UK

jamieperkins9999

The one benefit to the UK - we have 'spread bets', and its how I do all my trading. You never own the stock, you simply bet if it will go up or down and choose by how much. So I can bet for every $1 MSTR moves up i get £100, but then lose £100 for every $1 MSTR goes down. And you can bet it will go down in the same way. You can end the position whenever you want or set a stop loss. Oh and theres no tax to pay because its considered gambling and you dont pay tax on gambling in the UK

blalah

The UK actually coined the term "soccer" to differentiate it from the "ruggers" (rugby guys). We just stole it because American Football was the tits. It still is the tits.

Merltron

I wonder how this will impact Sky/Now to in the UK

hoopaholik91

I mean where else are you stoked to put your money? UK? Germany? China?

SojournerInThisVale

Would love someone to rate my portfolio. Been doing this, now, for five years. I’ve managed to get decent rates of returns. Aim is for a mixture of growth and dividend growth Rolls-Royce 8.4% Broadcom 8.3% Nvidia 6.1% National Grid 6.5% Applied Materials 6.1% Legal & General 5.6% L&G Cybersecurity ETF (ISPY) 5.1% 3i Group 4.9% Diploma 4.9% Costco 4.6% Sage 3.3% L&G Clean Water ETF 3.1% Relx 3.1% Greencoat UK Wind 2.8% Coca-Cola HBC 2.8% Games Workshop . 2.7% Ashtead Group 2.6% Cerillion 2.5% Halma 2.5% Bunzl 2.3% Aviva 2.2% Volex 1.9% Home Depot 1.9% Marks & Spencer 1.7% Ashtead Technology 1.4% Premier Foods 1.3% Trade Desk 1.0%

xMoZzzx

What do you mean? UK, EU, Japan, South Korea.. just china is missing…

Sapporo2026

More shitty content from the UK?

mikeydoc96

Very likely it won't get through the UK either without compromises. Sky TV in the UK is the only place you can watch HBO and has been for decades. It would effectively kill their USP and cause job losses.

Comprehensive_Web887

You’d be surprised what a holiday break to see some part of the world would do to your mindset. You don’t need to splash out. As someone said a week trip to Europe could be fun. And you don’t have to go to Paris or London where prices are expensive. Do if you can of course, UK and London has a fantastic culture, music, theatre, clubs, theatres etc. But you can also go somewhere like Croatia. Beautiful country, nice people. For example arrive in Split and spend a few days walking around town taking in the sites and the foreign flavour, may be go out to a bar or a club. Then take a trip to the island if Hvar which is close by and do same as above unless it’s during the time of the music festival and you want to party. Everyone speaks English or enough of it to communicate with all the US, Australian, English, French etc tourists that go there annually. Trips by yourself are great. And often not only take you out of your comfort zone but also being not tied to a group of friends you get to meet random people and do stuff together. The world is a big place and most of it is no worse in terms of safety than anywhere in US, often safer as long as you don’t walk around with with “gullible” on your forehead. You won’t feel like you are out of place and will have a lot of fun.

Haseki-Hurrem-Sultan

It's also probably the hardest combination to get through UK and EU antitrust too. WBD, Paramount, and Sky/Comcast were all subscale in Europe so I imagine they'd have a relatively easy time getting past regulators. Netflix-WBD is strengthening an already dominant player, so is likely a harder sell to the CMA and EU Commission.

Naive_Arachnid_1022

I paid for full access to optionswithryan after following him for half a year on YT. Yes there's so much out there for free, and i wouldn't say any course / access is necessary, but i made the annual cost of his program / group back within 2 weeks. He answers all questions, DMs and shares his trades as of when and more importatly the reasoning behind them. I also really like his markets updates. I'm UK based so don't stay as close to all the US economic / company news as i perhaps should and his summaries really help me with that. I personally think it's well worth the money and it's definitely a next step beyond his YT content (as fantatsic as that is). But as others have said, you can definitely make do on your own, his group has just taken me to the next level and accelerated my learning

gagagagaNope

That $85bn figure is very, very wrong. Fed say $4trn which is $22k+ each. The poverty line is about income, and is completely arbitrary (in the UK the charities kept redefining it because there weren't enough poor people - it's now those below 60% of average income rather than the earlier 40 or 50%). In the bottom 50% you've people at the bottom in net debt, people above them at +/-$0 with no debt or real assets and people just under the 50% that have some fairly substantial assets and much smaller debt (that 50% point is the median, remember the US is a very wealthy country). Ironically, some of the very poorest by simple measurements of wealth will be people like new graduate surgeons or lawyers - many hundreds of thousands of debt, few assets, but by this measure they're at the bottom of the pile.

Naive_Arachnid_1022

Interactive Brokers is what i use, Robinhood is also now viable in the UK for options trading

Concept-Plastic

TSLA UK sales drop 19%. Sold 4 cars in India vs 20k ( BYD ) Full porting TSLA calls

1337_Ali

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has stated that he expects the Melenoma Cancer Vaccine Phase 3 interim results to come out in 2026 and approval by 2027. The UK is set up to fast track the decision. I am actually expecting the cancer vaccine to come out by late 2026.

GeoLogic23

Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke. He was indicted by Trump's own justice department in July. Because of this Leiweke was forced to step down as CEO of Oak View Group. [Oak View Group is a major player in sports and entertainment arenas](https://www.oakviewgroup.com/venues/). They have also been partnered for a couple years with [Green Monke for hemp-derived THC beverages](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/10/19/2763417/0/en/St-Peter-s-Drinks-and-Oak-View-Group-Partner-to-Introduce-Green-Monk%C3%A9-Hemp-Derived-Drinks-at-Live-Entertainment-Venues-Throughout-U-S-and-UK.html), with plans to launch them throughout their arena venues as it is allowed. I know they were plans to launch them at Amerant Bank Arena (Florida Panthers) a while back but I don't think that happened. Green Monke subsequently [partnered with Cookies](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250116546614/en/Cookies-and-Green-Monk-Bring-New-THC-Infused-Drinks-to-Ten-US-States) for hemp-derived THC beverages early in 2025, launching them at Circle K and Total Wine & More. Oak View Group is also partnered with Kevin Durant (35 Ventures) to operate CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore. Kevin Durant has several cannabis investments, and [CFG Bank is one of the associated companies](https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/e0fac382-6c04-425a-8e6c-3aefadce96f4/print/) on the lobbying registration for the National Medicinal Cannabis Coalition, along with Cohen Inc and Curio Wellness. CFG Bank entered the cannabis space in early 2021 after working with Curio.

obb223

P/E of 18 still even though, as you pointed out, margins will get squeezed because they will have to drop prices. Where is the growth going to come from if they already have 90% market share and the number of cars isn't going to increase that much? If you want an undervalued and growing UK company have you looked at Greggs?

DecrimIowa

Japan, sure, but also the USA, Europe, UK... hyperinflation triggered by turbulence in the global bond markets as a response to a liquidity crisis is one potential scenario for how "the great reset" could play out (especially combined with a transition to a digital tokenized multi-CBDC economic system and/or a cyberattack impeding the functionality of legacy market systems) this would of course screw over boomers and retail investors, whose savings would be greatly reduced in value. but i don't think that concern for the man on the street would stop the bankers whose primary concerns are maintaining stability and consolidating control.

lupinle1

Why does it always dump at LSE's close. What's wrong with the UK?

LasyKuuga

Job market biggest cut since 2022 for US Biggest cut since 2021 for UK FTSE green SPY flat rn but green EOD Chat make it make sense pls

Pristine_Hurry_4693

**DRTS’s clinical, regulatory, financial and commercial achievements and progress:** ‏FDA Breakthrough Device Designation ‏FDA TAP program inclusion ‏FDA MDSAP certification ‏FDA IDE’s for **five** cancers and counting ‏**FDA PHASE 3** completion for one indication in H1 2026 ‏FDA Phase 2 and other stages of trials going on in parallel for different indications (cancer types) ‏FDA approval for commercial factory in the US, with other factories built and more in planing ⁠100% tumor response rate in early FDA trials ‏Effective against all tumor types, including unmet needs like Pancreas, Lungs, Brain (GBM), Breast etc… ‏Activates immune system response ⁠**50+ clinical sites worldwide** (including USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Italy…) ‏Patents, IP and more…

optimus-prim3

We are witnessing a clear rise in escapism and social isolation across the Western world, a trend that has accelerated over the past five to ten years. One of the most measurable drivers is the growing political and values chasm between young men and young women. In almost every Western country, men under 40 are shifting rightward while women in the same age bracket are shifting leftward—the widest gender gap in political identification ever recorded. This polarisation is not politically neutral in private life: over half of young women now say political compatibility is a prerequisite for dating or marriage, compared to just over 40% of young men. The result is predictable and already visible in the data—marriage rates continue to plummet, now roughly half their post-war peak in the US and down over 40% since the 1970s in the UK and most of Western Europe. When traditional pair-bonding becomes harder, people seek substitutes. The voids once filled by a spouse or long-term partner are increasingly occupied by pets, pornography, AI companions, OnlyFans, and immersive gaming. Pet ownership among Millennials and Gen Z is at all-time highs; OnlyFans net revenue has grown from \~$380 m in 2020 to over $1.4 bn in 2024; and the average age of a U.S. gamer, far from being a teenager, is now 35–36 and has hovered in the mid-30s for over a decade. These are not random cultural quirks—they are structural, durable shifts in how hundreds of millions of people, especially men, are choosing to spend their time, money, and emotional energy. That makes them investable. A relatively pure-play “escapism & substitute companionship” basket today can be constructed from three core pillars: 1. Gaming (distraction & achievement) EA, TTWO, Ubisoft, Roblox, Embracer, Nexon, Krafton, NCSoft, Square Enix — deliberately excluding the mega-caps (MSFT, Sony, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet) to keep the exposure undiluted. 2. Pets & pet health (unconditional companionship) Chewy (CHWY), Zoetis (ZTS), and to a lesser extent Petco (WOOF) or Freshpet (FRPT). 3. Adult entertainment & hobbyist escapism (sexual & narrative fulfilment) PLBY Group (Playboy) and, more powerfully, Games Workshop (GAW.L) — the near-monopoly owner of Warhammer, a franchise with extreme customer stickiness and incoming mainstream exposure via the Henry Cavill Amazon series. These industries are not only growing; they are growing because the underlying social trend—delayed or abandoned family formation—is still in its early innings. As long as the political gender divide keeps widening and the institutional trust that once supported marriage keeps eroding, demand for these substitute goods will compound. In short: loneliness is becoming a multi-trillion-dollar structural theme, and a concentrated basket of pure-play stocks allows an investor to capture it without betting on the broader market

Such_Coin

TSLA UK sales drop 19%. Full port calls at open.

Maleficent-Grab-2271

Trading 212 I live in the UK. Probs gonna switch to hood when they get their act together

Legal_Lettuce6233

Why do you think Palantir exists? Why do you think there's a huge wave in the UK, EU and Australia for chat control and age ID? Yeah, something's coming, and it ain't pretty. I feel like for the first time in years, more alcohol will be burned than drunk.

Traditional_Honey108

Compare the UK numbers. 7% increase in income. 100% increase in income tax receipts

JtotheDude

In terms of revenue vaccines may be “old news” in the US (for now until we see the inevitable outbreaks, unfortunately), but production is active globally in the UK https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87jx5gnv23o and Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2025/09/government-of-canada-announces-major-milestone-in-the-canadian-biomanufacturing-sector.html and Taiwan, Australia and elsewhere.

Ok_Cry7572

Good thing the UK is banning gas and diesel cars for the name of emissions cause that will definitely help/s... Let's take a look at planes for example: If ATC or the pilots mess up even one approach, they may burn an additional 10,000 lbs of fuel or 1500 gallons. Thats over 5 years of driving a regular car in terms of carbon emissions. They really think cars are the problem😂

Arathaon185

So fucked up that they can fuck with winners. I'm from the UK and worked in a betting shop. We had red customers who were problem gamblers and you had to have sign off from head office to put a bet on for them. One guy on there though didn't have a problem he just won too much so they fucked with him and treat him like a degenerate in the hopes it would put him off.

sugeCRG

UK: Capital gains is 24% but we have a stocks and shares ISA which is a tax advantaged account you can put up to 20k in every year, all gains from that are tax exempt and you can withdraw whenever you want. We’re highly taxed and fiscal drag is a big problem, but the ISA allowance is great

Pristine_Hurry_4693

**DRTS’s clinical, regulatory, financial and commercial achievements and progress:** ‏FDA Breakthrough Device Designation ‏FDA TAP program inclusion ‏FDA MDSAP certification ‏FDA IDE’s for **five** cancers and counting ‏**FDA PHASE 3** completion for one indication in H1 2026 ‏FDA Phase 2 and other stages of trials going on in parallel for different indications (cancer types) ‏FDA approval for commercial factory in the US, with other factories built and more in planing ⁠100% tumor response rate in early FDA trials ‏Effective against all tumor types, including unmet needs like Pancreas, Lungs, Brain (GBM), Breast etc… ‏Activates immune system response ⁠**50+ clinical sites worldwide** (including USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Italy…) ‏Patents, IP and more…

DaemonTargaryen2024

>and the annual fee is only 0.75% That's very high. >Of course it could drop 30% and I’d lose 90% Well other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? >but I would invest even more aggressively in that case and be ok with a longer time frame. I think you need to reexamine this. Most people freak out and make emotional decisions when they experience those types of losses. >I know people say they aren’t ideal but in the UK it’s the only way I can utilise leverage while being completely tax free. Investing is a math problem which has been solved a long time ago. Just stick the script (buy-and-hold broad market index funds for 40 years) and you'll live very comfortably. Don't bother with this leverage crap, it's how people stay poor.

80s_JDM

FTimes: "[UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble](https://www.ft.com/content/9d90d557-48e5-4f4b-a927-88071cef8ea9)" (paywall)

Ecstatic_Food1982

>Several classes of shares are not historically overvalued (based on CAPE ratios, PE ratios, etc.). >These include non-tech US shares, European shares, UK shares and more. Plenty of overvalued UK and European shares.

ThatFUTGuy

$HOOD bringing out UK Stocks & Shares ISA 100% tax free profits v boolish

Efficient_Bet_1891

This exactly. M2 growth is around 4%, and cash flow velocity is at around 1.4, it has been much higher. (By contrast, UK is less than 1, and likely to get worse) Cash flow velocity at a reasonable rate supports a tax return which is better in a passive manner and the balancing act of inflation, interest rates, tightening or easing has been a major success of the Fed in getting out of the excess cash position but it’s a long term position not a tee up for a few months of boom. At 1.4, sales tax is taken again effectively 40% more (yeah it’s crude) The cash on reserve if it gets into the market at any speed will screw up a generation with boom and inevitably a bust of the first order. The US/Fed understands money, and as the CEO of Ares Capital has said, it’s 20 years ahead of Europe. The strength of US is 5% of world population, 25% of GDP and 70% of the world’s capital.

veteran_of_disorder

Everything about the situation infuriates me , besides the disposables issue, I use the pods too and I was able to quite a 30 year cigarette habit with vaping and the propaganda and related laws drives me completely insane . In any kind of a sane reality , vaping would be considered the biggest national health victory of the century for the United States , saving billions of $'s in health related costs . In Japan and the UK the government PROMOTES vaping (possibly because national health care has to actually pay for the cancer and emphysema ?)and all you see is "propaganda " touting the benefits . Because that's the reality . They've done this whole campaign about how bad it is for High School kids vaping without ever pointing out what it replaced - which was actual smokers sections at High Schools in many places and kids hooked for life on combustible products that actually killed them ! I hate the tobacco and menthol flavors.

NoOcelot

Westbridge Renewable Energy Corp. Developer of solar power /BESS projects. Today got their final transmission and connection approvals for their Dolcy project near Wainwright, AB. (Just days after the pipeline MOU between the feds and Alberta) Looks like a good play. Summary of most recent quarter: Q3 (ended Aug. 31, 2025) $1.5 M Net loss EPS: -$0.06 cash on hand: $30.1 M working capital: $29.9 M Westbridge has 21 renewable power / BESS projects in the pipeline in Canada, US, Italy and UK

Powerful-Load-4684

This is EU/UK and again is a tax classification of dividends. You are so dense lmfao

StuzaTheGreat

Oh...and TACO is any better? By the way, Europe and UK don't have to sell **all of it**, I'm sure they could fire a few warning shots or even do significant damage without going "nuclear".

Pristine_Hurry_4693

**DRTS’s clinical, regulatory, financial and commercial achievements and progress:** ‏FDA Breakthrough Device Designation ‏FDA TAP program inclusion ‏FDA MDSAP certification ‏FDA IDE’s for **five** cancers and counting ‏**FDA PHASE 3** completion for one indication in H1 2026 ‏FDA Phase 2 and other stages of trials going on in parallel for different indications (cancer types) ‏FDA approval for commercial factory in the US, with other factories built and more in planing ⁠100% tumor response rate in early FDA trials ‏Effective against all tumor types, including unmet needs like Pancreas, Lungs, Brain (GBM), Breast etc… ‏Activates immune system response ⁠**50+ clinical sites worldwide** (including USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Italy…) ‏Patents, IP and more…

stupidber

UK scrapping jury trials for all sentences under 3 years. Bers goin to jail for 2.9 years

lupinle1

Oh now it's pumping again. That dip was due to UK traders closing their positions to pay for heating.

MarketCrache

UK energy prices are sky high after they torched their contracts with Russia. Let's see how this works out for them.

ZXD319

>U.S. promised security to Ukraine if they gave up their nukes No, it didn't. Now go ahead and use your google-fu, and provide the text you think states that the US gave security guarantees so I can then read it back to you and break it down barney-style why that isn't the case, otherwise the UK would have to be providing boots on the ground right now. Europe is NEVER prepared. Now matter how many warnings they get, now matter how many times they're told to get their shit together, they do nothing until the last second, and only after the US has done all of the heavy lifting for them. We've been having the same goddamned conversation since the 80s, and nothing has changed, because they firmly believed they are owed American protection. Fuck off.

Adexavus

France, Germany, And the UK offered a counter deal to the 28 point plan, which was basically a Russian/Witkof arrangement. Neither deal was good because they were both not accepted, not even by the Russians ironically

Dramatic-Panda8012

bullshit numbers, we cant even access NHS in UK because there are too many people who use it and dont pay 🙃

pkko0x00

Germany france and UK are dying countrys rn because of their hang to socialism (including Medicare) Check GDP Growth

ManiacMessiahs

You are wrong, they’re all playing hot potato with the same 500bn and Nvidia is the ring leader because OpenAI has a valuation of like 2-3 trillion dollars it would need to achieve per year to justify its cost.. and frankly the entire situation was marked for death form the moment DeepSeek hit because the truth of all of this is that American big tech isn’t falling behind because of their tech, they’re falling behind because China doesn’t suspend their economy off selling our data and surveillance so they don’t need to control the algorithm to appease stock holders who’re now at odds with the public .. I’m personally booting Graphene to a pixel because all of these companies are fundamentally preventing innovation and Alphabet X Meta have had their time so I wouldn’t die on these hills because VK alone shits on Facebook and they’re coming for YouTube I assume to catch all the under 16s from digital ID in the UK here and there, then there’s the Vine revival to challenge TikTok which wants to have an overall AI content ban .. So I’m personally ignoring all of em considering the better question to me is will MIT finish their nuclear fusion artificial sun like China and achieve the second sole source that could probably power the entire country for nearly nothing and who has a contract to use it .. I know Microsoft will be first.

andytobbles

Bro the US is actually on the better end of debt to gdp simply because our gdp is so explosive. I believe the UK is like 218% or something, the difference is they don’t hold a ton of US debt relative to everybody else

gagagagaNope

Yep. Co-pay is the way. Embed personal responsibility. For UK socialists, it's the only area where they don't claim the EU is miles better than the UK. Much of europe has immeasurably better outcomes, often at much lower cost. For them the only two healthcare models are the NHS or an uninsured person in the USA.

Fitzcablammo

Did you know King of England owns almost the entire seabed out to 12 nautical miles off the UK coast? Including gas and oil rights... Clever pricks...

iamkingjamesIII

The UK/Canada model is pretty shit.  The Bismarck model used in other parts of Europe is a better model.  It's been a long time since I researched the particulars, so I might be incorrect but Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands follow that model and it goes well. 

MirthandMystery

And one thing never talked about is how the great Covid crash of 2020 happened months after the building crisis of 0% interest (payout) rates where banks didn't want your cash and certainly didn't want to pay you anything for holding it. It was a huge pressure building in EU and UK too where banks were losing money holding cash, unsustainable and a freakish situation. It's all they talked about in Dec and Jan into early Feb. The FED wouldn't raise rates and kept lowing them, creating a 'perfect storm' conditions. I still wonder if a small otherwise manageable covid crisis was somewhat manufactured and amplified into a large one given we were on the brink of major economic dislocations naturally. Something had to give, it was crazy the amount of cash and debt floating around. Mohammad El Arian called the black swan saying in late Feb 2020 any lasting global shut down due to lockdowns and employers losing workers, would result in supply chain mayhem, creating real problems and inflation due to scarcity and unreliability of shipped goods that our economy relied on, and other countries. The silence from the pros listening to him was deafening, and I got chills. He was dead right. There was no way to avoid what was coming. Stocks began selling off that week. That we were able to get back to higher interest rates was a near miracle. Such crazy system it requires it, which hurts regular consumers. Trump just wants us back to 0-1% again since it helps his own huge loan costs. He'll never use his own grift-gotten and fake crypto cash to pay down debt.

Ok-Pianist-5562

Thanks for this, its helpful to have your honest views on this and certainly food for thought. It's actually REALLY interesting. So I'm actually from Jersey 🇯🇪 You mentioned it is BVI company HQ in Jersey. Weshop was purchased by a HNW in Jersey from the UK hence mind and management here. It's a BVI company, but many private wealth vehicles (which this was) were historically setup in BVI which is quite common, so not as fishy as it might seem. So not a SPAC, but yes a Special Purpose Vehicle. The financials definitely don't make for good reading and blow ratios like P/E out of the water, but have to be read in the context that this basically a capital hungry VC start up over the past few years whilst trying to IPO. Heavy on marketing (athletes / influencers etc) in the early years for brand awareness and acceptance. I've been watching it for a few years (as I said above I've been USING the app). So I think its unfair to call it an insiders dumping scheme, but I can see why you might say that. The 12 month share maturity time-frame is to stop users making purchases, getting shares, then returning goods / receiving refunds. Which might better explain that aspect. Thanks for looking into it. One thing I dont understand, is who's buying into it? At that price... Surely its the anticipated growth that is priced in there? They are looking to launch in the US, so perhaps that's the thinking?

makesbadlattes

For any pennystock look at the 5m chart for entrypoints. KALA looked oversold at like 12:40-13:00 UK time so I bought in, sold as it was going up abnormally fast. If you bought in right now and it suddenly dropped back to 1.1 you'd be down a lot so idk tread carefully.

TheReplyingDutchman

UK has shorter average wait times. Canada is the only OECD country with longer average wait times in healthcare than the US.

gagagagaNope

In purely medical costs, the UK number will be far from zero. Not all healthcare is 'free'. In addition, we have thousands who go bankrupt because the NHS is dire in many circumstances - terrible quality of service, poor outcomes, years-long waiting lists. Those waiting lists alone are worse than the US situation because most people are unable to access alternatives. Treatment delayed for 2 years is no different to no treatment during thaat period, and you often have zero idea of when it may arrive. The thing he doesn't realise, is when you make something 'free', the demand becomes infinite.

Aggravating_Lychee99

I’m not “hyping” up anything, you can check any of my posts all I’ve done is post links that lead to objective news. The WSJ articles from the past, Bloomberg, and these articles are literally from the Puerto Rican government’s website. I also sat down and literally just explained why the hell their short term debt ballooned to $6 billion in layman’s terms for you. I’ve also laid out the risk that the UK court proceedings could lead to equity dilutions… not sure what else you want from me. You can read all of this in the 10Q that NFE released pretty recently.

FearLeadsToAnger

> completely ignores the role that the US has played - for better or worse - in the world since WWII. A lot of what the US has done abroad since WWII hasn’t exactly been admirable (I was only going to mention 3 but then got carried away with all the middle-eastern stuff): Vietnam was about containing communism and showing commitment to Cold War allies. The price paid by Vietnam was mass civilian death, destroyed farmland, displacement and long term chemical contamination. Iran in 1953 was about keeping control of oil and blocking perceived Soviet influence. The side effect was removing an elected leader and propping up a dictatorship that eventually collapsed into a revolution that still shapes the region today. And we really have enjoyed fucking with the middle east in general, the US supported Mujahideen fighters against the Soviet occupation, funnelling money and weapons into groups that framed the conflict in religious terms. After the Soviets left and the country collapsed into civil war, the Taliban emerged from those same networks. The original motive was Cold War strategy, but the long term result was a highly conservative religious government. From that perspective, we setup september the 11th against ourselves. Libya too. During the late 60s and early 70s, the US and UK supported the monarchy because it kept oil stable and Western aligned. That government had almost no legitimacy at home and fell in 1969 in a coup led by Gaddafi, who positioned himself as an anti Western nationalist. He ran a weak government that left room for Islamist groups to gain influence simply because they had the networks and cohesion that the dismantled state no longer had and once again, US involvement turns a country into a conservative religious terror factory. Iraq was sold as disarming weapons of mass destruction and reshaping the Middle East. Reesult: state collapse, sectarian bloodshed, mass civilian casualties and the rise of groups like ISIS. Drone strike campaigns were about hitting terrorist targets without risking US soldiers. In practice they often killed civilians, stoked fear and resentment and *fed* extremist recruitment. Chile in 1973 was about stopping a socialist government from aligning with the USSR and keeping a market friendly system in place. The outcome was a military dictatorship that carried out torture, executions and extreme repression for years. US foreign policy fucing *sucks* historically, it's all focused on idiotic short term thinking and manipulation for financial gain, scaling that shit back can only be a good thing.

Left-Associate3911

No Bernie, you are wrong. In the UK an individual might not go bankrupt but the NHS is a key reason why the nation is. And the radical left won’t admit it nor will they allow a sensible dialogue around reforming the NHS.

ZoominBoomin

UK isn't happy

FeverTreeCloud

Means happy 😃 in UK 🇬🇧

Cautious-Lecture-858

How the hell does Venezuela “disrupts the region”? That country is nothing. This whole Guyana dispute is nothing. Venezuela doesn’t have the resources much les military to enforce anything. It’s a poor decrepit country with ZERO influence in the region. But it has the largest untapped oil reserves on earth. But I’m sure the main reason for every war started by a Republican admin in the last 40 years has nothing to do with that fact. Also the US didn’t get oil concessions from Kuwait?! The Kuwait Oil Company is owned by Chevron. Kuwait oil IS OWNED by the US (and UK’s BP). Jesus Christ. Shut the fuck up.

W_Malinowski

Look at what’s happened in the UK with 30 year GILT

Aggravating_Lychee99

So here's the problem, the reason why these guys were on the bring of bankruptcy as Phebre said is because all their debt became immediately due at once The reason why they had a sudden upsurge from almost no short term debt to $6 B in short term debt is because they broke a debt covenant and when that happens all the debt becomes immediately due at once since all the lenders want their money back immediately (maybe not as people, but the contracts you sign on when you take on the debt makes it so that all the lenders can immediately ask for all their money back) In reality all this debt is long term and was originally due 2029 onwards, when the broke the debt covenants it became due immediately by 2026, which put them on the verge of bankruptcy If they can negotiate out of this through the UK court proceedings then the company is on good footing again and then on top of that they have this use lifeline from this deal

JadeddMillennial

The US sanctioned themselves like the UK did with brexit. Ignorant rurals have too much political power.

Zeppu

The UK does not withhold tax on dividends, but you obviously have to declare those earnings in your country of fiscal residence.

godmademelikethis

Peace talks on the table. With sanctions lifting being discussed (disgusting). I want war, and not just because my UK/EU defence pie was doing so well.

glisteningoxygen

Common in the UK; the Overmind gives you a house and car if you're poor and sad.

qaswexort

Used to be really popular in Australia. Never saw what's so special. Most places have closed since. Heard is still going strong in the UK though

Tammer_Stern

The coincidence is the American drug companies are threatening to pull out of the UK unless the NHS pays more. I don’t know if there’s more to it but you can google that if you like.

Aggravating_Lychee99

Yeah, this and we have to wait and see how the upcoming catalysts, UK debt restructuring court proceedings and the Brazil Energy Auction Markets in Q1 of 2026, play out I think the even bigger risk rn is the sort of dilution that will be announced for equity shareholders after the UK court proceedings But on Monday and throughout the upcoming week we'll definitely see a spike, the question is will they kill of the pump, and if so, will it be through shareholder dilution?

ProGrieferHere

Okay. Doubling your 10k is a dream. I would also stay away from the Stock Market and the popular assets like Real Estate. Personally, if I was in your position, I would take a serious look at what your full 30K can do if you were to use it to purchase a Belong Limited 7.5% Bond. It's a UK bond due to pay out in 2030. You can Google it. I would definitely ask your financial advisor about this bond, but it looks like this would be your best growth opportunity in the timeframe you are looking for. Again .. ask you financial advisor about this bond. I'm not a financial advisor I'm just letting you know that this bond exists. :) This is not financial advice...

Diddly_eyed_Dipshite

Thanks, firstly not the UK, I'm EU and using T212. I'd rather not open up another platform account and prefer to keep everything together, but will keep looking for an ETF that suits to consolidate and reduce individual holdings. Appreciate the response, some suggestions I'm getting make it seem like I'm totally fucking myself over and it'll be the ruin of me financially. I'm not expecting to beat the market long term by holding these stocks, but I'm the short term, yeah I would think that by next year at least half of those tech names I will be able to trim profits and add that cash straight into the ETF. I'm not greedy or expecting 10 baggers but in the short term (1,2,3 yrs) AI, semiconductors, data centre infrastructure will return greater gains than the market rate and I want to capture some of that.

DoinIt4DaShorteez

You could probably do some consolidation amongst your 20 short-medium term low conviction Tech & Other stocks just for convenience, but I don't see anything wrong per se with having that many, or your overall plan in general. If you can't buy any US ETFs like QQQ I would probably use a different platfrom, but I don't know anything about UK platforms or rules.

wickedbeats

CCCX is merging with Infleqtion, NVDA partnered quantum compute + sensing leader. Selling Quantum RF sensors, inertia/gravity sensors, and atomic timers to the US DoD, NASA, Japan, UK, etc. Infleqtion’s revenue is second only to IONQ, at 1/5 the valuation. They also sell quantum computers, and set the commercial record for physical qubits at 1600. The world record being 6400 set by Cal Tech using Infleqtion’s neutral atom glass core. Same seed investors as Palantir and Anduril, while playing a big role in national security. We need to stay competitive with china on quantum sensing——Palantir of quantum anyone?? Same guy that did OKLO merger, and that stock 15x’d with zero revenue. As a founding partner of NVDA NVQLink, Jenson Huang has said himself that Infleqtion’s QPUs will layer on top of the GPU CPU AI datacenter architecture. Sundar Pichai has just said that quantum is accelerating on the same level as AI 5 years ago. When the merger finalizes the CCCX ticker will change to INFQ, and I think this stock will be $100+ easy. It could even surpass IONQ when people realize trapped ions may not scale as well as IONQ’s CEO promises. Neutral Atoms are extremely promising and will dominate quantum sensing, and potentially quantum computing as well. CCCX to $100+

96JY

I live in the UK and use T212, it's great! Would recommend.

Wonderful_Plenty32

According to recent news, New Fortress Energy (NFE) received tentative approval for a $3.2 billion deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Puerto Rico. The deal is subject to conditions, including revising the tolling term sheet and developing "competitive open port access" to facilities. This news comes amid ongoing financial difficulties for the company, which is exploring debt restructuring options in the UK as an alternative to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US. 

6541191

You might want to look at EURO STOXX indices ETFs which track companies from Eurozone countries specifically. SPDR EURO STOXX 50 ETF (FEZ) or iShares Core MSCI Eurozone ETF (HEZU) both focus on EU countries and exclude the UK. The Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (VGK) is popular but does include UK stocks (about 20%), so it's not purely EU. The iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF (EZU) is probably the closest to what you're seeking - it's focused specifically on EU member states that use the Euro.

Aidenried

Given you're maxing out your ISA, yes, most UK investors with additional funds typically use a General Investment Account (GIA) and accept the tax implications. Remember you still get a £12,300 Capital Gains Tax allowance annually, so you can realize gains up to this amount tax-free each year. Consider tax-efficient harvesting - selling investments strategically to utilize your CGT allowance. For higher earners, SIPPs are worth exploring for the tax relief, though money is locked until 55. r/UKPersonalFinance or r/FIREUK might give you more UK-specific advice as most folks here are US-based.

Health_Code_T

i'd like to think something to do with Russia Apparently they were spying on UK pipelines the other day No way they make peace

Garlic_God

UK has already stopped

girvinator

Yeah after filling the ISA people are probably putting money in a SIPP or a GIA. There is a FIREUK subreddit and I’d also recommend the UK Personal Finance too for more info.

te7037

The CEO says he will diversify their products besides doing EVs from now. That's why the share jumped by 10% today. I read the company's anual report in December 2024 and was going to invest but I decided against it because it only has a few clients that make up for its revenues. Jaguar is one of them. Jaguar recently had to be rescued by the UK government. I think I will start buying the dip.

wickedbeats

Here’s some DD for you regard bitches: CCCX is merging with Infleqtion. Quantum sensing + compute leader. Quantum RF receivers, quantum inertia gravity sensors, quantum atomic timing, and quantum computers with 1600 physical qubits, a commercial record. Cal tech achieved the world record 6400 physical qubits using Infleqtion’s glass cores. Neutral atoms is the most scalable modality of quantum computing, and is a serious contender in the quantum race. Second most revenue in quantum behind only IONQ. They sell quantum hardware and sensors to the US DoD, NASA, Japan, UK, and more. Partnered with NVDA as a founding partner of NVDA NVQLink. As Jenson Huang revealed at NVDA GTC, Infleqtion QPUs will be layered on top of the GPU-CPU AI datacenter stack to solve the most complex problems that exist. Backed by same seed investor as Palantir and Anduril. Same person that did the spac merger for OKLO. When the merger is complete, the CCCX ticker will change to INFQ. Once that happens INFQ will be on par with IONQ IMO. Right now it is valued less than half of Rigetti (lmao). It is undervalued currently due to the pre merger status.

Ok-Macaron9014

Its a penny stock in the UK, its £0.29

pink_ego_box

I live in Colombia and in museums there are still vapor engines from the 19th century stamped with the name of the manufacturer in London. They sent these gigantic metal machines halfway across the globe because the UK won the industrial revolution race. The US won't let China win, that'd mean economic hegemony for the rest of the century

kaapooj

trump discussion remigration, already in the public discourse by the right in Germany, UK, Netherlands

maroonmagic2

If people think bad in the UK they get the death penalty

Hodgey91

Don’t usually buy UK stocks but Rolls-Royce is a player. Let em cook 🧑‍🍳

pink_ego_box

You mean the Pakistani colony formerly known as the UK?

SilverPrivateer

Cousin marriages actually help create bonds, I saw a study from the UK health department

VoteDoughnuts

I am in the UK so you have a different set of choices to me.

Clean-Skill-1431

Hello, Im looking for some opinions on my 6 years UK Junior SIPP and Junior ISA. They both have about 9k in them. As parents we have no debt apart from a mortgage at 2.2% for 4 more years. With the time frames involved i have a fairly high tolerence for risk. I see the JISA as being for a bit of fun stuff and then a house deposit probably not tuition fees unless the terms become much worse. Plus my own Lifetime ISA should have about £120k in by that point if needed. I'd welcome views on whether what i am doing seems sensible overall - and then thoughts on the actual funds spread which started a bit random but i have been trying to stream line. Going forward I plan to put at least 1200/ year (all the child benefit) into the JISA \- maybe another 500-1000 added in a good year. \- currently into a pretty high risk JPMORGAN Fund just changed from Nutmeg I- considering whether to move it to self investment platform but would welcome thoughts about funds - I have 9000 in the J SIPP through Fidelity - slightly random share allocation, i got a bit carried away like in a pick and mix shop, though i have tried to streamline it and consider market sperad. I am also aware that i am a bit concentrated on USA through Legal and general Global tracker and VUAG - should i pick one with all the worries about the AI bubble. I am planning to try and reach the 2880 limit each year in this account so he doesn't end up getting access to a big chunk of money as a student if i put everything into the JISA i know he could technically cash in his pension before time but it feels more locked away than the JISA. [**Fidelity Funds - Asian Smaller Companies Fund Y-ACC-GBP**](https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets//LU0702160192/?id=LU0702160192GBP&idType=isin&marketCode=)[**Fidelity Funds - Asian Smaller Companies Fund Y-ACC-GBP**](https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets//LU0702160192/?id=LU0702160192GBP&idType=isin&marketCode=) **£1141** [**Fidelity Global Dividend Fund W-Accumulation (UK)**](https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets//GB00B7GJPN73/?id=GB00B7GJPN73GBP&idType=isin&marketCode=) **£1074** [**Legal & General Global Equity Index I Acc**](https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets//GB00B83LW328/?id=GB00B83LW328GBP&idType=isin&marketCode=) **£3902** [**Pyrford Global Total Return Sterling Fund B Shares Acc**](https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets//IE00BZ0CQG87/?id=IE00BZ0CQG87GBP&idType=isin&marketCode=) **£441** [**VANGUARD FUNDS PLC,S&P 500 UCITS ETF USD ACC(VUAG)**](https://www.fidelity.co.uk/factsheets//IE00BFMXXD54/?id=IE00BFMXXD54XLONGBP&idType=isin&marketCode=) **£ 2369** **I was thinking to mainly invest in the legal and general global index going forward? is this sensible?**

Smaxter84

I'm all in UK trusts and I'm up 1.75% today.... But I did take an absolute hammering last week... .thanks to Rachel from accounts

West_Appeal1550

well how did you accumulate 330k usd in the first place? just do whatever you did to earn it and obv over time you'll get better at it and make even more. At least for me in Canada i feel like stocks are the best and 90% in index funds is good, but real estate could also be worthwhile if the UK market isn't insane, specifically buying properties to lease. College isn't an investment and the rest of the ideas you mentioned are tiktok ahh side hustles, not ways to generate real wealth

theproductdesigner

From the UK here. I ended up not enjoying robin hood at all when it got here. But ended up loving webull. It's got a great desktop and mobile app and a lot of features!

Nietzscher

If you want to stay strictly in the EU something like the iShares Core EURO STOXX 50 UCITS ETF (IE00B53L3W79) is probably your best bet. Personally, I also like the STOXX Europe 600 (LU0328475792) because you get 200 Large-, 200 Mid-, and 200 Smallcaps in one basket. However, there you'll have a sizeable chunk of UK and Swiss companies in the mix as well. So, if you want to stay strictly EU it is either the STOXX 50 or you're willing to look into newer and significantly smaller ETFs like WisdomTree Eurozone Quality Dividend Growth UCITS ETF (IE00BZ56TQ67). The crux with the STOXX 50 is, it isn't a index for the largest companies of the European Union, but the largest companies of the Eurozone. Also, because it only tracks the biggest 50 companies there usually are only companies from 7-10 different countries represented at any given time (France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain + some Nordic and Belgian stocks that shuffle in and out of the index depending on market cap).

IndubitablyNerdy

Europeans citizens and institutions also invest a lot in USA financial markets, If i remember well I checked some papers about market capitalization a few months ago and the estimate was that that European investors hold an equivalent of roughly 60% of the capitalization of all EU+UK exchanges combined in USA stocks. This, combined with the fact that the USA is the EU largest trade partner by far (and that we also have a ton of usa trasuries in our financial institutions balace sheets) mean that our markets are very much affected by what happens in Wall Street even without considering the political influence that Washington has on the West.