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FT markets ed. I don't post on this toxic thing any more. katie0martin on Bl*e Sk*. °°°join us°°°

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@katie0martin .bsky.social JFYI
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5 years
Did this guy in the background cycle into the water?
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I'm sorry, WHAT? Extraordinary comment here from North Yorkshire 'police boss' Philip Allott
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2 years
THE LETTUCE HAS HAIR NOW. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Soon it will assume its ultimate form.
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6 years
-And, the humans, they build their homes from these "bricks"? -Yes, prime minister, they do -Then I shall associate myself with the bricks
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The foreigners aren't, like, watching, are they? We don't look silly or anything?
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9 years
Still chuckling at this.
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5 years
Breakthrough: my mum says she *did* understand what I was talking about. Unprecedented.
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Channel 4 News
5 years
The Financial Times' @katie_martin_fx tells @krishgm : ‘There isn’t an economist alive or a trader alive who really thinks that sterling can get through this [no-deal Brexit] without getting really punched in the face’
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oh FINALLY
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Sky News
4 years
Coronavirus: Gwyneth Paltrow, Eva Longoria and Kate Hudson react to outbreak
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2 years
@TRyanGregory @joshspero so, heterosexual men are struggling to find 'dating opportunities' now women won't put up with their BS any more?
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3 years
I'd rather eat glass
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Forbes
3 years
Meet the 16 year old entrepreneur interested in cryptocurrency:
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2 years
crown and party lights for the TRIUMPHANT LETTUCE, Liz pic overturned
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4 years
Funny how mothers never "help" with nappies for their own kid
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
4 years
Sunday's Mail: “Billions to get Britain booming” #TomorrowsPapersToday #BBCPapers (via @hendopolis )
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5 years
would they like to sign a free trade agreement?
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5 years
Three new planets have been discovered outside our solar system
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8 years
I just don't get how this is physically possible.
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6 years
aaaaand the penny drops. Thank you for playing, everyone
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The Wall Street Journal
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Companies are providing more paternity leave, but many men worry that using it will hurt their careers
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Turkish lira slides as finance minister struggles to impress “one of the worst performances from a finance minister I have seen” via @FT
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7 years
Does anyone know of a shorter way to write "far-right supporter in shirt daubed with swastikas"?
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Standard News
7 years
Moment far-right supporter in shirt daubed with swastikas is punched
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6 years
On some level, I think we all live for an obit kicker like this.
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The desk to my left is empty. This is a sad time. My heart goes to the friends and family of the charming @PSMcClean
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8 years
Liam Fox: "Those in EU who put politics ahead of prosperity might want to think twice." (Reuters) We're done here. Irony is dead.
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7 years
Never gets old.
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4 years
read the room, guys
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4 years
It's #BatAppreciationDay ! We have 18 species in the UK, including the pipistrelle in this picture! Bats get a bad rap, but did you know they're actually really important?! #Thread 👇👇
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2 years
missed this sass from Games Workshop
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@UllaMeredith @aubreyhirsch "is that YOU?" "yes" "REALLY?" "yes, go away"
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3 years
on the pints at breakfast time. Whole country is like an airport departures lounge. You love to see it
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2 years
"oh suddenly everyone's a expert in X" Twitter is the worst Twitter
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4 years
alt headline: Four men insist they're not irresponsible for leaving woman struggling to bring up their children
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The Sun
4 years
Single mum who has ten kids with four different fathers insists she doesn’t have children to get benefits
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6 years
this is absolutely glorious
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2 years
UK civil servants have been ordered to trawl through the social media accounts of guest speakers at one government ministry, including going back up to five years to see if they have ever criticised government policy, as part of a new vetting process.
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6 years
Regret to inform that Theresa May dancing in South Africa is exactly as bad as you would expect
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DIRCO South Africa
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[WATCH]: Prime Minister #TheresaMay at ID Mkhize Senior Secondary in Gugulethu, Cape Town. @SABCNewsOnline @SAgovnews @KhayaJames @UbuntuRadioZA @PresidencyZA @DBE_SA
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6 years
Vomiting camel formation, Bitcoin. Bearish.
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3 years
Fresh blow for London as euro derivatives trading floods out It's almost as if there's a pattern emerging via @financialtimes
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6 years
I don't want to worry anyone here, but this is a clear Vomiting Camel Formation in the S+P. Bearish.
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2 years
Bitcoin is down 66% from this time. Now <$23k #eeks
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Pomp 🌪
3 years
If you’re a shareholder in a publicly traded business & they don’t have bitcoin on their balance sheet, it is time to start demanding it. They are complicit in the destruction of shareholder value as long as we have persistently high inflation.
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Woman fined £12,000 for holding party on day of Prince Philip funeral *files nails*
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1 year
glory to the ukrainian beavers
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Ukrainian soldiers near the Belarusian border say that the high number of beaver dams, which locals haven’t cleared because of the war, have helped flood the Volyn swamps- making the area much easier to defend
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2 years
Is this the top? Are we there yet?
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A former cabinet minister adds: “She has fucked the party, fucked the country and fucked our prospects at the next general election.” Putting the F in the FT Can anything save Liz Truss? - via @FT
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1 year
ECB not pulling its punches here. - Bitcoin is rarely used for legal transactions - Regulation can be misunderstood as approval - Promoting Bitcoin bears a reputational risk for banks
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European Central Bank
1 year
The apparent stabilisation of bitcoin’s value is likely to be an artificially induced last gasp before the crypto-asset embarks on a road to irrelevance. #TheECBblog looks at where bitcoin stands amid widespread volatility in the crypto markets. Read more
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If I tell Elon about the carbon emissions involved in bitcoin will he give me $100m?
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Reuters
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Elon Musk puts up $100 million for global carbon reduction competition
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flake news
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The Sun
6 years
Woman stunned to find GIANT 12cm bran flake in her Tesco cereal
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buy gold
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Keith Richards has given up drinking: “It was time to quit”
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Where is "The North"? As Lex points out, one way to figure it out is the Greggs : Pret ratio
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5 years
I'm just relieved that the Most Famous Person Who Has My Exact Hair Style is no longer George Osborne
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ITV News
5 years
From Peep Show to Hollywood: The rise of Olivia Colman
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6 years
Wise beyond his years. Inspiring.
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6 years
lucky, lucky Amazon tribe
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Standard News
6 years
Video footage shows an isolated Amazon tribe which has had no contact with the outside world
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PSA: We are at the 'Snow Ploughs On The Telly' stage of the Great British Snow Crisis. Stay tuned for live shots of grit depots and then finally of 'Zoo Animals Doing Things In Cold Weather'
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-And, the humans, do they enjoy this "Mexican wave"? -Yes, prime minister, they do -Then I shall perform the wave in the national interest
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I'll be very impressed if she gets around in under 4 hours
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Queen to start London Marathon (remotely from Windsor)
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BBC winning the umbrella wars with the logo on the inside (or back-to-front)
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@PeterNurse1 England players have taken a break from training to visit an orphanage outside Repino. "It's just heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope," said Dmitry, age 7
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8 years
The Duke of Westminster's key to success. Priceless.
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@DudespostingWs @mutablejoe This is so pure. Happy new year!
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I made it! I think I have left a very important part of my knees in Canary Wharf. 4h16, which I could not have done without: -The support of Mr Martin -London's incredible crowds and volunteers - @Orion_Harriers -the inspiration of people's generous donations to @TheBHF Xx
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5 years
i really find the constant baiting of this woman quite troubling
@SkyNews
Sky News
5 years
"There's a perfect storm with her that people don't like." The new edition of BritishVogue is out today - edited by the Duchess of Sussex. On #Sunrise , we discuss whether she was right to take the job.
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and they say the Germans have no sense of humour...
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Sky News Breaking
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German government spokeswoman says it will not comment on the outcome of the General Election out of respect and politeness
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5 years
Just RTing this for all the mansplainers who generously gave up their time after my clip on the telly to tell me I was wrong
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jeroen blokland
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Wow! The British Pound continues its 'no-deal' #Brexit slide, now at 1.2150, approaching post Brexit-referendum levels. #GBP
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7 years
Pretty sure I remember being told that leaving without a deal would be fine
@Reuters
Reuters
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Don't throw Brexit into chaos, UK minister warns before parliament vote
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@PickardJE Do you think she'll go for 'shitfest'?
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4 years
How will the Fed respond?
@choffstein
Corey Hoffstein 🏴‍☠️
4 years
In 4 billion years, the Milky Way is going to crash with Andromeda, so who even cares about anything anymore?
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The Everton FC fan shop in the Liverpool One shopping centre. Address: Everton Two, Liverpool One. Trolling level: Expert.
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"Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit."
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Me @Davos . ‘Stop talking about philanthropy, start talking about taxes.’
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"At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, billionaire Richard Branson balked at the idea of government intervention to stop companies going bust, proclaiming that weak airlines should be allowed to go to the wall"  Guess what happened next, readers..
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Katie Martin
4 years
'oh, it's just the May contract' is the new 'oh it's just the flu'
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Bloomberg Markets
4 years
Brent crude for June delivery is tumbling
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Katie Martin
5 years
As someone who once cycled into a canal, I just want to let that guy know that while he may feel bad now, he should know that people will mercilessly take the piss out of him for the rest of his life.
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6 years
I guess he wasn't wrong
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7 years
"staggering disaster" In *shocking* news, it turns out Brits don't want to work on farms.
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3 years
@ParikPatelCFA No other rudder can deny
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2 years
Good morning from Citi: "We see no near-term end to the UK’s fiscal woes. We recommend selling GBPUSD via a Put spread with strikes at 1.00/0.95 and expiry on 28 Dec 2022"
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Sharif don't like it
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6 years
If there's one thing more offensive than being spied on, it's *not* being spied on
@ftbreakingnews
FT Breaking News
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New Zealand cannot find any Russian spies to expel
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So the legal profession is not weird at all. via @FT
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6 years
Gotta love London.
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7 years
@PSMcClean Paul spent his last days in the office laughing at stupid stuff on the internet and trying to convince me he looked like Daniel Craig.
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Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid: "How could you have earned a 42% return yesterday from a AA-rated investment? Simple. At anytime between 8-11am all you had to do was buy 40yr Gilts before the BoE effectively restarted QE only days before QT was suppose to start" absolute scenes
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Katie Martin
2 years
Hygge if true
@davidmwessel
David Wessel
2 years
Danish banks are handing out blankets to help staff cope with lower office temperatures introduced as part of a push to cut energy usage via @business
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for those keeping score, I reckon the supporters v haters of my blouse split roughly 52:48. The people have spoken, the blouse fights another day
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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The Financial Times' @katie_martin_fx tells @krishgm : ‘There isn’t an economist alive or a trader alive who really thinks that sterling can get through this [no-deal Brexit] without getting really punched in the face’
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'well yes I think there's a very clear case for an immediate public inquiry into Mr Heseltine'
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No we don't.
@SaraEisen
Sara Eisen
8 years
"They call me Mr. Brexit over there" @realDonaldTrump on the UK
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3 years
The Reddit reviews are in of the FT's coverage of a wild week. **NSFW**
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7 years
No sign of the doorstop today. #livingontheedge
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4 years
well played
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Stu Royall
4 years
OH MY GOD 🔥🔥🔥
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buy stocks
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such a fresh, straight-talking politician. Never dodges a question. oh wait
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"Do you honestly believe that Britain is better off outside of the EU?"   That was the question Channel 4 News asked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn six times.
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2 years
Pray for the FT markets editors. Enough caffeine to kill a horse.
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4 years
Kindly admire my morning's work.
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6 years
All this fuss about Trump going to Davos when what we really want to know is whether Martin Wolf will be wearing his hat.
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8 years
Meanwhile, in the Thames.
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Katie Martin
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"This amounts to more than one woman a week coming forward in London to report that their husband or partner, a serving officer in the Met, has been seriously abusing them."
@standardnews
Standard News
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: Almost 150 Metropolitan Police officers have been accused of domestic violence against their spouses or partners in the last two years, an Evening Standard investigation has revealed 👇
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Never gets old
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3 years
truth.
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U.S. TREASURY'S YELLEN SAYS BITCOIN EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT FOR CONDUCTING TRANSACTIONS, IS A HIGHLY SPECULATIVE ASSET
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