In this week’s podcast, Michael Brown (Senior Market Strategist from Pepperstone) and Michael Hewson return to look at more record highs for US markets after this week’s central bank rate decisions from the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, as well as looking at the prospects for the UK economy after another set of poor government borrowing numbers.

They also look at this week’s numbers from Next and what they add to the discussion around UK PLC, as well as looking ahead to Kingfisher and JD Sports H1 results