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Here's Why: Where we take one news story and explain it in just a few minutes with help from our exp

Episodes

Total: 64

Government borrowing jumped during the pandemic, but big stimulus plans like the Inflation Reduction

 Investors in Chinese shares are used to seeing wild swings in prices. The market rally on September

CPI, PCE, GDP, PMIs and JOLTS are all data points closely monitored by markets. They help us underst

The village of Schengen in Luxembourg lends its name to one of Europe's most ambitious agreements -

 The world runs on dollars. It's the most commonly used currency in international transactions, an i

Like the weather, the markets have seasonal trends. January is usually good; September is bad. So ho

Two and a half years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Europe's energy woes still

Central bankers are like celebrities in the finance world: every word they say gets closely scrutini

 It's a trading strategy that was at the heart of the market turmoil in early August: investors have

 Since the Hamas attack on Israel on the October 7 and the ensuing war in Gaza, tensions in the Midd

A plan by conservatives to reshape the US government, known as Project 2025, has become a key talkin

Notoriously volatile, cryptocurrency has long been seen as a niche investment on the verge of going

China's economy has been having a tough time. The latest growth figures show the slowest pace of exp

The June 27th debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has become a watershed moment in the US Pres

The European Union this week moved ahead with plans to impose provisional tariffs on electric vehicl

Nvidia's growth has stunned the market - even when compared to its artificial intelligence peers - r

 Donald Trump picked Jerome Powell to lead the Federal Reserve, but their relationship soured soon a

French bonds have continued to tumble as Marine Le Pen’s far right National Rally party leads polls

Three sets of recent elections have made waves on the markets. In South Africa, India and Mexico - w

The European Central Bank is set to cut interest rates for the first time since 2016, but Federal Re