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Naomi Rovnick

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Markets correspondent, Thomson Reuters. Free school meals kid, FT diaspora, SEND parent.

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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent column and a terrible reminder of how much lower the bar for criticism (and bullying) is set for anyone who is different. "His story was never discussed without a miasma of race." Thank you @stephenkb.bsky.social for writing this. www.ft.com/content/5f92...
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The difficult truth about Jason Arday
From the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
FT is writing love letters to Apple. Very sweet. www.ft.com/content/95fd...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/03/2026
Exclusive: Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of trafficking children for sex, bought a property in New Hampshire where she was found hiding in 2020. Swiss bank UBS released the money for the purchase on her behalf in 2019 despite a subpoena over Maxwell's money, DOJ documents show reut.rs/4rZKTqn
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Exclusive: How UBS helped Epstein accomplice Maxwell buy her hideout, 'Tucked Away'
In rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156‑acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
UBS released funds for Ghislaine Maxwell to buy the house she was captured in before her child sex trafficking conviction. UBS had said it would stop banking her months earlier. There was an active subpoena. Exclusive with @reuters.com Tom Sims, John O'Donnell. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Exclusive: How UBS helped Epstein accomplice Maxwell buy her hideout, 'Tucked Away'
In rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156‑acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In the ten days before his arrest: www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Exclusive: A palace in Marrakesh: How Schwab moved $27.7 million in payments for Epstein days before his arrest
Charles Schwab wired about $27.7 million on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein to a realtor in Morocco as the disgraced financier tried to purchase a palace in the 10 days before his 2019 arrest, including one...
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Charles Schwab wired about $27.7 million overseas on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein as he tried to purchase a palace in Morocco in the 10 days before his arrest. @reuters.com exclusive w @bradheath.bsky.social @niveditab.bsky.social bsky.social @elisamartinuzzi.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Bluesky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Style ruling: on second mention we will go with The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Epstein's power broker targeted powerful UK editors to try and cleanse his reputation, a few years after that first conviction. Claimed that the then-editors of the FT and the Economist would be more interested in Epstein's opinions about the world economy than in "tabloid headlines." Hmmm.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If journalists were PRs we might: Threaten no relationship unless companies let us change their reports before publication. Make interviewees sign NDAs to enter our building. Share info they gave us with whoever, perhaps leak it to rivals. Say we are a professional service, despite no regulator.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If only the council, which appears to have a surfeit of staff to collect money they are not actually owed by me, could perhaps move a few more people into roles that involve picking up the phone to discuss their billing errors.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If I have a second child can I sacrifice part of their salary into my pension to avoid paying tax?
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Salary sacrifice pension thing going away? Very expensive for the employers of top earners.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Me trying to politely manage small businesses’ coverage and interview expectations for Budget day
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a man in a green tank top stands on the beach
ALT: a man in a green tank top stands on the beach
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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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
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation  — theonion.com/no-not-larry...
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‘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...
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
youtu.be/87Ooph8w1pk
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אחינו כל בית ישראל - שי אברמסון ולהקת הרבנות הצבאית
YouTube video by Shai Abramson - Official Channel
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
As a former part-time florist and current markets reporter, the brown rose may signal 'stability' or an Autumn rate cut :)
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This is what happens when I open Twitter these days. I will not transliterate it because ick.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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 😢
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
'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...
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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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.'
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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/...
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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
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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...
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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
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Is it OK to enjoy my professional decline, given the ascent was so extremely taxing? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Here’s how to make the most of it.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We were all just neurodiverse, I think. Sigh.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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?
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today in ‘he told you who he was, why didn’t you listen?’
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Ofc this only works as a juxtaposition headline if you are massively ableist. www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
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Woman told she would never walk again could be England’s Miss World
After Milla Magee quit the pageant complaining of being ‘made to feel like a prostitute’ Charlotte Grant has stepped into her stilettos in India
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just had the best haircut (with bonus free head massage and Mandarin speaking practice) at the Chinese-Malay-run Cut Studio in Waterloo. Great service, v reasonable prices, highly recommend. thecutstudio.co.uk
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Nails, Waxing and Hairs
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So there's thing that happens in markets where unleashing massive recession threats on the world makes the cost of borrowed money - via bond markets - fall. Just saying. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
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This Trump Building Appears To Be Deeply Underwater
The president owes a fortune against New York skyscraper. Will he get the cash from someone eager to display loyalty—or from the many who already have?
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Ah OK, I get it
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It is 2027, the iPhone costs $8,000, social media has died out and here's Trump asking his 93 Instagram followers why Bitcoin is trading at $0.0028
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Folk tend to sell the 30-year Treasury when they really can't fathom what's coming up next for growth, inflation, rates etc. The yield on this debt, which rises when the price falls, is about where it was in mid '07 when the financial crisis (Bear Stearns hedge funds collapse) began to unfold.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I often wonder if 'big tariffs' will ever happen or if they're an ideological tool designed - a bit stupidly because of inflation - to make people and companies in the U.S. spend money. www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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US business activity improves in May; inflation poised to accelerate sharply
U.S. business activity picked up in May amid a truce in the trade war between Washington and China, but President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on imported goods raised prices for companies and consumers.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"We've got all these scenarios and then it turns out a week later you might as well just chuck them into the bin" www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Tariff-fogged markets leave investors flying blind
Global investors admit to flying blind in markets roiled by erratic U.S. trade rhetoric and chaotic economic forecasting, stressing that placing long-term bets was harder now than at any time since the 2020 COVID crisis.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I suspect that because participating in the U.S. stock market ponzi scheme has become the best way to stay ahead of inflation, we'll all just keep shoveling money into it anytime doing so seems vaguely rational www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Wall St stock futures soar as US, China slash tariffs
U.S. stock index futures jumped on Monday after the United States and China reached a deal to reduce tariffs, signaling a truce in a punishing trade war that had kept markets on edge for weeks.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is a question from the B2 language test the UK government says people who want to settle in the UK will have to pass. I fear deportation 😀
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
For now... www.reuters.com/markets/glob...
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Stocks, dollar surge as US and China agree 90-day tariff relief
Wall Street stock futures surged, the dollar rallied and gold prices slumped on Monday as the U.S. and China agreed to temporarily slash the harsh tariffs imposed on each other and work together to limit economically damaging trade spats.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We're yet to discover if Trump and Xi have finally matured beyond the 'making up and breaking' phase of childlike conflict resolution.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My kid has autism and when he was 5 he ‘couldn’t’ spell mat, cat etc. Bit ‘behind.’ Then one day he came home and spelled these words independently. Star Wars was his special interest. Mat, cat etc was just boring. I want all teachers to be autism-aware and feel the force of special interests.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
If you've read the Mar a Lago accord, which threatens to nuke US bond markets, Japan's threat here is a rubber bullet www.reuters.com/markets/asia...
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Japan says its $1 trillion in US Treasuries is among tools for trade talks
Japan's huge $1 trillion-plus in U.S. Treasury holdings are among the tools available for Tokyo to use in trade negotiations with the United States, Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday.
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Naomi Rovnick @naomirovnick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Bit of a wake-up call for investors getting excited about Brexit being annulled at the UK-EU summit.
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