@naomirovnick.bsky.social
Markets correspondent, Thomson Reuters. Free school meals kid, FT diaspora, SEND parent.
As a former part-time florist and current markets reporter, the brown rose may signal 'stability' or an Autumn rate cut :)
11.09.2025 13:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is what happens when I open Twitter these days. I will not transliterate it because ick.
08.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First night of holiday = drinks al fresco by the car park by the motorway adjacent to Luton Airport. @easyjet desk staff said airline would comp the room and replacement flight tomorrow morning but refused to put this in writing. I’m £500 down.
21.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi
@easyJet
I had to spend 3 hours waiting in Luton airport for staff to fulfil legal rights for cancelled flight (rerouting with another carrier/hotel). My autistic child had two meltdowns while we hung around (sensory hell for him). 2nd horrific experience with you now 😢
Keep an eye on the dollar and copper.
The US currency, which investors are mostly short, has just surged. US copper prices have just registered the biggest daily decline on record and 'benchmark' London copper is falling too.
'The dollar will weaken' was investors' most popular view just two weeks ago. Its up 2.2% this week. Non-US assets that boomed because they were 'not dollars' are dropping. Always remember the words of the Wu Tang Clan. "Cash rules everything, dolla dolla bills."
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
The Make Europe Great Again trade (blue line in chart) has called and says it feels poorly and probably won't be in for the rest of the week.
31.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US stocks are not falling on the Fed resisting rate cuts because the Fed is supporting the dollar. This chart from Barclays shows that the 'rest of the world' trade was very much led by investors trying to not get clobbered by the weakening dollar. So dollar up = buy more Google.
31.07.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is the US dollar index, after last night's Fed meeting.
The dollar had its worst half-year in the six months to June since 1973, because Trump. The dollar is the new 'Fed put.'
I am a middle aged, middle class, middle England woman who has covered my rattan sofa set 3 seconds before the rains came. This was of course the happiest moment of my life post-45 and the level of joy I’ll be fine not to feel again.
14.07.2025 18:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone remember Big Daddy in WWF, that 'heroic' all-American patriot who mainly charged at his opponents and used constant motion to conceal that he didn't have many good skills or moves?
That's Trump, the tariffs are the eternal feud and it is all a show.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
This is one lie of austerity. Areas of spending are slashed but need isn't. So it travels, scarily. Homeless young women are self-harming to get hospital beds. In some UK areas, A&E attendance has almost doubled in 15 years and ambulance call-outs rose 61%.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Is it OK to enjoy my professional decline, given the ascent was so extremely taxing?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I am awake at midnight because I moved to a new area and woke up to a neighbourhood cat attacking my cat.
Solutions welcome, however silly.
We were all just neurodiverse, I think. Sigh.
29.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The driver said he'd bring the phone back if I pay the fare - very reasonable - but I have to put money in his bank. I cannot do that without the phone.
18.06.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I left my iPhone in a taxi and realised my existence and identity have gone with it. Buying food, travelling and all communication with other humans needs mobile apps to send texts, scan my face and tell robots I am not a robot. My child thinks I am in Slough, because the phone is. Cogito ergo sim?
18.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Moving house with ADHD is:
Buy pretty notebooks, make lists.
Colour-code the lists.
Contemplate how I am both organising my move and not organising it at the same time.
Sudden urge to read about the Barber Paradox and Schrödinger again, for an hour.
FFS
It makes me very happy that the German compound word for queue is 'waiting snake.' And even happier that the German wikipedia entry for 'queue' includes this wonderfully serpentine image.
03.06.2025 14:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today in ‘he told you who he was, why didn’t you listen?’
29.05.2025 21:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All for inclusive beauty pageants but we’ll know we’ve progressed as a nation when the potential winner also having a disability goes unremarked, rather being presented as ‘the news.’
29.05.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People with disabilities have done stuff like found Microsoft and discover the theory of gravity. Stevie Wonder and Beethoven kinda rose above disability too. I’ve no idea why the idea of someone with a disability winning a beauty contest is surprising enough to appear in a headline.
29.05.2025 20:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ofc this only works as a juxtaposition headline if you are massively ableist.
www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
Just had the best haircut (with bonus free head massage and Mandarin speaking practice) at the Chinese-Malay-run Cut Studio in Waterloo. Great service, v reasonable prices, highly recommend. thecutstudio.co.uk
29.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So there's thing that happens in markets where unleashing massive recession threats on the world makes the cost of borrowed money - via bond markets - fall. Just saying.
www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
Ah OK, I get it
23.05.2025 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is 2027, the iPhone costs $8,000, social media has died out and here's Trump asking his 93 Instagram followers why Bitcoin is trading at $0.0028
23.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The blue line here is UK 30-year gilt yield, which sets our own government's cost of borrowing. Its more than the US equivalent, despite Trump. And its above 5.5%, which is insane when you consider a 5-year mortgage is about 3.9% and personal loans for creditworthy UK borrowers are about 6%.
23.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
