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Katie Martin

Markets Columnist

Katie Martin is a columnist and member of the FT's editorial board. She writes the weekly Long View column on market trends as well as other opinion pieces, and appears weekly on the Unhedged podcast.

Previously, she spent four years as the FT's markets editor, and also several years on the FT's live news service. Prior to joining the FT in 2015, she spent 11 years at the Dow Jones/Wall St Journal group, also covering markets.

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  • Friday, 6 March, 2026
    Markets
    Investors are not ready for a true shock

    The consensus view of the impact of the Iran war on equities and bonds may well prove too sanguine

    Katie Martin
    Birds fly over buildings as thick smoke rises from an explosion in central Tehran. A Bank Sepah sign is visible in the foreground.
  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast27 min listen
    The case against stablecoins

    Is there anything really new about them?

  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast26 min listen
    Energy prices up, markets down

    What will the war in Iran mean for markets?

  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    Markets
    Unhedged. What’s a safe asset now?

    Most of the old standbys are not working

    Katie Martin
    Premium content
    Sheets of US $100 bills are shown with a blue and red gradient overlay.
  • Monday, 2 March, 2026
    Global Economy
    Iran attacks show US haven status is in peril

    In moments of extreme uncertainty investors usually rush to the safety of US government bonds, but not this time

    Katie Martin
    Thick gray smoke billows above city buildings in Tehran following a strike.
  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    AI has driven investors to hallucinations

    Competing visions on the next big technological revolution are discombobulating markets

    Katie Martin
    An illustration showing a digital brain shape formed by glowing blue and green neural network-like lines on a dark background.
  • Thursday, 26 February, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    What the actual tariff?

    The US Supreme Court knocks old tariffs down. And new ones emerge

  • Wednesday, 25 February, 2026
    US equities
    The death of the Trump trade

    Investor backlash against US markets appears to be real

    Katie Martin
    A television broadcasts US President Donald Trump speaking at a news conference, with stock market charts on monitors in the foreground.
  • Tuesday, 24 February, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    The report that rattled Wall Street

    AI boom or AI doom?

  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    How low can the dollar go?

    Will world markets keep dumping the greenback?

  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    US dollar
    Politics is now driving the dollar

    The normal order of what influences the world’s most important reserve currency is breaking down

    Katie Martin
    Someone holding a bundle of $100 notes
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    Is AI creating jobs?

    Somebody has to build the data centres

  • Tuesday, 10 February, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast21 min listen
    What Takaichi's win means for global markets

    Stocks are surging under Japan’s new prime minister. Will that last?

  • Saturday, 7 February, 2026
    Technology
    Tech wreck signals a market reset

    Rising tide might no longer support all sector stocks, let alone speculative dross like crypto

    Katie Martin
    A large illuminated bookshelf shaped like a Bitcoin symbol at the ONBTC booth, with visitors walking by in a hallway.
  • Tuesday, 3 February, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The next Fed chair

    Who is Kevin Warsh? And how would he run the US central bank?

  • Friday, 30 January, 2026
    US dollar
    The frank warning from Switzerland on the dollar

    If the US currency continues to slide with cuts in interest rates, countries will be forced to take action

    Katie Martin
    Swiss franc banknotes in denominations of 10, 20, and 50 are arranged, each featuring the Swiss national cross.
  • Thursday, 29 January, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast25 min listen
    The incredible shrinking dollar

    Is the world finally moving away from the greenback?

  • Wednesday, 28 January, 2026
    Markets
    The precious metal feeding frenzy

    Gold and silver are on a tear but buyer beware . . .  

    Katie Martin
    Stacks of gold and silver coins, a gold bar and a silver bar from The Royal Mint, and a rectangular gold ingot with an embossed figure.
  • Tuesday, 27 January, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast24 min listen
    How does a gold rush end?

    Gold and silver are racing to records. What could stop that?

  • Friday, 23 January, 2026
    Markets
    The Taco trade has eaten itself

    Tracking the Donald Trump show has become pointless for investors in the short term

    Katie Martin
    A television on the NYSE trading floor shows US President Donald Trump speaking at the World Economic Forum, with a trader in the foreground.
  • Monday, 19 January, 2026
    Markets
    Trump’s Arctic ambitions torch the most important US asset

    The market reaction to the threat of tariffs on supposed allies over Greenland has been extremely telling

    Katie Martin
    A man in a rain jacket holds a placard showing Greenland covered by the U.S. flag, Xed out, reading "Our Land, Not Yours" at a protest.
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    Stock picking champs 2025

    What bets paid off last year?

  • Tuesday, 13 January, 2026
    Unhedged Podcast25 min listen
    Showdown at the Federal Reserve

    How will the feud between Jay Powell and Donald Trump end?

  • Monday, 12 January, 2026
    Global Economy
    The next Fed chair is . . . Donald Trump

    A criminal investigation of Jay Powell is the latest in the reworking of the world’s most important financial institution

    Katie Martin
    Donald Trump and Jerome Powell stand side by side during a tour of the Federal Reserve Board building under renovation. Powell holds a hard hat
  • Friday, 9 January, 2026
    Markets
    What is to stop Trump upending the rules in global finance too?

    Action against Venezuela and sabre-rattling towards Greenland point to risks in US president’s approach to the Fed

    Katie Martin
    Donald Trump points toward the audience while walking off stage in front of several American flags.
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