John Stepek

There's a slight, and sorry for taking his name in vain, the Martin Lewis-ness about the whole thing of, okay, you need to do it in this order and you need to kind of fill this one up, but don't put too much in this one and then compare the, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

And the element of kind of spending an awful lot of time to say, God, it's terrible to say this, but it's whether you can be bothered is something to take into account here.

But doing those are all reasonable points.

And these are bigger sums than just switching bank account regularly.

It's really?

Welcome to the Merrin Talks Money Markets Wrap.

We'll be talking about the latest moves in the market this week and what's been driving them.

I'm John Stebbick, senior reporter and author of the Money Distilled newsletter.

I'm filling in for Merrin as she's off on holiday.

And joining me in the London studio today for our market wrap is Sam Unstead, editor on the Markets Today live blog, which a regular, regular reader of keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Welcome to the show, Sam.

Thanks very much for joining us.

Thank you very much.

I mean, it's been quite a busy few weeks, really, with the UK and politics and all the rest of it.

But one thing we got this week, which I thought was interesting, is all of the economic data that's come out.

So we've had jobs and inflation.

And today, as we're recording on Thursday, we've had the PMI as well.

And it's actually been kind of a relief in a funny kind of way because guilt markets have kind of come off a bit because of this.

Yeah.

Well, it's also in the wages, isn't it?