Evergrande’s troubles loom over global markets

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/dd3aef66-5189-4b85-873a-e82c80be3c2d

Global financial markets are jittery about the possible default of indebted Chinese property developer Evergrande but the FT’s markets editor Katie Martin explains why it is unlikely to be another Lehman Brothers; foreign investors, especially from China and Japan, have become major buyers of US Treasuries and could prop up the market if the Fed withdraws; and Coinbase backed down from launching a new lending product after US regulators threatened to sue. 

Wall Street stocks sell off as Evergrande crisis intensifies https://www.ft.com/content/952923b7-f421-407e-b14a-ad2ff190a134

Foreign investors help prop up Treasury market as Fed considers retreat  https://www.ft.com/content/47551bfb-8ca3-4e73-b34b-0ad19905ae15

Shell agrees $9.5bn sale of Permian Basin oil business to ConocoPhillips https://www.ft.com/content/33e48318-91ab-47e4-88f3-72986b0a85f6

Coinbase abandons lending product after SEC pushback https://www.ft.com/content/bd09f8bf-e65b-4870-affe-55b5346af3e1

Rusal strikes deal to supply Budweiser with ultra low-carbon cans https://www.ft.com/content/ff76ebe5-ca61-417c-b191-1a2c152a935e

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