FTSE @9,000 for the first time in its history

Baldytyke88

Richard Murphy, there is a stock market crash coming

Posted on July 31st 2025

We've seen it before — 1929, 1987, 2000, 2008, 2020. Markets rise, then fall off a cliff. But this time, the economic damage could be worse. Trump's tariffs, political incompetence, poverty, and debt are all tightening the screws. In this video, I explain why current policies are setting us up for collapse — and how we must rethink economics before it's too late.

Trump and his tariffs does worry me, economists say they will increase inflation and reduce trade, so there may be a crash, but will it happen this year?

I am selling some of my shares, I have very little in cash and savings rates are above inflation, so maybe selling is a good idea for everyone.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/31/there-is-a-stock-market-crash-coming/

ColdIron

The FTSE 100 hit 9,000 last month

Richard Murphy is a socialist Cassandra. He is invariably wrong, has predicted 17 of the last 2 crashes and is safely (and almost universally) ignored

Alistair31

“This time it’s different” 

Yawn!

Linton

Baldytyke88 said:

Richard Murphy, there is a stock market crash coming

Posted on July 31st 2025

We've seen it before — 1929, 1987, 2000, 2008, 2020. Markets rise, then fall off a cliff. But this time, the economic damage could be worse. Trump's tariffs, political incompetence, poverty, and debt are all tightening the screws. In this video, I explain why current policies are setting us up for collapse — and how we must rethink economics before it's too late.

Trump and his tariffs does worry me, economists say they will increase inflation and reduce trade, so there may be a crash, but will it happen this year?

I am selling some of my shares, I have very little in cash and savings rates are above inflation, so maybe selling is a good idea for everyone.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/31/there-is-a-stock-market-crash-coming/

How come you have any shares left?  The FTSE100 had an all time high at close of business above 8000 in April 2024 and above 8500 In January this year, obviously passing all time highs many times between these dates.

Google tells me that in the past 100 years "the stock exchange" (unspecified) has been at an all time high at the end of the month 31% of the time and that includes several major crashes, world war, etc

Baldytyke88

According to the data on this website, the FTSE PE ratio is at a 20-year high.

https://worldperatio.com/area/united-kingdom/

Eyeful

Of course there is a stock market crash coming,.the question is WHEN.
No one can foretell the future, not even Mr. Murphy or Warren Buffet.

Warren Buffet does not claim a stock market crash is coming. 
However he is, building up his cash pile, in the same way he has done before previous stock market crashes.
That does suggest he is getting ready for stormy weather ahead.

Linton

Eyeful said:

Of course there is a stock market crash coming,.the question is WHEN.
No one can foretell the future, not even Mr. Murphy or Warren Buffet.

Warren Buffet does not claim a stock market crash is coming. 
However he is, building up his cash pile, in the same way he has done before previous stock market crashes.
That does suggest he is getting ready for stormy weather ahead.

There is always a stock market crash coming and the question always is "when".  Rather than diverting your investment strategy when you predict, probably wrongly, it will happen it is better in my view to always allocate your assets in the full knowledge that a major but temporary crash is a possibility at any time.

jimjames

Baldytyke88 said:

According to the data on this website, the FTSE PE ratio is at a 20-year high.

You need to be more specific, the FTSE 250 is PE 12.1 which isn't a high point

nottsphil

ColdIron said:

, has predicted 17 of the last 2 crashes 

Erm........

ColdIron

nottsphil said:

ColdIron said:

, has predicted 17 of the last 2 crashes 

Erm........

Perhaps I should have used an emoji to reinforce my meaning but I felt it was rather evident and would have broken the flow of my sentence

dunstonh

Or putting it another way, a stopped clock is correct twice a day.

Is it just me, or has the savings and investments section been rather dull of late?   Threads about speculation have made this section rather boring.