Ray Douglas
@raydouglas.bsky.social
Journalist at @financialtimes.com Formerly @thetimes.com and The Sunday Times | Editor, writer and occasional coder | Markets and tech | Views my own
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December 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This amazing animation by @raydouglas.bsky.social shows just how many $tns in value US big tech companies gained this year - and how Nvidia doubled its market cap April-Oct to leapfrog to the top
More @financialtimes.com 2025 markets charts to go with your mince pies here as.ft.com/r/d8b0748f-6...
More @financialtimes.com 2025 markets charts to go with your mince pies here as.ft.com/r/d8b0748f-6...
December 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This amazing animation by @raydouglas.bsky.social shows just how many $tns in value US big tech companies gained this year - and how Nvidia doubled its market cap April-Oct to leapfrog to the top
More @financialtimes.com 2025 markets charts to go with your mince pies here as.ft.com/r/d8b0748f-6...
More @financialtimes.com 2025 markets charts to go with your mince pies here as.ft.com/r/d8b0748f-6...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
🇺🇸🇳🇬 Donald Trump says US struck Isis targets in Nigeria over attacks on Christians
FT www.ft.com/content/f095...
FT www.ft.com/content/f095...
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🇺🇸🇳🇬 Donald Trump says US struck Isis targets in Nigeria over attacks on Christians
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⚽ 🚀 I should be surprised by Fifa’s World Cup ticket pricing but I'm not...
FT www.ft.com/content/3c9c...
#Fifa #WorldCup2026 #football
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#Fifa #WorldCup2026 #football
December 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
⚽ 🚀 I should be surprised by Fifa’s World Cup ticket pricing but I'm not...
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#Fifa #WorldCup2026 #football
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#Fifa #WorldCup2026 #football
🇬🇧 I was not expecting that…
The Bank of England is on TikTok, with governor Andrew Bailey “answering your questions”
The Bank of England is on TikTok, with governor Andrew Bailey “answering your questions”
December 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
🇬🇧 I was not expecting that…
The Bank of England is on TikTok, with governor Andrew Bailey “answering your questions”
The Bank of England is on TikTok, with governor Andrew Bailey “answering your questions”
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Crucially, “Oracle will oversee the algorithm that recommends videos in users’ feeds” and that’s the secret sauce that has made the Chinese network so successful
www.ft.com/content/7a77...
www.ft.com/content/7a77...
TikTok signs deal to create US joint venture
Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX will be investors in new unit as part of deal arranged by Trump administration
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Crucially, “Oracle will oversee the algorithm that recommends videos in users’ feeds” and that’s the secret sauce that has made the Chinese network so successful
www.ft.com/content/7a77...
www.ft.com/content/7a77...
🇺🇸 Tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing to the US but there's little evidence of that yet...
FT www.ft.com/content/17a1...
FT www.ft.com/content/17a1...
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🇺🇸 Tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing to the US but there's little evidence of that yet...
FT www.ft.com/content/17a1...
FT www.ft.com/content/17a1...
🇰🇳 Can't fathom why billionaires get a bad rap... 🤔
"Destiny is part of a trend in which wealthy figures in technology and crypto try to establish their own, more libertarian, territories, known as the 'network state' movement," writes @joshspero.ft.com
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"Destiny is part of a trend in which wealthy figures in technology and crypto try to establish their own, more libertarian, territories, known as the 'network state' movement," writes @joshspero.ft.com
FT www.ft.com/content/cd17...
Bitcoin investor plans Caribbean community — with its own court system
Some locals on the island of Nevis oppose the libertarian project, calling it a ‘state within a state’
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🇰🇳 Can't fathom why billionaires get a bad rap... 🤔
"Destiny is part of a trend in which wealthy figures in technology and crypto try to establish their own, more libertarian, territories, known as the 'network state' movement," writes @joshspero.ft.com
FT www.ft.com/content/cd17...
"Destiny is part of a trend in which wealthy figures in technology and crypto try to establish their own, more libertarian, territories, known as the 'network state' movement," writes @joshspero.ft.com
FT www.ft.com/content/cd17...
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New🍿📉: Netflix originals are now rated lower than rivals on IMDb — although things have improved since 2022 (funnily enough, I think I cancelled my subscription that year).
Interactive version here if you want to see the individual titles: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
Interactive version here if you want to see the individual titles: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New🍿📉: Netflix originals are now rated lower than rivals on IMDb — although things have improved since 2022 (funnily enough, I think I cancelled my subscription that year).
Interactive version here if you want to see the individual titles: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
Interactive version here if you want to see the individual titles: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Rates traders position for a turn in the cycle, with hikes beginning to be priced for several big economies next year. US increasingly looks the outlier as.ft.com/r/c5f820a3-6...
Investors increase bets on ECB rate rise in threat to dollar
[FREE TO READ] Prospect of higher borrowing costs in Eurozone, Australia and Canada could leave Federal Reserve as an outlier in 2026
as.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Rates traders position for a turn in the cycle, with hikes beginning to be priced for several big economies next year. US increasingly looks the outlier as.ft.com/r/c5f820a3-6...
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US widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes—“US growth is largely dependent right now on AI and AI-related capex driving wealth,” said Rebecca Patterson, a senior fellow… www.ft.com/content/8beb... @senojerialc.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
US widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes
Diverging fortunes of rich and poor turn economy from an asset to a liability for US president
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
US widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes—“US growth is largely dependent right now on AI and AI-related capex driving wealth,” said Rebecca Patterson, a senior fellow… www.ft.com/content/8beb... @senojerialc.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Per the FT: “An Atlanta Federal Reserve analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that, after years of above-trend growth, pay for America’s lowest earners has slowed more sharply than for the highest.”
And this as the US labor market risks weakening further.
#economy #wages #inequality
And this as the US labor market risks weakening further.
#economy #wages #inequality
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Per the FT: “An Atlanta Federal Reserve analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that, after years of above-trend growth, pay for America’s lowest earners has slowed more sharply than for the highest.”
And this as the US labor market risks weakening further.
#economy #wages #inequality
And this as the US labor market risks weakening further.
#economy #wages #inequality
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America’s widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes on.ft.com/4rzRNDE
America’s widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes
Diverging fortunes of rich and poor have turned the economy from an asset to a liability for the US president
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December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
America’s widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes on.ft.com/4rzRNDE
🇺🇸 US private employers shed 32k jobs in November
November's slowdown was "led by a pullback among small businesses", said Dr Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP
Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120k jobs -- the largest one-month decline since May 2020
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November's slowdown was "led by a pullback among small businesses", said Dr Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP
Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120k jobs -- the largest one-month decline since May 2020
FT www.ft.com/content/7d41...
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🇺🇸 US private employers shed 32k jobs in November
November's slowdown was "led by a pullback among small businesses", said Dr Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP
Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120k jobs -- the largest one-month decline since May 2020
FT www.ft.com/content/7d41...
November's slowdown was "led by a pullback among small businesses", said Dr Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP
Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120k jobs -- the largest one-month decline since May 2020
FT www.ft.com/content/7d41...
🇺🇸 Republican Matt Van Epps wins Tennessee House race but by a reduced margin
Trump carried the seat by 22 percentage points a little over a year ago
NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump carried the seat by 22 percentage points a little over a year ago
NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
🇺🇸 Republican Matt Van Epps wins Tennessee House race but by a reduced margin
Trump carried the seat by 22 percentage points a little over a year ago
NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump carried the seat by 22 percentage points a little over a year ago
NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
🇬🇧 Pro-Brexit newspaper makes (partial) U-turn?
Warner's words aren't quite the climbdown the headline suggests, with lines like "... its economic opportunities have so far been squandered". Still, the column marks a rare admission of #Brexit’s failures
Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Warner's words aren't quite the climbdown the headline suggests, with lines like "... its economic opportunities have so far been squandered". Still, the column marks a rare admission of #Brexit’s failures
Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🇬🇧 Pro-Brexit newspaper makes (partial) U-turn?
Warner's words aren't quite the climbdown the headline suggests, with lines like "... its economic opportunities have so far been squandered". Still, the column marks a rare admission of #Brexit’s failures
Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Warner's words aren't quite the climbdown the headline suggests, with lines like "... its economic opportunities have so far been squandered". Still, the column marks a rare admission of #Brexit’s failures
Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
🇬🇧 Reeves avoids a Truss moment
UK gilts rallied after today’s Budget. The 30-year yield dropped 11bps, its biggest daily fall since April, after the Debt Management Office said it would issue less long-dated debt
FT www.ft.com/content/d0a5...
#Budget2025 #Gilts #UKEconomy #RachelReeves
UK gilts rallied after today’s Budget. The 30-year yield dropped 11bps, its biggest daily fall since April, after the Debt Management Office said it would issue less long-dated debt
FT www.ft.com/content/d0a5...
#Budget2025 #Gilts #UKEconomy #RachelReeves
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🇬🇧 Reeves avoids a Truss moment
UK gilts rallied after today’s Budget. The 30-year yield dropped 11bps, its biggest daily fall since April, after the Debt Management Office said it would issue less long-dated debt
FT www.ft.com/content/d0a5...
#Budget2025 #Gilts #UKEconomy #RachelReeves
UK gilts rallied after today’s Budget. The 30-year yield dropped 11bps, its biggest daily fall since April, after the Debt Management Office said it would issue less long-dated debt
FT www.ft.com/content/d0a5...
#Budget2025 #Gilts #UKEconomy #RachelReeves
🇬🇧 One of the best comments beneath Ganesh's column "The Labour government will deteriorate from here"
FT www.ft.com/content/68ee...
FT www.ft.com/content/68ee...
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🇬🇧 One of the best comments beneath Ganesh's column "The Labour government will deteriorate from here"
FT www.ft.com/content/68ee...
FT www.ft.com/content/68ee...
Former Fed Official Violated Trading Rules, Disclosures Show
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇬🇧 UK unemployment rate rises more than expected to 5%
Figures are a setback for government ahead of high-stakes Budget
FT www.ft.com/content/cabf...
Figures are a setback for government ahead of high-stakes Budget
FT www.ft.com/content/cabf...
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🇬🇧 UK unemployment rate rises more than expected to 5%
Figures are a setback for government ahead of high-stakes Budget
FT www.ft.com/content/cabf...
Figures are a setback for government ahead of high-stakes Budget
FT www.ft.com/content/cabf...
🇬🇧 If you really want to understand what’s going on inside the BBC, this podcast episode is an essential listen
Hosted by ex-Beeb insiders @lewisgoodall.com, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & Emily Maitlis
Very revealing
Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Global www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
Hosted by ex-Beeb insiders @lewisgoodall.com, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & Emily Maitlis
Very revealing
Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Global www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
Inside the BBC: What really went on
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/11/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🇬🇧 If you really want to understand what’s going on inside the BBC, this podcast episode is an essential listen
Hosted by ex-Beeb insiders @lewisgoodall.com, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & Emily Maitlis
Very revealing
Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Global www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
Hosted by ex-Beeb insiders @lewisgoodall.com, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & Emily Maitlis
Very revealing
Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Global www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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power, data and birds on the loneliest road in america: www.ft.com/content/729d...
The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place
Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
power, data and birds on the loneliest road in america: www.ft.com/content/729d...
🇺🇸 US consumer sentiment drops to its lowest level since June 2022 -- and the sharpest fall comes from Republicans
FT www.ft.com/content/a864...
#ConsumerSentiment #USPolitics #Economy
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#ConsumerSentiment #USPolitics #Economy
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🇺🇸 US consumer sentiment drops to its lowest level since June 2022 -- and the sharpest fall comes from Republicans
FT www.ft.com/content/a864...
#ConsumerSentiment #USPolitics #Economy
FT www.ft.com/content/a864...
#ConsumerSentiment #USPolitics #Economy