the UK Budget, Tesla Split & Adobe Earnings - what you need to know!

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?