Ep 540 - Investment Market Update: Middle East tensions & platforms paying most interest on cash
The Money To The Masses Podcast
Damien Fahy
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Damien discusses the recent escalation in the Middle East and its immediate effect on global stock markets, bond markets and the price of gold. He also explains the importance of the US Dollar Index and why it is a key indicator to watch during times of geopolitical uncertainty.
Finally, as ISA season approaches, Damien and Andy look at how you can earn interest on uninvested cash held within an investment platform. They outline the different ways platforms pay interest and the best rates currently available.
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| 1:07.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 540 of the Money to the Massies podcast with your resident expert as always, Damien Faye and me, Andy Leaks Damien, welcome back. How are you doing? |
| 1:16.6 | I'm good and thank you to everybody who left comments on our Spotify channel. Each week we ask you to go and engage, leave comments, even just simple emojis, whatever you want on there. |
| 1:28.0 | And there were a number of people who did following last week's show, which was a bit of an |
| 1:31.8 | update on the Make Your Child a Millionaire concept. So thank you to those people. I'll just |
| 1:37.3 | mention a few. Poppy, Ewan, Craig, Joe, Helen. There are more of you, but thank you for |
| 1:43.1 | leaving your comments and your own views on that piece and ideas. So please, please, there are more of you, but thank you for leaving your comments and your own views on |
| 1:45.6 | that piece and ideas. So please, please, please keep doing that and review the podcast wherever you |
| 1:51.6 | consume it. And so, Andy, you ask me how I'm doing. We are all in a really uncertain world right now. |
| 1:58.6 | So I think like lots of people, probably in a slight state of shock |
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