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Playing FTSE

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We"re a UK based podcast discussing all types of investing. Light-hearted and info-packed, we"ll try our best to bring you great coverage of the markets, stocks, politics, and loads of other things in a way that’s accessible and (we hope) entertaining!

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01:04:52

Buy Now Pay Later, Dodgy Accounting and Burry's Big...

Playing FTSE ·

2025/11/23

Who’s going to win the Ashes? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!In a down week for the stock market, it’s Steve W who’s been making it happen for the show this week. He’s down slightly less than Steve D – is that what winning looks like?Nvidia’s earnings this week looked pretty good – sales growth was strong and is expected to be strong in the next quarter. But the stock went the wrong way the following day. One reason is the Bitcoin fall, but Steve W thinks there’s more going on. Is the

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01:17:40

Almost A Building Sector Special!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/11/16

Who’s winning 2-0? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Steve W’s matched the S&P 500 this week and Steve D’s not far behind. Despite some big movements, it’s all pretty tight in the stock market this week.3i – one of the FTSE 100’s top performers – crashed at the end of the week. It’s been a bad year for private equity firms, but the company had been holding up well. Steve W thinks he knows what’s going on. And it has less to do with the private equity theme than the ongoing retail theme of

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01:15:44

The Unsexy & The Unloved

Playing FTSE ·

2025/11/09

Who’s been making hailstones fall? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show.Steve W has had a dreadful week in the stock market and it’s not been better for Spurs on the football pitch. But Steve D’s here to save the show and the week. Rightmove shares crashed on Friday after the company issued its Q3 update. That bit was fine, but there are some lower profit margins on the way with AI investing.Is that enough to justify the stock falling so much? Steve W doesn’t think so, but software stocks in

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01:10:24

The Good, The Bad & The Strange?

Playing FTSE ·

2025/11/02

Who’s doing a Warren Buffett with a secret stock? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show.Steve W has had a dreadful week in the stock market and it’s not been better for Spurs on the football pitch. But Steve D’s here to save the show and the week. Alphabet is hitting new highs after a strong earnings report. Investors are impressed by its Google Cloud results – and future spending – and the stock is going higher. Steve D owns this one and he’s feeling good about the future. And that’s before we

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01:14:34

Netflix Sinks & B&M Stinks - Plus A Hot New IPO!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/10/26

Who buys branded tuna!? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Both Steves have nailed it this week – head of the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500. There are 51 other weeks in this year, sadly, but we’ll take the wins where we can get them.Netflix shares fell 10% as earnings came in below expectations. But this was the result of a one-off tax hit in Brazil that’s going to mess up the P/E ratio for the next 12 months.Does that make a buying opportunity? It’s hardly the 2022 situation where everything

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01:10:07

Is The AI Bubble About To Burst?

Playing FTSE ·

2025/10/19

► Get a free fractional share!What’s the tail risk for the stock market? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!A big underperformance from one Steve this week and a big outperformance from the other one. But who’s managed to do what?October’s Bank of America Fund Managers Survey suggests investors are worrying about an AI bubble. So we’re revising this theme as a potential stock market crash. Steve W’s been looking at Nvidia’s unusual deals and the question of whether there are echoes of the

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01:14:42

Is A Crash Coming?

Playing FTSE ·

2025/10/12

What do hedge fund managers think is going to cause a stock market crash? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!All change this week – Steve W creeps back towards being average as Steve D’s portfolio has an off week. But why’s it a bad week to be Welsh?The stock market is definitely going to crash, the only questions are when and why? One candidate is a bursting AI bubble, which is what Steve D’s been looking at.Steve W’s been looking at the latest data from Bank of America for ideas. Hedge funds

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01:10:31

Greggs, AG Barr & Why Pharma Is Rocketing!

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2025/10/05

What is Chinese tapas? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Steve W’s had a below-average week, but Steve D is absolutely running away with it. Or at least, he would be if he hadn’t had such a big lunch…A year has passed since Steve W thought he saw 30% upside in AG Barr shares, so it’s time to check in on that idea. And the results so far have been… mixed.On the one hand, the company has done what it said it would and progress is actually ahead of schedule. On the other hand, however, the stock

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00:59:36

Reviewing Our Portfolios Q3!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/09/28

Who does Steve D want to open the England batting? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!It’s the end of Q3 and time to check in on the PlayingTSE portfolios. And the last week hasn’t been a particularly good one for either Steve.Steve W has finally managed to buy a European stock for his portfolio. It’s LVMH, which has actually done quite well over the last three months or so. Elsewhere, there are a couple of new UK additions, one from the FTSE 100 and one from the FTSE 250. But which stock is

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01:19:12

Trumps Market Changes - How Bad Are They For Investors?

Playing FTSE ·

2025/09/21

What has more rabbits than people? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Steve D is back from holiday and his portfolio is firing on just about every cylinder available. Steve W hasn’t done badly, but it’s been a great week for the man from Hull…Nearly nobody thinks the US stock market should be more like the UK. But President Trump has floated plans to shift US-listed firms to reporting twice a year. The idea isn’t entirely without merit, but it doesn’t look like an obviously good move. Steve

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01:02:40

Our Favourite Episode Ever (Re-Release)

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2025/09/14

► Get a free share!This show is sponsored by Trading 212! To get free fractional shares worth up to 100 EUR / GBP, you can open an account with Trading 212 through this link https://www.trading212.com/Jdsfj/FTSE. Terms apply.When investing, your capital is at risk and you may get back less than invested.Past performance doesn’t guarantee future results.► Get 15% OFF Fiscal.ai:Huge thanks to our sponsor, Fiscal.ai, the best investing toolkit we've discovered! Get 15% off your subscription with

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01:17:29

Google, Zscaler & The High Yield Financials

Playing FTSE ·

2025/09/07

What’s Steve W worrying about at the end of the month? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Both Steves are ahead of the market this week – or at least, they were when we recorded this week’s show! But one is more ahead than the other…The big story this week is Alphabet’s antitrust case and there are two parts to it. The significance of being forced to share data with competitors is not to be underestimated.The company can, however, keep spending its way to being the default search engine on the

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01:13:29

From GPU to Gate Gourmet

Playing FTSE ·

2025/08/31

What’s Steve D been doing with his plums? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Matching results this week for the Steves. Both down, both in between the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500, but both the same – not a particularly noteworthy performance.Nvidia’s remarkable growth story continues, but how remarkable actually is it? It’s twice Alphabet’s market cap for half the revenues and Steve W isn’t sure that’s a good deal.On top of that, there’s the China issue to think about. That’s weighing on

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01:14:12

Clockwork Earnings, Soft Cycles and Accounting Blunders

Playing FTSE ·

2025/08/24

Who’s in Steve D’s Fantasy Football team? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Both Steves seem to have solved the stock market this week, with portfolios going up on days where the S&P 500 has gone down. But only one has outperformed this week…Shares in WH Smith crashed 42% on Thursday after the company issued a profit warning. But it bounced back 11% on Friday as investors took in the news. Steve W is a shareholder. Accounting irregularities are never a welcome development, but is this a

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01:21:50

AXON Deep Dive With Stocks & Savings!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/08/17

Who’s gone from a partnership to a limited company? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Steve W’s away on holiday this week, but before he went away he sat down with Jamie from Stocks and Savings to catch up. It’s been a while, so how are they getting on?Jamie and Andreea have gone from being an Instagram operation to running a podcast of their own. And they’re storming up the Apple podcast charts…Axon Enterprise is one of the stocks that we haven’t really talked about much on the show. And

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01:03:22

A Toast To Our Hosts!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/08/10

What is a “Broista”? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Mixed fortunes for the Steves this week in the stock market. It’s a return to normality for Steve D, but Steve W has underperformed just about everything. Diageo’s full-year results caused the stock to climb 10% – but Steve W owns the stock and didn’t see the results as terribly positive.It’s not long ago that investors were told to expect 5% per year in organic growth at least. Never mind, at least Gen Z are actually drinking more than

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01:12:23

Amazon, Croda, Transmedics & A Taylor Wimpey Deep Dive

Playing FTSE ·

2025/08/03

What happened with Rentokil this week? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!It’s not been a good week for either Steve – or the FTSE 100, or the S&P 500. Steve W’s in between the indexes and Steve D’s below them both. Taylor Wimpey is the latest addition to Steve D’s portfolio. But the firm made a loss and lowered its dividend as a result of cladding provisions during the first half of the year.That, however, should be a one-off thing. And Steve W has some macroeconomic data to support the

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01:05:19

Google, Judges, VAT & A New Stock For Your Watchlist!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/07/27

What’s half the price of Nvidia and makes twice the revenues? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Neither Steve has done as well as they were hoping this week. Steve W’s disappointed to find himself between the indexes and Steve D’s had some big fallers. Reports of Google losing market share don’t seem to be hitting Alphabet’s revenues… yet. There’s strong growth across the board, especially in the Cloud division.There’s also news of YouTube continuing to grab market share in US screen time

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01:07:19

ASML, Ashtead, Wise & Lots of UK Changes Coming!

Playing FTSE ·

2025/07/20

What does Trading212’s AI think both Steves are missing from their portfolios? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!It’s been a volatile week in the stock market with a lot of big ups and downs. And the Steves have had differing results this time out.Rachel Reeves delivered her Mansion House speech this week and it caught Steve W’s attention. In particular, the Leeds Reforms are looking to get the UK stock market moving.Overall, more people considering Stocks and Shares ISAs would seem to be a

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01:06:16

Construction, Technology & Fundsmith Underperforms Again

Playing FTSE ·

2025/07/13

Who has to try and figure out what to do in the mornings? Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!Another week, another outperformance for one Steve. And the other one hasn’t done bad, either…Terry Smith – known to some as Britain’s Warren Buffett – has released his shareholder letter for the first half of 2025. And the Fundsmith Equity Fund has been losing money.Chief among the detractors is Novo Nordisk, which has been sold to make way for EssilorLuxottica. But the stocks catching Steve W’s

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