Naomi Rovnick
@naomirovnick.bsky.social
Markets correspondent, Thomson Reuters. Free school meals kid, FT diaspora, SEND parent.
Hey I've got a great get rich quick idea.
Find lots of gullible CEOs
Tell them the Budget is a form of free advertising for them.
Cut and paste 'X Budget thing is set to increase demand for X company's services.'
Send this memo to all journalists in the world.
Charge every business £20k.
Find lots of gullible CEOs
Tell them the Budget is a form of free advertising for them.
Cut and paste 'X Budget thing is set to increase demand for X company's services.'
Send this memo to all journalists in the world.
Charge every business £20k.
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hey I've got a great get rich quick idea.
Find lots of gullible CEOs
Tell them the Budget is a form of free advertising for them.
Cut and paste 'X Budget thing is set to increase demand for X company's services.'
Send this memo to all journalists in the world.
Charge every business £20k.
Find lots of gullible CEOs
Tell them the Budget is a form of free advertising for them.
Cut and paste 'X Budget thing is set to increase demand for X company's services.'
Send this memo to all journalists in the world.
Charge every business £20k.
If I have a second child can I sacrifice part of their salary into my pension to avoid paying tax?
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If I have a second child can I sacrifice part of their salary into my pension to avoid paying tax?
Salary sacrifice pension thing going away? Very expensive for the employers of top earners.
yes but as a former guardian pension fund trustee (and now someone who has to set the rate of my employees' pensions)... the bit that's really MENTAL is adding it on employers' contributions
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Salary sacrifice pension thing going away? Very expensive for the employers of top earners.
Me trying to politely manage small businesses’ coverage and interview expectations for Budget day
a man in a green tank top stands on the beach
ALT: a man in a green tank top stands on the beach
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Me trying to politely manage small businesses’ coverage and interview expectations for Budget day
On third mention it is now permissable to refer to the late Mr Epstein as ’the deceased plane-spotter.’ Yours, the subs.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Epstein kept close eye on Trump even after friendship soured, newly released emails reveal
Documents show staff kept Epstein informed of Trump’s air travel – and Epstein kept up with news about former friend
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
On third mention it is now permissable to refer to the late Mr Epstein as ’the deceased plane-spotter.’ Yours, the subs.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation — theonion.com/no-not-larry...
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation — theonion.com/no-not-larry...
As a former part-time florist and current markets reporter, the brown rose may signal 'stability' or an Autumn rate cut :)
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
As a former part-time florist and current markets reporter, the brown rose may signal 'stability' or an Autumn rate cut :)
This is what happens when I open Twitter these days. I will not transliterate it because ick.
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is what happens when I open Twitter these days. I will not transliterate it because ick.
Hi
@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 😢
@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 😢
August 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hi
@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 😢
@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 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.
July 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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 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...
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Dollar's surprise rebound stymies anti-Trump trades
Investors' conviction that U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and debt spree would spark long-term pain for the dollar and U.S. stocks is crumbling, signaling pain ahead for assets across Europe and emerging markets that were boosted by this view.
www.reuters.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
'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...
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.
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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.
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.
July 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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.
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.'
The dollar had its worst half-year in the six months to June since 1973, because Trump. The dollar is the new 'Fed put.'
July 31, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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.'
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.
July 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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.
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/...
That's Trump, the tariffs are the eternal feud and it is all a show.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
World News | Latest Top Stories | Reuters
Reuters.com is your online source for the latest world news stories and current events, ensuring our readers up to date with any breaking news developments
www.reuters.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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/...
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...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Britain in 2025: sick man of Europe battling untreated illness crisis
As poverty deepens across Britain, the Guardian visited some of the hardest-hit places where leaders are aiming to shift healthcare from hospitals to communities
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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...
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...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Here’s how to make the most of it.
www.theatlantic.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Is it OK to enjoy my professional decline, given the ascent was so extremely taxing?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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.
Solutions welcome, however silly.
June 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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.
Solutions welcome, however silly.
We were all just neurodiverse, I think. Sigh.
June 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
We were all just neurodiverse, I think. Sigh.
I 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?
June 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I 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?
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
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
June 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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
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.
June 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
Today in ‘he told you who he was, why didn’t you listen?’
Foreign tax provision in Trump budget bill spooks Wall Street
https://www.ft.com/content/b400009a-9a0e-4ee0-b6ed-2a25c2de0d8f
https://www.ft.com/content/b400009a-9a0e-4ee0-b6ed-2a25c2de0d8f
Foreign tax provision in Trump budget bill spooks Wall Street
Legislation would erode the appeal of US financial assets, banks and investors say
www.ft.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Today in ‘he told you who he was, why didn’t you listen?’