UK

Due-Variety1611

Morning from the UK folks, reckon FATN will run again today? wanting established opinions.

BabbatheGUTT

SMH or SMGB (UK) Hold them all, ooh and some FLRK for the sweet SK Hynix, Samsung.

fleggn

And Japan and Korea and the UK and Finland and UAEand Denmark and Germany and Netherlands and

JohnAnchovy

I wouldnt put my money in any one country. I have an etf that includes the euro, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea. Basically all the non-authoritarian developed countries in the world. It’s up as much as the S&P without the downside risk of a fucking lunatic dementia patient in charge

Consistent-Duck8062

> Yeah I guess he became one of the most powerful people in the world as the head of DOGE through helping Trump get elected by accident. 'One of the most powerful people in the world' was quickly ousted from DOGE and any gov position, for that matter - within weeks, if memory serves right - by actual powerful people. I guess he didn't bring his billionaire diploma to show them he's also powerful? > Already done. Does that mean I shouldn't advocate for the same online then and just call it a day whilst he goes on jumbotrons in London and tries to get far right thugs to overthrow our elected government? I'd be inclined to believe you, if a quick review of your comments didn't appear to be very musk/trump focused. You seem to be from the UK. Some of us remember that civil war farce of Labour Jeremy Corbyn chairmanship, you know? How are you not focusing on people behind it, and would rather pester an autistic billionaire online, is beyond me.

Andrew_Higginbottom

Hmm... take a look at Keir Starmer in the UK.

Andrew_Higginbottom

With regards to BRICS, India for a few years has been showing wobbly legs towards a BRICS alliance ..and the recent signing up with the UK, I question India's future willingness to side with BRCS

rbcsky5

Open AI doesn't have it's own infrastructure (at least in the UK). It has almost no control over chips it can use. (in the UK)

Veshino99

Yes it’s +/- 5-10% days every day. Honestly idk why it’s tanking so hard. I think it could be a good sign. Shed off the weak hands. Also might be a healthy pull back for hood to run higher this year. Not only are they generating more revenue from their prediction markets. They also rolled out their UK and European side which will access an entire new market. Data has already come out that they are + yoy on top of the new users. This seems super greedy to be shoving hood down this far imo. Multiple analysts are rating it a 135$ minimum

Echo-Possible

Disagree. US tech is superior to all of the above. India is smart to align with the US as a strategic counter to China who is cozying up closer with Russia. And what “tech” do the UK and Canada have? Lol they just buy US tech. All their current and future top tier military equipment is US equipment.

Pathseg

The problem Trump has made it open is that the US isn't trustworthy. What US is doing to its close allies, is an eye opener for everyone. India isn't naive to now even consider investing in US weapons more than it has to for show. US administration can basically override US corporation just like China, Russia and throw all agreements out of the window. India will stop and reduce reliance on US Tech and with EU trade deal will allow for more closer integration to France, UK, Canada and likes.

Veshino99

Not sure but whoever is causing this much of a crash it’s def for a reason. Hopefully to access some buy side liquidity, maybe end of week we hit 100-105$ before earnings. Not sure why people panicking about their revenue. Prediction markets, options and crypto fees. Sign up bonuses, EU and UK roll out. Idk but hood def not going anywhere. If anything it’s a good sign they are in the prediction market hub. Was hoping it would steer them away from EXACTLY mirroring BTC.

JimHadar

You have to remember that Visa and Mastercard are behind the whole NFC contactless payment system. Every time someone uses contactless (yes, even if it's Apple Pay or Google Pay, or AMEX), they're using Visa or Mastercard's NFC payment system. Their gateway, their processing system. And it's even more than that. Mastercard bought the 'Link' system in the UK which required all ATMs to output cash to for all UK bank customers no matter if you're a customer of that particular bank. They bought it, and they shrank the ATM network massively around the UK, to trigger what would look like a 'natural evolution' to contactless. Visa and Mastercard are properly **embedded** in the global financial system. I can't see them going anywhere soon.

sandygws

>The FTSE 100 rallied to a new record high despite a sharp sell-off in gold and oil as it benefitted from investors seeking out safe havens for their money. >The UK’s flagship stock index was up as much as 0.7pc to nearly 10,300, along with other European rivals, despite a rout in global markets. Don't fuck it up today Ameripoors...

pbeenjoyer555

Wtf is the UK and Japan doing in a critical mineral alliance? what do they produce? they should be having countries like Chile/Peru in it not the UK and Japan lmao

Timbo1994

A bit. For example I have a higher weighting to government bonds vs equities in the UK than I would otherwise because (outside my ISA and pension) - I can get bonds with virtually tax-free growth - equities get a haircut of at least 24% (capital gains tax) on the nominal growth

TofuMeltatSunspot

I love New Balance Made in USA and UK. They are the only shoes I'll buy.

Iunatic

Denmark, France, UK, and Germany governments are all using PLTR lol

mneymaker

UK, UAE, Japan and maybe Australia would like to have a word

Late-Tadpole-2318

Something fucky is going on with the UK market

Juddy-

The US has silicon chips the UK has silicon chavs

AnonymousTimewaster

I'm not saying the US will be fine. Like I said, anti-American sentiment is very real and I know Canada and France are serious about making moved to reduce dependency. However, there's a reason this current world order is the way it is. It's been mutually beneficial. Reducing dependence is going to cost a lot, but it' a cost that's clearly worth bearing given the amount of damage Trump could inflict on us. The problem is, that to do real damage against the US, the UK and EU as a whole really need to work in tandem, and that's just not happening right now. Rest of the world has varying levels of dependency. Difficult to say how hard they're hit in a potential US recession, but obviously BRICs etc have been trying to create alternative/parallel systems for a while now.

AllanSundry2020

i don't have any American shares I'm afraid, i just use cash savings in UK. that said, I think they are no 1 sports brand them Adidas, the tariff market perhaps not helping them, and a recession wouldn't either but in my view sports and fitness is only increasing worldwide ever since COVID. Not investment advice though .. just the broad point of what will do well in a radical different env. interests me as a topic in itself. In terms of sports i guess the influencer economy is important so i would look at Nike profile there too get s feel for it, whether forced or happily trending. The Asian market is a big deal for these brands generally so maybe the China markets are not going well as their consumer spending is not doing so great . Again the tariff stuff casts a long shadow globally.

wildcat1055

A London-born, UK-raised movie director has cast a Nigerian-Mexican actress as a Greek mythological figure. How can Obama keep doing this to us?

AnonymousTimewaster

It's not a lie, it's very real. The Great Depression and 2008 didn't just happen in vacuums. The US is still by far the biggest consumer market on the planet and even though anti-American sentiment is real and rapidly growing, it doesn't stop the fact that almost every country is reliant on America in one way or another. Just think about all the IT infrastructure. In the UK, and obscene amount of our government literally depends on American tech and it can't be swapped out overnight. The very idea of not relying on America is unthinkable to the crotchety special advisers running the government.

UnluckyReaction1576

pretty sure the top 3 biggest debt holder are Japan (1tril+), UK(800bil+), then China (600bil). Not sure where did you get Canda from

Kuroi-

I mean the UK market closes pretty early, the PM market was open for at least another 6 hours after what his chart shows, he’s pretty fucked.

Joeskidoodles

Ha! No, I'm in the UK 🇬🇧

Exact_Sky_2138

Im going to be opening a new trading 212 account later today to start investing - I don't have much experience other than some advice that friends have given me What is the most solid long term investment pie that people think? Also Im assuming US stocks are better than UK stocks for equity appreciation given the UK has been stagnant for quite a while econmically now? any other bits of advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

TJMBeav

Like the UK? Or do you mean France? Germany then?

Wind_Yer_Neck_In

I'm in the UK and you see them everywhere now. They threw up dealerships in every major city within a year. And it's not surprising, their cheapest EV is less than £20k brand new. That's normal small car money for an EV.

Say_no_to_doritos

So what about investment firms in UK or EU? China? Iran? Canada? Norway? Think they view the risk free rate as T-billa? Absolutely not. No bank would view that as risk free either for exact situations such as this. 

Open-Yak-3708

It never ceazes to amaze me how UK has 5x but US has only 3x and these are us based tech companies..it's baffling

HawaiiStockguy

Rome fell, Greece fell, the UK is no world leader anymore. The US is on decline. It has become hostile to its allies, is disrupting the world order, is destroying its education system and it legal system, courts, public health, science research and its environment while ballooning its debt. The party is ending. Many guests have already left

Open-Yak-3708

So what is your plan. R u a invertor now in these ? Never knew UK has all these 3X ETFs from wisdom tree. Trillions of derivatives out there waiting to go up in smokes. I was long 30 slv shares down 1k but started hedging in the am with Zsl and short slv in acct 2. Dodged a fucking bullet

iBoMbY

So, and what percentage of the population in UK actually has access to cable internet faster than Starlink?

PandoraBot

Gaben got sued by some retard from the UK recently

DreamfulTrader

UK is only TastyTrade and IKBR, only 2 choices you have. You have Alpaca but they only provide API and no user interface. UK does not want you to make money on markets but they offer you gambling like CFD, spread betting alternatives At 18 with no savings or income from job, they will not let you open accounts. They are regulated to not allow people to risk money they don't have. All regulated brokers do so. Many young people open futures accounts and lie on the application to get through. A young guy killed himself recently thinking he owes the broker thousands of money when his options closed against him. Just google it. This is the risk all is clear when you sign up.

Gregsooooo

Can you trade options with Goldman Sachs? I’ve tried 4 different UK brokers so far and none have allowed US options trading

Yourmasyourdaya

Terrible app for anything time sensitive, but a lot of the UK competition isn't much better 

panth3r_

Does anyone where to buy in the UK, only T212 and it doesnt have it.

username111888777

Canada and UK are talking with China to make euro or yuan the reserve currency?

ihavearoomba

If you're ever in the UK, never let the authorities know you stole gold in runescape. Thank me later.

PushAble2463

Between like 780-850 Norwegians pillaged whatever they wanted from the UK. In 849 they fucking sieged Paris. Today we rely on oil..and eat fish and potatoes

ThinkingOfTheOldDays

In 1997 the UK economy was larger than India and China's combined.  Pretty crazy

chuk_norris

The fed chair doesn't ultimately control interest rates. Neither does the president. It's the treasurer market that dictates interest rates ultimately. Something like what happened to UK gilts in 2022 is bound to happen- where the government/ BoE were forced to act.

IntrepidSoda

Aye - 3LSI (in UK)

RIP-RiF

Bro that's less than 1,000 hours of minimum wage for the UK. Get back on the horse or do something else, but this is the fucking JC Penny Catalogue of loss porn.

Amazing-Jury-6886

I got lucky, I sold my gold etf yesterday morning in the UK before US market opened.

Tammer_Stern

I live in the UK so the prince Andrew news is getting some media attention. How is the Trump news going down in the US? Crickets?

UntowardHatter

"Canada, the UK, the EU, China, and Japan all started to slowly sell Treasury Bonds. They did not bluff. They simply made a silent pact to remind Trump that the world doesn't just roll over and will hit back right where it hurts. The US Treasury Bond market is the backbone of the global economy." This has not happened before. This is not good.

Reasonable-Hedgehog6

UK has a great entry point

CrustyBappen

I went to watch a premier league game in the UK and overheard staff at the bar talking about their gold investments. It was clear this time was coming.

SplitTrick3118

You are absolutely right to flag the **Selection Bias**. We are studying the 'Empire that Won.' If you ran this same analysis on the Russian stock market in 1917 or the German market in the 1940s, the 'Stocks always win' thesis goes to zero. Even Japan post-1990 challenges the 5-year timeframe (though the 20-year timeframe largely recovered). That said, while the *magnitude* of the US win (99%) is likely an outlier due to American Exceptionalism, the structural Equity Risk Premium tends to hold across most surviving developed markets (UK, Canada, Australia). To your point: This is the strongest argument for Global Diversification rather than pure US concentration. If the US mean-reverts, the hedge isn't necessarily 'Cash' (which suffers inflation risk), but The Rest of the World

ianvein

The precious metals market is controlled by a small group of ultra-rich people in the UK, so they're simply taking advantage of your FOMO

Timbo1994

I am young and in the UK but have put 10% in long-dated index-linked government bonds (equivalent of TIPS)

rbraalih

Mate, the thesis did not change in 2000 that the internet was the way forward, nor in the UK and US railway manias that trains were here to stay. The gold thesis has been the same since literally before the invention of agriculture, writing and the wheel. There's always the usual soothing background hum of retardation here, and there's posts like this one which stand out like a stallion's cock on a gerbil. But yeah high conviction trade, YOLO, leverage, let us know how it goes.

SangerGRBY

Scrolling through Elons twitter to see if there's any reason why TSLA is pumping and all I see is AI gifs and UK politics. The old Elon spams Tesla all day.

FBIseeyou

UK broker IG cancels margin increase for gold and silver after sending out email in 'error'

j_hes_

Golden Sachs is a great broker for UK clients!

Square-Paramedic-890

It's not a discussion point. They simply have contracts all over the world and increasing (UK, Germany, Poland soon, etc.) and increasing. US government was 50% in Q3 i believe and it will continue to drop percentage wise.

not_a_robot_1010101

I don't disagree with you. But you said a crash in the dollar = 90%. It really doesn't & your points there don't relate to that. I'm from the UK and I'm afraid, as far as I'm concerned, Trump has damaged the relationship for at least a generation. We need to move towards Europe & China in order to balance & remove reliance on a country we thought we had a strong tie to (& was mutually beneficial as it gave the US massive influence). Now it's just shown we're vulnerable. Same for Canada. Same for the EU. Trump has aligned with dictators & fucked the US in terms of allies... we wouldn't be there for the US he said? The ONLY time NATO has come together was for the US! He's a cheeky fucker with no grace, no diplomacy, & I can only assume fits clinical levels of psychopathy. However, the dollar is weakening to the point of a crash & it doesn't take 90%. And right now, it is the reserve currency, & that might change, but the US will go to war before it does. The reserve currency doesn't just swap to the EURO or Yuan & we move on. There would be world war to stop that, especially with this nutjob in charge. If the currency devalues too much, it's still the most powerful currency, your stocks, my stocks, pensions... all fucked for a long time 🤦‍♂️ ... and 90% isn't needed is my thesis. I do agree Trump is destroying you guys though... seems you're connected enough to know we all think you've fucking lost it!!

Mr-Crumpet

IG are doubling margin requirements for gold and silver today for UK customers at 3pm

Lonely_Leopard_8555

I just don't know how any of us non-Americans can trust you for at least a decade or more, and that's only if you have a stable government throughout. It's clear that roughly half of the population are either insane or idiotic so when/if Trump goes, there will be some other lunatic to take his place. Having said that it seems the UK could be sadly heading in this direction. Bad times.

eurovi1

I bought Wisdomtree Silver 3x Short 3 days ago. Sold today the moment markets opened in the UK. Saw the news on my feed and all the alarms rang same as gamestock moment, margin increase, government trading halt, restrictions, platform glitches. Sold right away. **49.458$ in profit.** Now I need to go take some blood pressure meds, that's **my paycheck for like 2.5 years**. I'm cashing out.

HawaiiStockguy

Reserve currency for now. We are provoking our allies ( or now former allies). Canada is currently in talks with China. So is the UK. The reserve currency may become the Euro or yuan. The US has been destroyed by Trump. Putin finally won the Cold War, long after we thought that it had ended

jamieperkins9999

Im in the UK and the UK is not bitcoin friendly at all. They restrict how much bitcoin you can buy and they tax you if you sell, I know that 2nd part is normal for stocks too, however one thing good about the UK is we can have a stocks and shares ISA which you can put up to 20k a year into and any gains are tax free, so I use this for my investments. And due to the UK being anti bitcoin, I cant buy things like IBIT/BITX. But, I can buy a publicly traded company that is well established and is listed on the nasdaq, even if that company is essentially for bitcoin exposure, don't think anyone is buying MSTR for their tech company. So essentially, its my best way being in the UK to get near enough direct bitcoin exposure.

No_Nose2819

That sounds like a UK government policy.

2ndPickle

Hey man, one person bought a ticket to her movie premiere in the UK, that’s more than you can say

TheRedditModsSuck

>Most are in this because the products are actually good. There are a lot of reasons – the products are good, the ecosystem does lock you in, the brand name is extremely strong etc. In particular, Chinese people (not Chinese diaspora) are nowhere near as wealthy as people in the US/EU/JP/AU/CA/UK, but it's still pretty popular there because it's seen as a status symbol. The good thing is that you can't fake it either – you can get a make LV handbag, but a fake iPhone just isn't the same.

spac420

they have regards in UK?!

Bazzer82

Down on MSFT but can't even buy the dip becuase when it goes up 20% the dollar will have gone down 30% against the GBP so I'll lose anyway (in the UK). If I was in the US I would buy that dip bigly. Such a stupid drop. Only a matter of time until it rises violently.

bruhhzilla

don't diss UK drill

Modja

There are Wendy's in the UK, check it out

Wise-Belt9180

1-They don’t have Wendy in the UK 2- if he is in his 50’s no one is gonna hit that, not even behind the kfc dumpster 3- I shouldn’t have made this into a list got nothing more 🤣🤣🤣

Prize_Cheetah895

11K pounds is over 15000 USD. And salaries over in UK are like 3 times smaller.

Prior_North_2456

I dont think frameworks of concepts.of deals work anymore since he will just turn around and reapply tariffs at the slightest disagreement and taco anytime spy dips 2%. I think he just walked back the Korea trade deal. UK, Canada, and EU are making more trade deals than the USA since he got in. Trade deal bumps are so 2025.

Confident_Yak_1411

It’s just under half of a years minimum wage salary in the UK (£26kish).

Timbo1994

UK focused article but a good one https://monevator.com/dont-currency-hedge-your-equity-portfolio/

CasuallyMisinformed

Theres Wendy's in the UK, just not tonnes

SangerGRBY

Why is Elon still tweeting HENTAI GROK VIDEOS and UK politics this guy needs to shut the fuck up. Cant stand it when billionaires think they know whats best for the common folk. Fuck this POS.

Discount_LionSafari

I mean, you live in the UK so

pirac

The problem with nationalizing strategic industries is nationalizing possible huge mistakes. Instead of private companies paying for those mistakes having the people paying for them. There are industries that are more clear cut in their geopolitical importance, like say energy sector, etc. But in car industry, you could be making a good call or you could be creating an expensive problem, like the UK did with British Leyland, like Brazil did with their computer industry in the 60's. Right now China has subsidized heavily their electric car industry, and in a completely free market world they would be flooding every market, but we dont live in that world. And currently they are producing much more than what the market calls for, thanks to a state thats supporting it. We dont know yet if that bet will pay off, or it will bite them in the ass or all the options in between. Id say overall the best bet is to create the best conditions for the market to generate those industries, if the market cant generate them, a state artificially generating those conditions has to be well justified. Id rather the state be subsidizing free healthcare or education before doing that though.

BritishAnimator

Ahh, Facebook. That explains it. I talk to people face to face and it's a different story. Facebook is rife with posts from people that want a reaction. It's an addictive echo chamber for those that need to feel something, anything, even if it's dumb. Not saying it's not true what you see. But it isn't a good representation of the UK.

Proud-Durian3908

You joke but we do have Wendy's in the UK! We don't have in-n-out tho :(

lowprofitmargin

Buying WEBULL shares using Trading 212 UK instead of WEBULL UK...

ksuvuelalfusuwnsl

NFE stock is about to increase substantially due to a rare UK restructuring NFE is a US based company doing a UK restructuring. That almost never happens. I tried to find another public US stock that did something similar. The closest one I found was Fossil Group $FOSL. Fossil did a UK restructuring in November 2025. After that the stock went from around $1.9 to about $4. There was no squeeze setup there. Short interest was only around 13 percent. Borrow fee was roughly 10 to 15 percent. Float was not tight. $NFE is very different. Short interest is around 30 to 40 percent depending on the source. Borrow fee is already close to 100 percent. Looking at the options chain most of the short position does not look hedged. There is not much call coverage. If price moves up they have to buy stock. Also the float is locked 90% by insiders and institutions. Most people who shorted $NFE did it with one assumption. Chapter 11. Equity wipeout. UK restructuring is not that. It is a different legal path. Different incentives. Different timeline. Equity does not automatically go to zero. Preferred equity will be issued but that does not immediately dilute the stock, meaning shorts are caught in a squeeze Because of that the original short thesis breaks. Shorts are now stuck holding a position that is expensive to maintain and hard to exit if volume comes in. Fossil doubled with weak short interest and low borrow. $NFE has much higher short interest and much higher borrow.

TonyPace

How on Earth do you think think this supports your position that nothing changed? The UK and US both rose to dominance on manufacturing power. Japan and Germany tried the same path but were both choked off on energy imports. Now China has a good path to energy independence through manufacturing. Before, they needed energy trade. Now, in a pinch, they don't. That's enormous.

No_Love_Gained

> CBD acquisitions This was for all CBD players (incl the likes of CWEB) and may change fairly quickly with new CBD legislations in the pipeline HITI needs to strat showcasing their US and UK cbd brands more cos that's going to be the next big cpg play. Glta

Readonly00

Yeah.. but can't make the same 'easy' money off UK stock swings. Not many exciting high volatility high volume stocks on the ftse

Readonly00

Isn't that just the 1pm (UK time) people coming online? I always see a spike then

timeforknowledge

And new coal power plants... The UK is having to pay a premium to import fossil fuel power so they can brag about how green they are

CarRamRob

Eh, the USA still produces the most oil, LNG, and has more aircraft carriers. They may be 1870’s England, but if their wars vs what knocked the UK down are not comparable.

AliceNullptr

Does UK uses Euro?

akainokitsunene

It’s the elites that are hoarding gold like dragons…. Also when hyperinflation hits assets like gold skyrocket. Each time the value of gold doubled again the world reserve currency historically it announced a change in the world order and a new world power rising. Look at Spain, Portugal, the UK, the Netherlands. Once they were world powers before fading to oblivion. It’s time for the US and BRICS are gonna be the dominating financial powers by mid century.

tinydisaster

Interesting you mention that, I think 2 out of the 10 railroads in Britain during the Industrial Revolution actually made money. The rest of the massive track expansion went unused for like 20 years. It was handy in the long run, but horribly not profitable for 80% of the business players that were laying track. I’m doing this off the top of my head so there may be errors. Maybe someone from UK has woken up by now.

purplebrown_updown

yeah. Similar I think what happened in the UK. THey cut taxes on the rich, the debt spiked, the pound crashed. Might see something like this, if it's not already happening. Gold prices sky rocketing is almost equivalent to USD crashing maybe.

geneel

But of a reddit ourobouros https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/s/k3TJS7S70a QE never stopped it just got a different name and mechanism. US Fed is always a buyer of last resort so rates never rise above the target. Then one day someone realizes they can actually short the dollar and drive inflation and maybe change the government too (eg UK)

Eyclonus

The volume of the force depends on the amount of consent needed to persuade the people to back a war. With respect to the UK and Trump its a lot lower than it was with the US public and Russia in 2023.

OG_Tater

Canada was in India today making rare earths deals. The prime minister of the UK made the first visit to China in 10+ years today. Nothing to see here, just diversifying a tad…