Why is the FTSE 100 soaring – and can its run continue?
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The flying Footsie is on course for the best start to the year since 1998 and driving it are 20 stocks that have risen by 50% or more in the past year.
Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost discuss what's going on for the flagship UK index and whether the run can continue.
They also zoom in on Rolls Royce... its shares have soared by more than a thousand per cent in five years. Is it too late to join the party?
When it comes to Junior Isas, many parents worry that once their children get access, they'll fritter it away - but is that really the case? New analysis suggests not.
And NS&I has cut the underlying rate on its Premium Bonds to 3.3%. Is it time to move your money?
The Government is rolling out the next phase of making tax digital which will require some to file quarterly - is expensive chaos on the way?
Lastly, can you save money with an EV versus a petrol equivalent? Or does the maths simply not add up?
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast, sponsored by Trading 212. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce. |
| 0:09.2 | And coming up, the Flying Futsi is on course for the best start to the year since 1998. But what are we buying? |
| 0:16.3 | Zooming in on Rolls-Royce shares of sword over 1,000% in five years. Is it too late to join the party? Also today, what do kids do with their junior icers when they turn 18? NS&I cuts the premium bond prize rate again. We look at the government's making tax digital. It's expensive chaos on the way. And would you really save money with an EV? |
| 0:41.0 | Don't forget you to out to date. With all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.com. UK or download the app. But first, as Simon mentioned last week with his stat of the week, |
| 0:47.3 | the Futsi 100 has been on something of a tear up this year. In fact, the London stock market is |
| 0:51.8 | enjoying its best start of the year for nearly three decades as it closes in on the 11,000 mark. |
| 0:58.2 | The gains so far this year are 8.8%. |
| 1:01.8 | It's been helped by the Tasty 20, the stocks that have all gone up over 50%. |
| 1:07.2 | But before we get there, Simon, just a reminder why the rise? And also, I'm curious, what happened in 1998? |
| 1:15.3 | In 1998, something called the dot-com boom was just getting a bit of a run-up and starting to move into full swing. |
| 1:25.3 | That was mainly a US phenomenon, but markets were riding high and doing well. |
| 1:31.2 | The country was riding a wave of optimism in the UK, fuelled by a new Labour government, and Cool Britannia. |
| 1:47.5 | This was peak Cool Britannia years. Labor were elected in 97. The economy started picking up. Largely actually, you know, one of the things |
| 1:54.3 | is connected to is that the sort of early to mid-90s years had been really quite miserable |
| 2:00.0 | economically. We'd seen the really bad recession at the been really quite miserable economically. We'd seen the |
| 2:02.0 | really bad recession that started the 90s. We had seen the housing market as well really suffered. |
| 2:07.3 | It's actually hard for us to think about now because every time the housing market has |
| 2:11.8 | suffered since the financial crisis, we've propped it up. but back then we didn't prop it up in the same |
| 2:18.0 | way. |
| 2:19.0 | That was starting to rebound and so you had this uptick that was going on. |
| 2:24.3 | And sometimes you just get good years for the stock market. |
| 2:26.7 | And sometimes it doesn't even rhyme with what's going on in the general mood in the country. |
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