Matthew Lynn

United Kingdom

Financial Columnist at The Telegraph

Financial Columnist at MoneyWeek

Founder of the Crowd Investor newsletter. Financial columnist for The Daily Telegraph and Money Week, and the author of the Death Force thrillers

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Articles

Donald Trump has set his eyes on one of the UK’s most successful industries

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Matthew Lynn

The next James Bond movie might have to be filmed in California. Producers will have to find somewhere in Massachusetts or Maine that can double up for Hogwarts for the new Harry Potter series. And Notting Hill II, if it ever happens, might have to shift Hugh Grant’s bookshop to Greenwich Village.
If Trump has his way, the next Bond will be set in California

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Lynn

His solution to this problem? A draconian new tax on the industry. Any movie that is not filmed in the United States could soon be subject to a 100pc tariff. That won't just apply to a handful of French or Korean art house movies, which probably don't do much business in the multiplexes of Tennessee or Texas anyway, but to all the blockbusters filmed elsewhere. It is, of course, only a threat right now.
Britain needs its richest woman to put her country first

1 week ago | finance.yahoo.com | Matthew Lynn

Unlock stock picks and a broker-level newsfeed that powers Wall Street. Matthew Lynn Sun, May 4, 2025, 6:00 AM 5 min read Denise Coates is considering selling a chunk of her Bet365 empire to an American private equity firm ahead of a potential listing in New York In the admittedly unlikely event that Shakespeare was turning it into a play, he might be tempted to add in the phrase “Et tu, Denise?”.
Britain needs its richest woman to put her country first

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Lynn

In the admittedly unlikely event that Shakespeare was turning it into a play, he might be tempted to add in the phrase "Et tu, Denise?". We are already depressingly used to a steady stream of tycoons and entrepreneurs leaving the UK. But it emerged this week that Britain's richest woman, the gambling tycoon Denise Coates, was considering selling a chunk of her Bet365 empire to an American private equity firm ahead of a potential listing in New York.
Labour’s catastrophic defeat is a massive economic risk

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Matthew Lynn

Cutting the winter fuel allowance was a terrible mistake, they will say. Attempting to save money on the welfare bill is far too harsh. Public sector pay needs to go up, we need more subsidies for industry, and, perhaps most of all, the Chancellor’s fiscal rules will have to be loosened if the Government is to have a chance of surviving.
Labour's catastrophic defeat is a massive economic risk

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Lynn

Add it up, and one point is clear. The Government was already close to losing control of public spending. If it starts offering yet more bribes to its core voters, the UK's debts will start to spiral upwards. We are already borrowing more than 5pc of GDP, and our total stock of outstanding debt will very soon breach the critical 100pc of GDP barrier.
Will falling interest rates save Rachel Reeves?

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Matthew Lynn

There is not much that Chancellor Rachel Reeves can look forward to right now. The Labour party has just been hammered in the local elections. The economy has stagnated, and government borrowing has started to spiral out of control. There is, however, this: the City now expects interest rates to start falling at the fastest pace since the financial crisis a decade and a half ago.
Will falling interest rates save Rachel Reeves?

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Matthew Lynn

There is not much that Chancellor Rachel Reeves can look forward to right now. The Labour party has just been hammered in the local elections. The economy has stagnated, and government borrowing has started to spiral out of control. There is, however, this: the City now expects interest rates to start falling at the fastest pace since the financial crisis a decade and a half ago. There is just one catch: it probably won’t be enough to save Reeves’s failing chancellorship.
Have the markets stopped caring about Trump’s tariffs?

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Matthew Lynn

President Trump’s imposition of huge tariffs on everything America imports on ‘Liberation Day’ at the start of this month has been widely condemned as one of the worst economic policy blunders of all time. There were fears the stock market would collapse. Investors are abandoning the United States for Europe.
Have the markets stopped caring about Trump's tariffs?

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Matthew Lynn

President Trump’s imposition of huge tariffs on everything America imports on ‘Liberation Day’ at the start of this month has been widely condemned as one of the worst economic policy blunders of all time. There were fears the stock market would collapse. Investors are abandoning the United States for Europe. And the country is about to be plunged into stagflation. But something odd has happened. If you look at a stock market chart, basically nothing happened in April.