Tom Sieber is AJ Bell's Content Editor. He was previously the Editor of Shares Magazine. He has been with the business since 2012.
Tom is a regular contributor to the AJ Bell Money & Markets podcast and a stock market analyst for AJ Bell. He has also chaired and presented at various AJ Bell events – both online and in person.
Covering a variety of different sectors including resources and media, he has been a journalist for nearly two decades and has written about investing since 2007. Tom has a degree in History from Bristol University and a post-graduate diploma in Print Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire.
He has an interest in politics and economics that can be traced back to trip to the UN headquarters in New York as a UN Young Ambassador at 16, and is passionate about demystifying the financial markets and providing genuinely useful insights to help people with their investing.
Outside of work, Tom is a keen runner, although his days of completing half marathons and marathons may be behind him! He's also a big cinema fan.
28 February 2025
US markets slump on Nvidia and tariff threatIt was a tough week for US markets and technology stocks in particular as concern about tariffs mounted and Nvidia's latest earnings failed to impress.
Big losses for the Nasdaq Composite put the tech-heavy index in the red for the year, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has a lower weighting towards the sector, traded only modestly...
7 February 2025
Calm returns to US markets after Trump tariff threatThe popular perception among most investors at the start of 2025 was that Donald Trump’s bark was worse than his bite – in other words, some of the more outlandish promises he made on the hustings were unlikely to translate into actual policies.
Three weeks after the inauguration, that assumption has already been tossed out of the window as one...
31 January 2025
Markets recover after DeepSeek jolt as Fed keeps rates on holdThe Nasdaq Composite and benchmark S&P 500 indices were knocked-off course this week by a relatively unknown Chinese AI (artificial intelligence) upstart DeepSeek, which has developed a LLM (Large Language Model) for a fraction of the cost of traditional AI models.
Semiconductor chips stocks and AI-related energy names saw heavy selling as...
24 January 2025
Trump’s $500 billion Stargate AI project sends S&P 500 to new highThe week may have started quietly with markets closed for Martin Luther King Day on Monday (20 January) and the inauguration of President Trump, but the calm didn’t last.
Stocks took off with gains across the board, with all the main indices up around 3% and the S&P 500 notching up a new all-time high.
Markets were buoyed by Trump’s measured...
17 January 2025
Record breaking bank earnings help ease the pressure on US marketsThere’s been a lot of talk about American exceptionalism, and it has undoubtedly helped deliver a strong run for US markets over the past year, but macro data continues to set a tone of confusion. US CPI inflation data over the past week was OK, but core CPI got slightly better, and this discrepancy does little for clarity.
It begs the question...
15 November 2024
All the latest big news from the US marketUS stock markets were a little quieter this week following the election excitement of the prior week with ‘Trump trade’ stocks and sectors giving back some of their gains.
Cautious comments from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell (15 November) on the cadence of further interest rate cuts sent markets lower with the benchmark S&P 500 index off 0.7%...
22 August 2024
The UK investment trusts yielding more than 4.5% (and growing dividends)The Bank of England has made its first cut to interest rates for more than four years, which has a direct impact on the income savers will receive on cash. And the lower-than-expected jump in UK inflation reported on 14 August only boosted market expectations that the Bank of England could deliver another rate cut next month.
As the rate...
