrors the increase in UST holdings of Japan ($400bn) and UK ($200bn). Japan and especially UK are running large trade deficits (UK had been in trade deficit for a long time) and economically it doesn't make sense for them to substantially upsize their UST holdings when current account is negative. It's likely that US already exerted significant political influence over the Japanese and British gov to prop up the UST since China stopped buying.

-mini-kuma

It's illegal to drink and drive in UK, but I saw many Americans drive after drinking when I visited Disney World in Florida.

-mini-kuma

Do Americans know Cointreau liquor? Love it. Sometimes in the UK, it's £16 ($22) for 0.5L. Best drink for me to trade.

ShittyUsernane1222

\> 🥭 wanting to tariff the UK again 1776 and its consequences. His Majesty should mobilize canadian troops to re annex the lost colonies.

RuleSafe6767

We will have to wait to see the filings, but the news of him buying a soccer team in the UK to get in with the cool kids like Ryan Reynolds, means that there is going to more selling pressure anyway, so thats another headwind. The big headwind today is the wall of call options sitting at 260, 262.5 and 265. Go check it on Yahoo AMZN option chain "open interest" column. The MMs have sold it down right below that 260 level lol

No_Presentation9490

bessent literally hand picked by george soros and helped him made 5 billion dollars from the UK crisis, if you think hes not playing 17D chess youre regarded

AliStarr182

Ahh yes, the UK. The only other English speaking country in the world that appreciates humour.

mondeomantotherescue

You cannot build data centres fast enough in the UK at the moment. The space is pre sold. I was speaking to a data centre developer Saturday. The big problem they are having is all data centres getting tarred with the same brush and getting public backlash because of the likes of Amazon running gas turbines on site or musk poisoning that town

FeverTreeCloud

Happy in UK

NoCommonDog

The Canadian PM Carney is working with his central banker contacts around the world to coordinate resistance to US treasuries - withholding purchases at auctions, selling treasuries, resisting rolling over maturing bonds, etc to drive up the US interest costs on Trillions of maturing debt this fall as a FUCK-YOU to Trump and America over the tariffs. Japan, UK, France, Canada, China are about to ass-fuck the US economy with 100s of billions of increased debt servicing costs. Americans are going to lose their Social Security and Medicare as payback for Trumps Tariffs. Thank-you and Fuck you for your attention to this matter.

DoubleIntroduction25

One of the biggest issues with liquidity in the housing market right now is how locked in people with sub 4% mortgages are. Which is understandable. Ground level examples I've got two co workers who both want to get out of their homes but even if they downsized they'd end up with a larger payment...so yeah they are for sure not doing that. 1 is someone who has been half way done with a divorce for 3 years, they are on good terms and know what they want to do but the spouse who is keeping the house is at 3% and can't afford the bigger payment if the refinanced to buy the other out. The other is a single dad of 3 who is now an empty nester. He can afford his home no problem but would like to downsize to save on utilities and have less to clean but downsizing makes no sense if your payment is going to go up or hardly move. It's almost like this issues with the UK housing market caused by stamp tax. Empty nesters dont want to downsize and get hit with a 5 figure bill so supply stays thin and no one move on to or up the property ladder.

ciarandeceol1

And they probably bought years ago at a much lower price.  There's an investment trust which EU and UK folk will know called SMT which had a x25 return after initially investing in SpaceX in 2018. It had a run in the past year and it was a great IPO play.

Resident-Banana-7883

sorry, I fact checked myself, here's all the times we intervened with the yen one way or another. 1971 — Nixon Shock / early floating period US ended dollar-gold convertibility, indirectly triggering yen revaluation, though this predates the modern FX-intervention framework. September 1985 — Plaza Accord The US, Japan, West Germany, France, and the UK signed the agreement on September 22, 1985, at the Plaza Hotel in New York, agreeing to weaken the US dollar and coordinate currency intervention September 2001 The BOJ intervened to sell yen after the September 11 attacks, with the ECB and New York Fed operating on the BOJ's behalf March 18, 2011 — Post-earthquake/tsunami US monetary authorities intervened on this date, buying $1 billion against the yen, as reported by the New York Fed to Congress. This was a coordinated G-7 intervention carried out by the NY Fed alongside Japanese authorities, the ECB, and Canada/UK. 1998 — Asian Financial Crisis The US last intervened to support the yen in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis (Council on Foreign Relations)

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