Learning path

Understand markets & the news

I want to follow the markets and actually understand the headlines.

Start with the big economic picture — growth, inflation, rates, the cycle — then see how stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities react to it.

1. 1 GDP & economic growth beginner
2. 2 Inflation beginner
3. 3 Interest rates & central banks beginner
4. 4 The business cycle beginner
5. 5 Employment & the labour market beginner
6. 6 Fiscal vs monetary policy beginner
7. 7 How macro moves markets beginner
8. 8 What is a stock? beginner
9. 9 The stock market & how shares trade beginner
10. 10 What moves a stock's price beginner
11. 11 Indices & ETFs beginner
12. 12 What is a bond? beginner
13. 13 The yield curve beginner
14. 14 Why hold bonds? beginner
15. 15 What is foreign exchange? beginner
16. 16 What moves exchange rates beginner
17. 17 What are commodities? beginner
18. 18 Oil & energy beginner
19. 19 What drives commodity prices beginner

Lessons are pulled from across the tracks in a sensible order. You can always jump around in all lessons — this is just a guided route. Education, not financial advice.