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Business sends Biden a mess...

01.21.2021

Company leaders have warned they will fight Biden Administration moves to raise corporate taxes and tighten regulation, and earnings reports show that big US banks had a strong end to 2020 thanks to trading. Plus, the FT’s Javier Espinoza continues ...

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01.21.2021 Business sends Biden a message, Vestager warns against patchwork tech regulation across Europe Company leaders have warned they will fight Biden Administration moves to raise corporate taxes and tighten regulation, and earnings reports show that big US banks had a strong end to 2020 thanks to trading. Plus, the FT’s Javier Espinoza continues ...
01.20.2021 Biden inauguration, Yellen urges Congress to ‘act big’ on stimulus, top EU official on tech regulation goals Joe Biden faces a long list of challenges after he is sworn in as the 46th US president today, Mr Biden’s nominee to serve as Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, told Congress to “go big” on stimulus during her Senate confirmation ...
01.19.2021 China-Europe shipping costs, Navalny jailed, Brookfield chief says real estate is undervalued The cost of shipping goods from China to Europe has more than tripled in the past eight weeks as the pandemic disrupts global trade, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been sent to prison just a day after returning to ...
01.18.2021 Pompeo’s policy blitz, Merkel’s heir apparent, tech boom reshapes cities Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to Washington to safeguard the capital for the inauguration of Joe Biden. The president-elect is already planning which executive orders he will sign, but there is still time for President Trump’s secretary ...
01.15.2021 Biden’s economic rescue plan, US banks report earnings, and the election for Merkel’s successor Joe Biden plans to ask Congress for a $1.9tn economic rescue package, Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell assures markets that asset purchases will continue, four big US banks report quarterly earnings, and far-right groups find alternative internet platforms to rally ...
01.14.2021 US House impeaches Trump again, Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping, NYC cuts ties with the Trump Organization Donald Trump has become the first US president in history to be impeached twice, New York City cuts business ties with the Trump Organization, and the City of London has a post-pandemic recovery plan. Plus, the FT’s Beijing bureau chief, ...
01.13.2021 WhatsApp battles privacy concerns, China tech worker concerns, Microsoft Teams Facebook-owned WhatsApp is scrambling to stave off privacy concerns following a recent update to its terms of service; greenhouse gas emissions in the US rose less in 2020 than in any year since the second world war; China’s fast-growing tech ...
01.12.2021 US businesses pull political donations, SolarWinds hack developments, Turkey’s quest for power U-S corporations are reviewing their political donations after the attack on the Capitol building, and research has found the huge global cyber espionage campaign discovered last month was carried out using tools similar to those developed by known Russian hacking ...
01.11.2021 Big Tech blocks Trump, urban renter exodus worries some MBS investors, CES goes virtual Technology companies are blocking President Donald Trump from their platforms, renters fleeing U-S cities are straining the market for mortgage-backed securities, and Europe tries to enforce its investment deal with China. Plus, the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off, virtually. Twitter ...
01.08.2021 Trump concedes election, stock markets ignore political chaos, Boeing’s 737 Max settlement President Trump concedes power for the first time and calls for an orderly transition: the FT’s US managing editor Peter Spiegel looks at how Joe Biden can unite a divided nation; global markets have continued rising despite the chaos in ...
01.07.2021 How a mob of Trump supporters interrupted the transfer of power Congressional leaders reconvened on Wednesday night to certify Joe Biden’s victory in November’s presidential election, defying pro-Trump rioters who attempted to scupper the process by storming the Capitol earlier in the day. The FT’s US managing editor, Peter Spiegel, reports ...
01.06.2021 Saudi Arabia’s oil cut pledge, Qatar and Saudi Arabia end dispute, businesses tied to rebelling Republicans Saudi Arabia pledged to cut an extra 1m barrels a day of oil output in February and March, and also has agreed to end its dispute with Qatar. Plus, the FT’s US business editor, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, explains why businesses are ...
01.05.2021 Covid-19 shakes US equities, OECD warns against post-pandemic austerity US equities had their worst day since October as spiking coronavirus cases and lockdowns shook investors, nearly €6bn of EU share dealing shifted away from London in the first trading day after Brexit, and China’s currency has rallied to its ...
01.04.2021 Business after Brexit, extended lockdowns in Europe, Bitcoin’s rise Businesses face a wave of new bureaucracy and checks at ports now that the UK is officially outside of the EU’s single market and customs union, European countries debate more restrictions aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus, and law ...
12.24.2020 Brexit watch, China-Australia tensions, 2020 corporate winners and losers Britain and the EU were finalising a historic post-Brexit agreement on Wednesday night. Plus, Beijing’s market regulator has announced an antitrust investigation into Alibaba, China’s ban on Australian coal exports is hurting its companies, and the FT’s US business editor, ...
12.23.2020 France reopens border with UK, DoJ sues Walmart, an investigation into Pornhub’s secretive owner France is set to reopen its borders with the UK to truck drivers who test negative for Covid-19, Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen aim for a Brexit trade deal by tonight, the US government sues ...
12.22.2020 Investors unsettled by new coronavirus strain, UK coronavirus strain explained, SoftBank launches Spac Global stock markets slipped and the price of oil declined on fears over the new strain of coronavirus sweeping through parts of Britain. The FT’s science editor, Clive Cookson, explains what scientists know about the strain and how it will ...
12.21.2020 EU travel bans, US stimulus, the City after Brexit Several EU countries have banned travel from the UK as scientists identify a new strain of Covid that is 70 percent more transmissable, in the US, lawmakers reached a deal on Sunday night over a new round of stimulus, and ...
12.18.2020 Google hit with another antitrust case, Brexit fears lead to stockpiling, Fed stress tests Dozens of states and territories have launched the first US antitrust challenge to Google’s core search engine, and a surge of stockpiling by UK companies before the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1 has triggered road congestion ...
12.17.2020 Fed to extend debt purchases, US small businesses struggle, Robinhood hit with legal complaint The US central bank says it will keep buying at least $120bn of debt a month until “substantial further progress has been made” in the recovery, US regulators have hit Luckin Coffee with a $180m penalty in an accounting fraud ...
12.16.2020 Spanish companies vie for EU recovery aid, UK nuclear plans Spanish blue-chips have positioned themselves for tens of billions of euros in EU coronavirus aid, the UK is drawing up plans to turn London into a rival to Singapore as a hub for shipping companies, and online brokers are scrambling ...
12.15.2020 SolarWinds software hijacked, Electoral College confirms Biden, Federal Reserve meeting preview Presidential electors confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US election, and the Federal Reserve is poised to issue new guidance extending its emergency bond-buying programme. Plus, the FT’s Hannah Murphy explains what the US is doing in ...
12.14.2020 Brexit talks get reenergized, US Covid-19 vaccine rollout, eurozone banks’ dividends US doctors could administer the first authorised coronavirus shot as soon as today, an EY anti-fraud team warned in 2018 that “red-flag indicators” at Wirecard pointed to potential accounting manipulation, and Europe’s top financial regulators are set to approve lender ...
12.11.2020 Johnson says prepare for no-deal Brexit, Airbnb IPO, EU’s threat to Big Tech Boris Johnson has warned Britain to prepare for a no-deal Brexit, and Airbnb shares more than doubled on their first day of trading on Thursday. Plus, the FT’s Brussels correspondent, Javier Espinoza, explains why the EU is giving Big Tech ...
12.10.2020 Deadline set for Brexit talks, Facebook hit with antitrust lawsuits, DoorDash floats Boris Johnson and the EU have set a Sunday deadline for a “firm decision” on the fate of their future-relationship negotiations, the US Federal Trade Commission and 46 states have brought antitrust cases against Facebook, and DoorDash reached a market ...
12.09.2020 Shell’s clean energy departures, Starbucks' bullish goals, US anti-money laundering overhaul Starbucks chief executive Kevin Johnson says the company will continue to grow despite the pandemic, Congress looks to approve the first overhaul of US anti-money laundering laws in decades, and Japan has launched a stimulus package to help speed up ...
12.08.2020 Johnson and Von der Leyen to meet on Brexit, Uber abandons plans for its own self-driving car, China’s overseas lending Boris Johnson is to travel to Brussels for make-or-break talks on a UK-EU trade deal, Uber will swap its self-driving car operations for a minority stake in Aurora, and China has drastically curtailed the overseas lending programme of its two ...
12.07.2020 Brexit trade talks on a knife-edge, Brussels urged to heed climate science, Covid vaccines in India Britain’s trade talks with the EU were on “a knife-edge” on Sunday, Brussels has been urged to stick to climate science when drawing up rules on sustainable finance, and doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University ...
12.04.2020 Brussels’s EU budget warning, Macron complicates Brexit deal, the ‘everything’ market rally EU budget commissioner Johannes Hanes has warned Poland and Hungary that Brussels could cut them out of its recovery fund, British officials accused France of making new Brexit demands at the eleventh hour on Thursday, and Boeing clinched its first ...
12.03.2020 Democrats support US stimulus plan, China invests in US tech, reaction to UK vaccine approval Top Democrats have expressed support for a $908bn stimulus plan offered by a bipartisan group of US senators, the UK has become the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine, and Chinese state-backed funds are still scouring the US for ...
12.02.2020 Airbnb IPO pricing, EU squeezes UK in Brexit talks, Brazil's economy during the pandemic Airbnb disclosed on Tuesday that it could raise as much as $2.5bn in its initial public offering, and Brussels is still holding back on granting Britain a whole collection of Brexit rights and regulatory waivers. Plus, the FT’s Latin America ...
12.01.2020 Understanding eurozone inflation, Zoom sales up, Mnuchin and Powell testify before US Congress The cost of many popular goods and services in the eurozone is rising far faster than the bloc’s overall depressed level of inflation, the video conferencing company Zoom continued to ride the boom in working and learning from home, and ...
11.30.2020 EU pitches post-Trump alliance with US, Covid-19 vaccine rollout, Lam’s cash problem The EU will call on the US to seize a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to forge a new global alliance, the first coronavirus vaccine is on track for international deployment within weeks, and Hong Kong’s leader has said she is being forced ...
11.27.2020 Is AI finally closing in on human intelligence? The company OpenAI has developed an extremely powerful machine-learning system that can rapidly generate text with minimal human input. The system is known as GPT-3 and it does everything from crafting an email to writing advanced fiction. However, the FT’s ...
11.26.2020 Brexit financial services woes, Salesforce eyes Slack, Facebook’s ad troubles Europe’s financial sector has reached “peak uncertainty” as regulators and banks rush to stave off the harshest effects of Brexit, cloud software company Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack, and Facebook allowed several thousand adverts and posts that violated ...
11.25.2020 Markets rise on White House transition, France taxes US tech giants, bank dividends US stocks surged to new highs on Tuesday, alongside global equities, as the path for a smooth transition of power in the US cleared, French tax authorities have begun demanding millions of euros in extra tax from US tech giants, ...
11.24.2020 Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine US president-elect Joe Biden is poised to choose former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary, Peru joins a select group of countries that has issued century bonds, and the number of US air travellers has ticked up ...
11.23.2020 Europe eases lockdowns for holidays, G20 on Covid-19 vaccines, China’s crackdown on misconduct European policymakers are preparing to relax Covid-19 lockdowns and “save Christmas”, G20 leaders pledged to “spare no effort” to ensure global access to Covid-19 vaccines, and Beijing has warned it will show “zero tolerance” for financial misconduct after several high-profile ...
11.20.2020 WHO cautions against remdesivir, wildfires and wine, Venezuelan oil as a stranded asset The World Health Organization has recommended that doctors do not prescribe Gilead's remdesivir to patients in hospital with coronavirus, US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has decided against extending several of the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending facilities, and online wine retailer, ...
11.19.2020 EU auditor: Brussels too slow to tame Big Tech, FAA clears Boeing 737 Max, Johnson’s green economy A new report from the EU’s external auditor has found Brussels failed to tame Big Tech because it moved too slowly, the US Federal Aviation Administration issues an order on Wednesday allowing Boeing’s 737 Max to fly again, and Wall ...
11.18.2020 G20 nears funding boost for low-income countries, Amazon online pharmacy, FSB report Saudi Arabia’s finance minister says the world’s richest countries are close to unlocking additional IMF funds for low-income nations, Amazon has launched an online delivery service offering big discounts for prescription medicine in the US, and Unilever is aiming to ...
11.17.2020 Biden’s coronavirus warning, Airbnb readies for IPO, Saudi Aramco bonds US president-elect Joe Biden has warned that the country’s ability to handle Covid-19 could be hampered if Donald Trump does not allow a smooth transition of power, AirBnB published the prospectus for its long-awaited stock market listing on Monday, and ...
11.16.2020 UK’s weak household spending, Asia-Pacific trade deal, Biden’s Brexit impact A Financial Times analysis has found the UK’s weakness in international economic league tables during the coronavirus crisis reflects stretched household finances and potentially wasteful public spending, leaders from 15 Asia-Pacific countries have signed one of the biggest trade deals ...
11.13.2020 Palantir sales growth cheers Wall Street, Poland threatens EU budget, Denmark mink culling Data analytics company, Palantir, beat Wall Street forecasts in its first quarterly earnings since going public, the US Senate is preparing to vote on Judy Shelton, Donald Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve board, and Poland’s prime minister warns that ...
11.12.2020 Key aide to Boris Johnson quits, ECB set to expand help, TikTok deadline, Turkish lira Boris Johnson’s director of communications resigned on Wednesday night following a bitter Downing Street power struggle, the European Central Bank will keep financing costs exceptionally favourable in the eurozone until the economy recovers from the pandemic, and TikTok wrestles with ...
11.11.2020 Trump’s resistance, Lyft weighs delivery business, EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges Republicans have grown more assertive in giving cover to Donald Trump’s false claims that the US presidential election was stolen from him, Lyft has said it was in the “early days” of building a delivery business to take on Uber ...
11.10.2020 Covid vaccine lifts stocks, Nikola’s legal bills pile up, India takes aim at Google A breakthrough in the race to find a vaccine for Covid-19 fuelled a broad global equity rally on Monday. The FT’s Joe Miller explains what this means for managing the pandemic. Plus, India’s competition watchdog has ordered an in-depth investigation ...
11.09.2020 Biden looks to unite Democrats, future of UK-US trade, Westfield threatens tenants President-elect Joe Biden will face a power struggle between liberal and progressive Democrats, and how will a Biden administration handle a trade deal between the US and the UK? The FT’s Sebastian Payne and Aime Williams explain how the internal ...
11.06.2020 Biden edges towards victory, Bank of England stimulus, Uber earnings miss Joe Biden edged closer to a presidential victory on Thursday night while Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the Democrats were trying to “steal” the election. Plus, the Federal Reserve kept monetary policy steady, the Bank of England took more ...
11.05.2020 Biden holds lead over Trump, US leaves Paris climate agreement Joe Biden won Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday in two critical victories that boosted his chances of winning the presidential election while the Trump campaign launched lawsuits to delay vote counting. Meanwhile, investors are now changing course after Democrats missed ...

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Business sends Biden a message, Vestager warns against patchwork tech regulation across Europe

Biden inauguration, Yellen urges Congress to ‘act big’ on stimulus, top EU official on tech regulation goals

China-Europe shipping costs, Navalny jailed, Brookfield chief says real estate is undervalued

Pompeo’s policy blitz, Merkel’s heir apparent, tech boom reshapes cities

Biden’s economic rescue plan, US banks report earnings, and the election for Merkel’s successor

US House impeaches Trump again, Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping, NYC cuts ties with the Trump Organization

WhatsApp battles privacy concerns, China tech worker concerns, Microsoft Teams

US businesses pull political donations, SolarWinds hack developments, Turkey’s quest for power

Big Tech blocks Trump, urban renter exodus worries some MBS investors, CES goes virtual

Trump concedes election, stock markets ignore political chaos, Boeing’s 737 Max settlement

How a mob of Trump supporters interrupted the transfer of power

Saudi Arabia’s oil cut pledge, Qatar and Saudi Arabia end dispute, businesses tied to rebelling Republicans

Covid-19 shakes US equities, OECD warns against post-pandemic austerity

Business after Brexit, extended lockdowns in Europe, Bitcoin’s rise

Brexit watch, China-Australia tensions, 2020 corporate winners and losers

France reopens border with UK, DoJ sues Walmart, an investigation into Pornhub’s secretive owner

Investors unsettled by new coronavirus strain, UK coronavirus strain explained, SoftBank launches Spac

EU travel bans, US stimulus, the City after Brexit

Google hit with another antitrust case, Brexit fears lead to stockpiling, Fed stress tests

Fed to extend debt purchases, US small businesses struggle, Robinhood hit with legal complaint

Spanish companies vie for EU recovery aid, UK nuclear plans

SolarWinds software hijacked, Electoral College confirms Biden, Federal Reserve meeting preview

Brexit talks get reenergized, US Covid-19 vaccine rollout, eurozone banks’ dividends

Johnson says prepare for no-deal Brexit, Airbnb IPO, EU’s threat to Big Tech

Deadline set for Brexit talks, Facebook hit with antitrust lawsuits, DoorDash floats

Shell’s clean energy departures, Starbucks' bullish goals, US anti-money laundering overhaul

Johnson and Von der Leyen to meet on Brexit, Uber abandons plans for its own self-driving car, China’s overseas lending

Brexit trade talks on a knife-edge, Brussels urged to heed climate science, Covid vaccines in India

Brussels’s EU budget warning, Macron complicates Brexit deal, the ‘everything’ market rally

Democrats support US stimulus plan, China invests in US tech, reaction to UK vaccine approval

Airbnb IPO pricing, EU squeezes UK in Brexit talks, Brazil's economy during the pandemic

Understanding eurozone inflation, Zoom sales up, Mnuchin and Powell testify before US Congress

EU pitches post-Trump alliance with US, Covid-19 vaccine rollout, Lam’s cash problem

Is AI finally closing in on human intelligence?

Brexit financial services woes, Salesforce eyes Slack, Facebook’s ad troubles

Markets rise on White House transition, France taxes US tech giants, bank dividends

Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

Europe eases lockdowns for holidays, G20 on Covid-19 vaccines, China’s crackdown on misconduct

WHO cautions against remdesivir, wildfires and wine, Venezuelan oil as a stranded asset

EU auditor: Brussels too slow to tame Big Tech, FAA clears Boeing 737 Max, Johnson’s green economy

G20 nears funding boost for low-income countries, Amazon online pharmacy, FSB report

Biden’s coronavirus warning, Airbnb readies for IPO, Saudi Aramco bonds

UK’s weak household spending, Asia-Pacific trade deal, Biden’s Brexit impact

Palantir sales growth cheers Wall Street, Poland threatens EU budget, Denmark mink culling

Key aide to Boris Johnson quits, ECB set to expand help, TikTok deadline, Turkish lira

Trump’s resistance, Lyft weighs delivery business, EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges

Covid vaccine lifts stocks, Nikola’s legal bills pile up, India takes aim at Google

Biden looks to unite Democrats, future of UK-US trade, Westfield threatens tenants

Biden edges towards victory, Bank of England stimulus, Uber earnings miss

Biden holds lead over Trump, US leaves Paris climate agreement

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