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06.09.2023 Rishi Sunak comes to Washington Tesla and General Motors have struck a deal to let the Detroit carmaker’s customers plug in at 12,000 of the Texas company’s roadside chargers, and Turkey eased its long-running battle to defend the lira and the currency plunged. Plus, US ...
06.08.2023 Introducing Unhedged We want to tell about a new podcast coming soon! On Unhedged, Ethan Wu, Katie Martin and other markets nerds at the Financial Times explain the big ideas behind what’s happening in finance right now. Unhedged launches June 13, you ...
06.08.2023 The housing supply problem: Part 3 The US, Taiwan and Japan will share real-time data from naval reconnaissance drones, India’s deadliest train accident happened despite years of investment, and an architect-developer duo in Baltimore, Maryland, are converting an historic office building into residential housing. But how ...
06.07.2023 Sequoia Capital to spin off its China business The UK Cabinet Office will tell central government departments to remove all surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies from sensitive sites; and the venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is splitting its China business into a separate entity amid rising tensions ...
06.06.2023 SEC sues world’s largest crypto exchange US securities regulators yesterday sued the world’s largest crypto exchange and accused Binance of a host of violations, sliding German butter prices are spreading hope of lower food inflation, and global carmakers have been caught off guard by the speed ...
06.05.2023 A daring high-wire act: Inside the Asda buyout Saudi Arabia is cutting oil production, Turkey has a new finance minister and Apple is unveiling a mixed-reality headset today. Plus, the FT’s Kaye Wiggins explains how Asda has been able to take on enormous debt and whether its luck ...
06.04.2023 FTNB Live! FT Weekend Fest in Washington DC A special live recording of the FT News Briefing at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington, DC. Our terrific colleagues played a friendly game of news trivia, and the FT’s Ethan Wu gave us a preview of his new podcast ...
06.03.2023 Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: the ‘democratic recession’ In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute ...
06.02.2023 What did the fight over the US debt ceiling cost? Binance has lost a quarter of its market share, the US government is on the verge of passing a deal to raise the debt ceiling, and Eurozone inflation has fallen more than economists expected to hit its lowest level since ...
06.01.2023 The housing supply problem: Part 2 The US House of Representatives voted to raise the debt ceiling last night. Plus, in part two of our housing series, the FT’s Persis Love explores a niche solution to skyrocketing rents in the UK, called homesharing. Mentioned in this ...
05.31.2023 Wall Street gives crypto a chance China has called for “stable and constructive” ties with the US in a meeting with Elon Musk and some Wall Street companies are building their own digital markets trading platforms to compete with crypto companies. Plus, the FT’s Nicholas Megaw ...
05.30.2023 Ageing populations hit government credit ratings Democrats and Republicans are confident they can pass a deal to avert a US debt default, the lira slides after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is re-elected, and ageing populations are causing government credit ratings to take a hit. Mentioned ...
05.29.2023 Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism In the first of this four-part series, the renowned FT columnist and economist Martin Wolf tells the FT’s executive opinion editor Jonathan Derbyshire why he fears the marriage of liberal economics and democracy may be facing its toughest test in ...
05.26.2023 Nvidia closes in on the trillion dollar club More large US companies are taking shelter in bankruptcy court, Nvidia is on course to become the first chipmaker to be valued at more than $1tn, and Turkish voters go back to the polls to pick their next president. Mentioned ...
05.25.2023 The housing supply problem: Part I UK gilt yields hit levels not seen since last year’s “mini” Budget crisis, and Australia’s government has referred a PwC tax leak scandal to the country’s federal police. Plus, in part one of our series on housing, the FT’s Sonja ...
05.24.2023 A new gold rush A double-digit drop in German exports to China has rattled Europe’s biggest economy and the UK is set to lose a high-profile solar power investment. Plus, the FT’s Harry Dempsey explains why investors and central banks are piling into the ...
05.23.2023 Adani tries to win back investors China’s semiconductor industry fears Japanese curbs on exports of crucial chipmaking equipment are stricter than US limits, Meta has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by the EU for privacy violations, and the Adani Group is trying to woo investors ...
05.22.2023 China bans Micron’s products from key infrastructure Florida governor Ron DeSantis is expected to launch his campaign for US president this week, China has banned operators of key infrastructure from buying chips from US chipmaker Micron Technology, and Morgan Stanley is searching for a new CEO after ...
05.19.2023 TikTok spied on our reporter The US Supreme Court rules to protect big tech companies from being liable for users’ posts, and G7 countries are preparing new sanctions against Russia. Plus FT technology reporter Cristina Criddle learned that TikTok spied on her. She talks about ...
05.18.2023 Will the digital euro come online? Ukraine’s allies worry that support from the US will lose steam during next year’s election cycle, and Japan’s stocks are reaching new highs. Plus, the European Central Bank is big on a digital currency. Europeans? Not so much. Mentioned in ...
05.17.2023 US sues to block drug merger The Federal Trade Commission sued to block the biotechnology company Amgen’s $28.3bn deal to acquire Horizon Therapeutics, Italy is struggling to spend €200bn in EU Covid recovery funds, and Ukraine said it repelled an unprecedented barrage of Russian missiles over ...
05.16.2023 Ford to scale back China investments Ford plans to reduce its future investment in China, and prominent investors are upset with the record number of share buybacks. Plus, the FT’s Eleni Varvitsioti explains that Greece’s economic recovery has come at a cost to some of its ...
05.15.2023 Turkey’s tight election Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu are locked in a tight battle for the presidency as the election count suggested rising odds of an unprecedented second round, Argentina today will announce a new round of emergency government ...
05.12.2023 Markets shrug off potential US debt default Elon Musk says he’s hired a new CEO for Twitter, and Turkey heads to the polls this weekend for what analysts say is the biggest presidential election there in decades. Plus, the FT’s Katie Martin and Jennifer Hughes explain what ...
05.11.2023 China makes a show of corporate raiding Disney sharply reduced its losses from video streaming in the second quarter, US inflation dipped to its lowest level since April 2021, and the FT’s Joe Leahy explains China’s crackdown on foreign business due diligence firms, including Capvision, Bain and ...
05.10.2023 Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky takes on Twitter Donald Trump has been found liable for the sexual abuse of a journalist in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, Ireland plans to set up a sovereign wealth fund with its bumper budget surpluses, and China’s foreign minister has ...
05.09.2023 Is commercial property the ‘next shoe to drop’? The Bank of England is set to raise interest rates to their highest level since 2008 this week, and investors are worried about the impact of rising rates on US commercial real estate. Plus, the FT’s James Kynge explains the ...
05.08.2023 US debt ceiling deadline looms The G7-led price cap on Russian oil exports has forced the Kremlin to raise the tax burden on producers, and education companies are struggling after a warning over ChatGPT. Plus, the FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief Lauren Fedor explains what’s ...
05.05.2023 Another rough day for US regional banks Apple said on Thursday that revenues shrank for a second straight quarter, the European Central Bank raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, and US regional banks suffered severe stock declines. Mentioned in this podcast: ECB raises ...
05.04.2023 Fed hints it might pause rate hikes The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, Russia accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a late-night drone attack on the Kremlin, and local elections in the UK ...
05.03.2023 US regional bank stocks still under pressure The rescue of First Republic this week has failed to stop a sell-off in regional bank shares, Apple experienced a big boost in demand in India driven by a surge in refurbished iPhone sales, and European banks are hoping to ...
05.02.2023 Jamie Dimon’s big win Chinese initial public offerings have raised more than five times as much money as those in the US this year, and Germany’s lawmakers are set to pass immigration reforms to address a worsening skills shortage. Plus, the FT’s Brooke Masters ...
05.01.2023 First Republic in limbo At least three large banks have submitted bids to buy all or parts of First Republic, the US is urging South Korea not to fill China’s semiconductor shortfalls if Beijing bans Micron chips, and Iran’s statistics authorities have kept inflation ...
04.28.2023 Big Tech props up US stocks Russia’s stock market has climbed to its highest level in more than a year, European commercial real estate deals hit an 11-year-low last quarter, and Big Tech continues to prop up the US stock market. Mentioned in this podcast: Russian ...
04.27.2023 The Magic Kingdom goes to war Walt Disney sued Florida governor Ron DeSantis over the state’s ‘retaliation’ for the company’s stance on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, UK regulators have blocked Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and the FT’s Harriet Agnew explains why conservative UK pension ...
04.26.2023 Sudanese refugees pour into Chad Google’s advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2023 nearly matched numbers from a year ago, tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed into neighbouring Chad, and First Republic Bank saw its shares plummet nearly 50 per cent yesterday. ...
04.25.2023 UBS’s Credit Suisse challenge US President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for re-election, UBS could lose customers as a result of its takeover of Credit Suisse, and the French luxury group LVMH became the first European company to ...
04.24.2023 America's dollar stores get a makeover Santander is trying to poach some of Credit Suisse’s most senior investment bankers, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak looks to establish calm after deputy prime minister Domic Raab resigned last week, American dollar stores have to adjust for the age ...
04.22.2023 Introducing Behind the Money: Night School There’s been a lot of big finance and economics news in 2023. Whether it's stories about rising interest rates, tech industry layoffs or bank runs, it can almost feel like you need an MBA just to make sense of it ...
04.21.2023 Credit Suisse bondholders sue Regional banks across the US have largely stopped the massive outflow of deposits after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, investors representing $4.5bn of wiped-out Credit Suisse bonds have filed a lawsuit against Switzerland’s banking regulator, and the FT’s Brooke ...
04.20.2023 Ukraine pleads for air defence missiles Natural gas consumption in the EU fell almost 18 per cent in the past eight months, Ukraine will plead for urgent shipments of surface-to-air missiles at a meeting of its western allies on Friday, and Germany looks ready to legalise ...
04.19.2023 The TikTok divide Rupert Murdoch’s Fox has agreed to pay $787.5mn to settle a landmark defamation case, Bank of America emerged from banking turmoil with higher first-quarter profits, China’s latest GDP numbers show the economy is rebounding from one of its worst years ...
04.18.2023 A power struggle in Sudan Apple and Goldman Sachs launched a new savings account with an interest rate more than 10 times the national average, a Chinese genetics company said it would press ahead with US expansion as it tries to distance itself from its ...
04.17.2023 Turkey’s voters lose faith in Erdogan Companies have committed more than $200bn to US manufacturing projects since Congress passed sweeping subsidies last year, one of Charles Schwab’s largest investors sold its entire $1.4bn stake in the brokerage giant during last month’s banking turmoil, Turkish voters head ...
04.15.2023 The quantum revolution: The way the world is In the final episode of this Tech Tonic series, we hear how radical quantum ideas are reshaping our fundamental understanding of the universe. Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger tells the FT’s Madhumita Murgia about the future of teleportation and the ...
04.14.2023 Open AI’s ‘red team’ BP has started pumping crude through a new $9bn offshore platform as it slows its transition out of fossil fuels, global equities have recovered from the banking crisis but risks remain, and experts are sounding the alarm over the latest ...
04.13.2023 Emerging markets debt crunch Donald Trump is suing his former lawyer Michael Cohen, an uptick in core prices in the US is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to push ahead with another interest rate rise in May, and a study shows 91 of ...
04.12.2023 EY: Breaking up is hard to do EY has scrapped plans to break up its audit and consulting businesses, the IMF has warned the global economy could be in for a “hard landing”, and the European aviation industry estimates it will cost more than €800bn to reach ...
04.11.2023 Rise of the Russian informer Companies on the S&P 500 index are expected to report a 6.8 per cent decline in first-quarter earnings, Eli Lilly’s CEO told the Financial Times that Europe may miss out on new drugs if it pushes ahead with legislation reducing ...
04.10.2023 The rising influence of Mrs Assad China’s financial sector is reeling from a series of new corruption probes and the FT’s Middle East correspondent, Raya Jalabi, explains how Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad gained so much power and influence. Mentioned in this podcast: China’s financial sector ...

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FT News Briefing episodes:

Rishi Sunak comes to Washington

Introducing Unhedged

The housing supply problem: Part 3

Sequoia Capital to spin off its China business

SEC sues world’s largest crypto exchange

A daring high-wire act: Inside the Asda buyout

FTNB Live! FT Weekend Fest in Washington DC

Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: the ‘democratic recession’

What did the fight over the US debt ceiling cost?

The housing supply problem: Part 2

Wall Street gives crypto a chance

Ageing populations hit government credit ratings

Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism

Nvidia closes in on the trillion dollar club

The housing supply problem: Part I

A new gold rush

Adani tries to win back investors

China bans Micron’s products from key infrastructure

TikTok spied on our reporter

Will the digital euro come online?

US sues to block drug merger

Ford to scale back China investments

Turkey’s tight election

Markets shrug off potential US debt default

China makes a show of corporate raiding

Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky takes on Twitter

Is commercial property the ‘next shoe to drop’?

US debt ceiling deadline looms

Another rough day for US regional banks

Fed hints it might pause rate hikes

US regional bank stocks still under pressure

Jamie Dimon’s big win

First Republic in limbo

Big Tech props up US stocks

The Magic Kingdom goes to war

Sudanese refugees pour into Chad

UBS’s Credit Suisse challenge

America's dollar stores get a makeover

Introducing Behind the Money: Night School

Credit Suisse bondholders sue

Ukraine pleads for air defence missiles

The TikTok divide

A power struggle in Sudan

Turkey’s voters lose faith in Erdogan

The quantum revolution: The way the world is

Open AI’s ‘red team’

Emerging markets debt crunch

EY: Breaking up is hard to do

Rise of the Russian informer

The rising influence of Mrs Assad