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07.30.2021

Amazon shares slumped in after-hours trading after the ecommerce giant missed Wall Street’s revenue targets, Robinhood shares stumbled out of the gate on Thursday, and China’s securities regulator has sought to ease concerns among international investors and banks. Plus, the ...

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07.30.2021 Amazon misses revenue targets in latest quarter Amazon shares slumped in after-hours trading after the ecommerce giant missed Wall Street’s revenue targets, Robinhood shares stumbled out of the gate on Thursday, and China’s securities regulator has sought to ease concerns among international investors and banks. Plus, the ...
07.29.2021 Fed signals taper decision closer, India’s tech IPO boom The Federal Reserve signalled it was moving closer to the moment when it will withdraw its support for the US economic recovery by tapering the central bank’s asset purchases, and the international lawyer Philippe Sands explains why he wants to ...
07.28.2021 Investors are spooked by China’s regulatory crackdowns Apple’s profit nearly doubled in the latest quarter as iPhone sales surged, and a former oil trader at Glencore has pleaded guilty in the US over his part in a scheme to bribe government officials in Nigeria. Plus, the FT’s ...
07.27.2021 The $30bn insurance broker deal that never came to be The UK government will consider loosening travel restrictions for travellers from the EU and the US, Intel will change the way it names its most advanced technology and Japanese athletes are raking in the golds at the Tokyo Olympics. Plus, ...
07.26.2021 The stock winners and losers half way through the year The international community is responding to the military’s protest crackdown in a variety of ways, and a look at why Nasdaq is separating its existing marketplace for private company shares into a new unit. Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie ...
07.23.2021 Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic episode 3, our FT audio deep dive into how AI is gaining a new edge in markets. If you enjoyed this episode, click here to subscribe to Tech Tonic. From picking ...
07.22.2021 US housing prices spark officials’ concern Washington and Berlin have reached a deal to resolve their longstanding dispute over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and Brussels has insisted it will not renegotiate the EU’s Brexit deal with the UK after London inflamed tensions by launching a ...
07.21.2021 Netflix gambles on gaming and podcasting Netflix gained 1.5m subscribers in the second quarter but lost 430,000 subscribers in the US and Canada, and UBS has launched a portfolio that invests solely in women-led hedge funds. Plus, the FT’s metals and mining correspondent, Henry Sanderson, talks ...
07.20.2021 US businesses in Hong Kong between a rock and a hard place Fears over the coronavirus on Monday contributed to European stocks’ worst session of 2021 Description: The threat of the Delta coronavirus variant hit global equity markets on Monday, and the online brokerage Robinhood is seeking a valuation of up to ...
07.19.2021 The search for a Covid supershot Opec and its allies have reached a deal to raise oil production in response to soaring prices, and China just launched the world’s largest carbon trading market. Plus, the FT’s global health editor, Sarah Neville, reports on scientists’ pursuit of ...
07.16.2021 Pilita Clark’s picks for summer reading about the environment US retail banks cut their branch networks and trimmed headcount in the first half of the year, and Brussels' historic attempt to tackle climate change faces a wall of opposition from governments in the bloc. Plus, the FT’s business columnist, ...
07.15.2021 Artist Damien Hirst issues his own ‘Currency’ The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, sought to ease concerns in Congress about the Federal Reserve’s response to surging inflation, the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse last week has plunged the poorest nation in the Americas deeper ...
07.14.2021 The index of everything Visa and Mastercard have left open key gateways between Binance and the financial system despite rising regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency, the pace of US consumer price increases accelerated unexpectedly in June. Plus, the FT’s global finance correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth, ...
07.13.2021 The European Central Bank focuses on climate change David Cameron was paid a salary of more than $1m by Greensill Capital, the finance company whose dramatic collapse exposed the former UK prime minister’s extensive lobbying efforts, and US banks will face tough questions about the prospects for their ...
07.12.2021 EU’s Andreas Schwab responds to White House criticism of EU tech regulation The rapid spread of the Delta coronavirus variant is causing concern about Europe’s economic recovery, and the number of start-ups valued above $1bn grew rapidly in the second quarter. Plus, the FT’s EU correspondent, Javier Espinoza, interviews the influential European ...
07.09.2021 Martin Wolf's summer reading list The UK’s advertising watchdog says it will clamp down on misleading marketing for crypto investments, and stock markets dropped on Thursday on rising concerns about prospects for the global economy. Plus, the FT’s chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, picks his ...
07.08.2021 A wave of private equity buyouts in the UK prompts concern Former president Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, as well as their respective chief executives, in lawsuits alleging “unlawful censorship” of Americans, the new Delta variant of coronavirus is driving up infection rates in countries across the ...
07.07.2021 What did Didi’s bankers know before the IPO? Didi lost a fifth of its market value after Chinese regulators announced an investigation into the ride-hailing app that last week raised more than $4bn in a New York IPO, the Opec impasse highlights growing tensions between Saudi Arabia and ...
07.06.2021 China’s widening tech crackdown KKR is expanding its operations to target more takeovers in the UK, ransomware hackers hit more than 1,000 companies in what appears to be one of the largest supply chain attacks to date, and oil prices jumped to the highest ...
07.05.2021 Introducing Tech Tonic: Trust me, I’m a robot As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic, our FT audio deep dive into the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. If you enjoyed this episode, click here to subscribe to Tech Tonic. Tech Tonic S2 E2: Trust me, ...
07.02.2021 What the Apple Daily closure means for the free press in Hong Kong The world’s leading economies have signed up to a plan that looks to force multinational companies to pay a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent, economists believe that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by the ...
07.01.2021 How English Channel ports avoided a Brexit meltdown Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time high, and the dominant Chinese ride-hailing company, Didi Chuxing, became the largest Chinese company since Alibaba ...
06.30.2021 Inside the secretive private equity firm behind the £6.8bn Asda buyout Today the UK will set out a plan for a simpler, more “nimble” post-Brexit system of state subsidies, and the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi is anticipating a wave of infrastructure spending as it bets on the US market to drive its ...
06.29.2021 The frontrunner to replace Angela Merkel talks the CDU and Germany’s economy A US judge has dismissed two antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, investors are reassessing their conviction in the reflation trade that has captivated Wall Street this year after a hawkish tilt by the US central bank inflicted losses on some fund ...
06.28.2021 The Amazon wage effect The UK’s financial watchdog has ordered crypto exchange Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain, and Denmark’s media industry is pioneering a new bargaining tactic to try and make Google and Facebook pay for news. Plus, the FT’s Andrew ...
06.25.2021 Biden strikes infrastructure deal, Bitcoin’s plunge US President Joe Biden has secured a deal on an infrastructure package worth about $1tn to spend on upgrading roads, bridges and broadband networks over the next eight years, and the US Federal Reserve loosened restrictions on dividends and buybacks ...
06.24.2021 Meme ‘stonks’ and the market Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/eb36b605-47d9-465a-91f8-d47a4af45fae Tech groups in Taiwan are accused of locking up migrant workers as coronavirus hits the sector, and the rapid rise in prices for raw materials has reversed a decades-long decline in ...
06.23.2021 Why Instagram is getting filtered out House prices have set records in the US and parts of Europe, and the artificial intelligence-based drug-discovery platform Insilico has raised more than $255m from investors. Plus, the deputy head of the FT’s Lex column, Elaine Moore, explains why Instagram ...
06.22.2021 US student athletes’ Supreme Court victory The head of the US Food and Drug Administration is under fire after approving a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, a Covid outbreak at a Chinese port has further disrupted global shipping, and the Tokyo Olympics will have limited spectators when the ...
06.21.2021 How artificial intelligence is reshaping the world Reflation trade has been pummelled after the Federal Reserve unexpectedly signalled a shift in its stance on inflation, and, European Central Bank executive Fabio Panetta says the introduction of a digital euro would boost consumers’ privacy. Plus, the FT’s innovation ...
06.18.2021 Black Americans’ unease with official embrace of Juneteenth The premium above super-safe US Treasuries that investors demand to buy risky corporate debt has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade, and tensions between Hong Kong and Taiwan threaten one of the region’s most important trade ...
06.17.2021 Federal Reserve signals first rate rise in 2023 Federal Reserve officials expect to start raising US interest rates in 2023, Toshiba’s latest corporate crisis is a scandal over efforts to thwart activist shareholders, and the appointment of 32-year-old Big Tech critic, Lina Khan, as chair of the US ...
06.16.2021 Web founder Tim Berners-Lee auctions off original source code The Tokyo Olympic Games will need a public bailout of about $800m if spectators are banned, and the end of the interminable EU and US struggle over aircraft subsidies marks a major truce in what seemed an intractable trade conflict. ...
06.15.2021 When Biden meets Putin The world’s longest undersea electric cable, between the UK and Norway, is set to be switched on this week, the US Federal Reserve could begin discussions this week about shrinking its $120bn monthly asset purchase scheme, and Nato leaders issue ...
06.14.2021 China’s proliferating smart city technology Israel’s parliament has voted in a new government, ending rightwing stalwart and five-time premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year grip on power, South Korean shipbuilders and sea freight companies will seek to raise billions of dollars via stock market listings in the ...
06.11.2021 Inflation rises but worries fade, global taxation deal Leaders of the G7 economies convening in the UK will announce a pledge to provide 1bn coronavirus doses to poorer countries as part of plan to “vaccinate the world” by the end of 2022, US government bonds shrug off leap ...
06.10.2021 The true cost of zero commission trading Today’s report on US consumer prices is expected to show that prices further accelerated in May, US president Joe Biden will use this week’s G7 summit to encourage allies to join Washington’s tougher stance towards Beijing, and Olympic sponsors worry ...
06.09.2021 The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet broke Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul the international tax system will face a difficult passage through the US Congress as Republicans threaten to vote down a prospective deal, and millions of internet users lost access to major sites yesterday due to ...
06.08.2021 Abu Dhabi’s creative pivot away from oil US officials say they have recovered $2.3m worth of ransom payments made to hackers who shut down the Colonial pipeline last month, investors pile into Biogen after the US Food and Drug Administration approves the company’s Alzheimer’s treatment, and Mexico’s ...
06.07.2021 The potential disruption of decentralised finance One of the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturers warns the global chip shortage could last until mid-2022, the G7 advanced economies have struck what they have termed a “historic agreement” on taxing multinationals, and China is taking measures to cool ...
06.04.2021 Are we in a new era of inflation? The Biden administration is banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese defence and surveillance technology companies, and US job creation is expected to have accelerated sharply in May which could signal an easing of labour shortages. Plus, the FT’s ...
06.03.2021 AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka shakes up sports media A wave of high-profile ransomware assaults over the past two months has convulsed the insurance market, US cinema chain AMC is offering popcorn to its retail investor base and its share price surged so fast trading was briefly halted, and ...
06.02.2021 Djibouti is trying to become the Singapore of Africa Former Apollo Global Management chief executive, Leon Black, has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that he raped and harassed a young Russian model, Opec and its allies caused oil markets to jump by sticking with their plan to only ...
06.01.2021 How Covid-19 finally caught up with Taiwan The surge in pet ownership during the pandemic has helped propel the group behind pet insurer Bought By Many to a valuation of more than $2bn, and a director at the company behind the video game Final Fantasy says 5G ...
05.31.2021 US regulation on cryptocurrencies could be coming American retailers are rushing to secure inventory ahead of the year end holiday season, US financial authorities are preparing to take a more active role in regulating the $1.5tn cryptocurrency market, and Russia released $500m in credit to Belarus as ...
05.28.2021 European stocks are getting their moment in the sun The market for special purpose acquisition companies has become an unexpected casualty of the Archegos Capital Management scandal, and the activist investors who won a stunning proxy battle against ExxonMobil this week said the supermajor would need to cut oil ...
05.27.2021 Big oil companies face backlash on both sides of the Atlantic Tesla is set to pay for chips in advance to overcome the global chip shortage, and Amazon locks in its $8.45bn acquisition of MGM. Plus, the FT’s US energy editor, Derek Brower, explains what a court case against Royal Dutch ...
05.26.2021 Can oil dependent countries adjust as the world shifts from fossil fuels? England’s National Health Service is preparing to scrape the medical histories of 55m patients into a database it will share with third parties, and dozens of American companies that suspended political contributions after the US Capitol attack are sitting on ...
05.25.2021 Can economic reform create a more level playing field for Black Americans? Deutsche Bank is relocating 100 bankers from London to offices in the EU and Asia as Germany’s largest lender accelerates a corporate restructuring following Brexit, and France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, is caught between financial prudence and political reality as the ...
05.24.2021 Epic vs Apple legal battle wraps up Today is the final day of the courtroom battle between Apple and Fortnite developer Epic games, which has accused Apple of abusing its position by forcing developers to distribute apps exclusively through the App Store. ExxonMobil faces a pivotal moment ...

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Amazon misses revenue targets in latest quarter

Fed signals taper decision closer, India’s tech IPO boom

Investors are spooked by China’s regulatory crackdowns

The $30bn insurance broker deal that never came to be

The stock winners and losers half way through the year

Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant

US housing prices spark officials’ concern

Netflix gambles on gaming and podcasting

US businesses in Hong Kong between a rock and a hard place

The search for a Covid supershot

Pilita Clark’s picks for summer reading about the environment

Artist Damien Hirst issues his own ‘Currency’

The index of everything

The European Central Bank focuses on climate change

EU’s Andreas Schwab responds to White House criticism of EU tech regulation

Martin Wolf's summer reading list

A wave of private equity buyouts in the UK prompts concern

What did Didi’s bankers know before the IPO?

China’s widening tech crackdown

Introducing Tech Tonic: Trust me, I’m a robot

What the Apple Daily closure means for the free press in Hong Kong

How English Channel ports avoided a Brexit meltdown

Inside the secretive private equity firm behind the £6.8bn Asda buyout

The frontrunner to replace Angela Merkel talks the CDU and Germany’s economy

The Amazon wage effect

Biden strikes infrastructure deal, Bitcoin’s plunge

Meme ‘stonks’ and the market

Why Instagram is getting filtered out

US student athletes’ Supreme Court victory

How artificial intelligence is reshaping the world

Black Americans’ unease with official embrace of Juneteenth

Federal Reserve signals first rate rise in 2023

Web founder Tim Berners-Lee auctions off original source code

When Biden meets Putin

China’s proliferating smart city technology

Inflation rises but worries fade, global taxation deal

The true cost of zero commission trading

The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet broke

Abu Dhabi’s creative pivot away from oil

The potential disruption of decentralised finance

Are we in a new era of inflation?

AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka shakes up sports media

Djibouti is trying to become the Singapore of Africa

How Covid-19 finally caught up with Taiwan

US regulation on cryptocurrencies could be coming

European stocks are getting their moment in the sun

Big oil companies face backlash on both sides of the Atlantic

Can oil dependent countries adjust as the world shifts from fossil fuels?

Can economic reform create a more level playing field for Black Americans?

Epic vs Apple legal battle wraps up

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