We've got a special one this week, the first ever PlayingFTSE awards with categories like, Best Bank, Best Place For Your Emergency Fund and Best Up & Comer!  First though, we have a game. Steve W has been looking very hard at Stanley Druckenmiller's 13F and has built a game about his holdings! Its a tough one!  

Darting onwards we're heading into the first category - Best Savings Account. With this we're thinking specifically about the best place for your emergency fund - there was a clear winner until last month and now it's all up in the air!  

Next up is Best Bank. Both Steve's are Monzo shareholders so there's a clear winner here....and it isn't Monzo.  

Having recently incorporated PlayingFTSE into a business we're very much on top of the small business accounts available at the moment, the two Steves breakdown the offerings from the NeoBanks and pick their favourite!  

So we move onto the ISA's, LISA's and JISA's the Steves pick through each offering discussing merits and opportunities to expand! LISA's is an extremely light category, expect a different winner next year!  

We finish with the most promising up and comer, this section is dedicated to apps that don't win an award this time but are looking very promising for the future - there's a couple of favourites in the list and we're struggling to pick a winner!

This week we answer the second part of Kevin's question regarding our best and worst performing stocks - who's 50% down on Teladoc, who's losing their arse on Pinterest, who's lost a bunch on Roku and who bought ASOS at the handles at the top of the slide? Find out on this weeks midweek FTSE!

This week the two Steve's are excited for the new ISA Season, they have four new stocks for you to put on your watchlist! Spoiler - there's two from the UK!  Game this week is a quiz about Disney - a Quiz-ney if you will. Steve W is tasked with answering ten tough questions about the origins of Disney, when they acquired Pixar and how much goodwill they have on their balance sheet!  

Moving swiftly on we're onto stock one. Steve D delves into a little known Irish game developer trading on the AIM. Quickly heading towards a billion euros in revenue, this one is profitable, free cash flow positive and pays a little dividend! Something for everyone!  

Steve W's first one is also on the FTSE. This joinery outfit has some attractive economics, has weathered the pandemic surprisingly well with improving margins, pays a good dividend and is buying back around 5% of its stock this year!  

Switching back to Steve D we're going dating! Steve dives into a US dating conglomerate with it's tendrils in all four corners of the globe. This one is a proven growth story, with attractive margins and a huge dedicated userbase - but there's still risks to consider!  

Lastly Steve W has a beaten down juggernaut, a leader in the advertising industry that seems to jump from problem to scandal - we discuss why we think it's now at the sort of price where the reward is worth the risk and the downside is limited.

This week we answer the first part of Kevin's question regarding our best and worst performing stocks - find out each of our top twos and some honourable mentions along the way!

Which is Steve D more excited about: the UK budget, or the Tesla stock split? Find out in this week's PlayingFTSE!  

No game this week -- there's no time for that. With Chris Hill on the show last week, we've got too much news to catch up on.   

We kick off with the UK budget. Up goes the NI threshold -- what does that mean for people's state pensions? This is something of an important topic for us, since a good part of the reason we're here is that we're all worried about what the state pension will look like by the time we hit retirement age. Here's what we think on the subject.  

Then it's the big one. Tesla has announced that it plans to split its stock in a move that hasn't been seen since... 2020. Steve W isn't impressed, Steve D isn't interested. But Paul thinks there's something hiding beneath the surface. Has he been seeing something that the Steves have been missing?  

Adobe reported its earnings recently. Guidance was weaker than some were expecting and the stock slipped as a result. Chris called this an "uphill" last week and it's a business that we like very much. But do we like it at these prices? And what does the competition look like? This one's in the wheelhouse of Paul and Steve D, find out what they think.  

We finish with news from Steve W on Intel and Nvidia. It's an interesting time for the chip companies at the moment. Intel's attempting to get into manufacturing and Nvidia's CEO has said it would be willing to use Intel's foundries. Looks like a win-win. Nvidia's popular with growth investors and Intel's popular with the value brigade. What does Steve W think?

In this one we go over the key learning s we took from our guest Chris Hill. We reflect on Chris's views on the role luck plays in investing, his stoic view on time horizons and of course why you should definitely buy stocks whilst high!

This week, we’re joined by podcasting superhero Chris Hill! Chris hosts the daily podcasts at the Motley Fool. Chris reached out to us after we were offering an unsolicited review of the Motley Fool’s new podcast format. Trying not to be too starstruck, we made time to have a sit-down and a chat about his investing life, his career at the Motley Fool, and what he thinks about stocks. Well, two of us did, anyway. The third one, well, you be the judge. Anyway, we had an absolute blast, Chris was an absolute gent from start to finish. He's a terrific story-teller with a real depth of wisdom to share. You do NOT want to miss this one.

In this one we take a look at Amazon and Googles recent stock split announcements. We discuss our theories as to why they're doing this and why we don't think Amazons recent buyback announcement is a departure from their growth focused mindset.

The band are back together for this week's show!   

Steve D has this week's game. Paul and Steve W revisit some of their least favourite subjects as we look at how Chamath Palihapitiya's SPACs from before been performing. Most of them are down, two are up -- who will win this time at "U suck at ChaMath II"?   

With Paul back on board, we talk about the economic consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As the UK, US, and Australia have committed to banning imports of oil from Russia, we think about what this means for oil demand in the short term and renewable energy further ahead.   

Next is the latest from China. Chinese stocks (or their ADR counterparts) have been rallying this week on an announcement from the Chinese regulators. What did it say and what does it mean for investors? Steve W leads us into the subject of VIE structures, Chinese regulation, and the risk associated with investing in China.  

Lastly, we're looking at interest rates. As the Bank of England announced an increase in rates to pre-pandemic levels, the FED began increasing rates and reducing its balance sheet. The market took the news well, so what else is coming for the rest of the year?

The Steves discuss their takeaways from the Feroldi interview, take a closer look at the key points and offer their takes on what was we learned from Brian.