Stock market turmoil spreads across the globe – what's causing it and how concerned should we be?
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This is Money
4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As stock market turmoil spreads across the globe, the advice is to keep calm and carry on, folks.
In the latest This is Money podcast, editor Simon Lambert and host Georgie Frost discuss what's causing it, how long will it go on for and how concerned we should be.
Because we're a positive bunch, we also reveal the shares that have rocketed over the last five years, some by more than 1,000 per cent.
Also, we answer a reader query about state pensions - can couples inherit it from each other and how much might they get?
Elsewhere, we take a look at the best way to clear your buy-to-let loan and discover how to bag a property bargain.
Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast in partnership with NS&I. I'm your host Georgie Frost and alongside me today is |
| 0:06.9 | editor Simon Lambert. And coming up, keep calm and carry on folks. As the stock market turmoil spreads |
| 0:13.1 | across the globe, the advice is to... |
| 0:15.2 | Play it nice and cool, son. Nice and cool, you know what I mean? But what's causing it and how |
| 0:20.2 | concerned should we be |
| 0:21.8 | because we're a positive bunch here we'll also be looking at the shares that have rocketed recently |
| 0:26.8 | we answer a reader query about inheriting state pensions we look at the best way to clear your |
| 0:32.2 | buy-to-let loan and discover how to bank a property bargain don't forget you stay up to date with all the latest breaking money news. |
| 0:39.8 | Just go to this ismoney.com.uk or download the app. |
| 0:44.1 | This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS&I, where safer savings set you free. |
| 0:51.0 | But first, stock markets around the world tumbled this week. |
| 0:53.8 | At home, dropping 6% since the start of October. |
| 0:57.3 | Investors have been left wondering, well, how much worse can things get? |
| 1:00.9 | Especially, as even some of the footsie's stars have taken a rather big tumble, |
| 1:05.5 | and it seems to be across the board, from the big house builders, airlines, clothing companies and tech firms to the |
| 1:12.7 | smaller investor darlings like purple brick and fever tree down about a quarter in three months. |
| 1:18.9 | So what on earth is going on and what should, if anything, you be doing as an investor right now? |
| 1:25.4 | Welcome, Simon. Explain what's been happening. |
| 1:29.6 | Well, after a fairly prolonged period of time |
| 1:32.7 | in which things were just going up, |
| 1:35.2 | things have stopped just going up |
| 1:37.6 | and have now been going down. |
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