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FT News Briefing

Financial Times

A rundown of the most important global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Available every weekday morning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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8:44

Germany’s unusually unpredictable election

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/24

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/74160c71-c5b0-435c-9c09-1c5e9572bb1cGerman voters head to the poll this weekend and the FT’s Berlin correspondent, Erika Solomon, previews this momentous election. Turkey’s central bank unexpectedly cut its benchmark interest rate on Thursday despite accelerating inflation that had already turned borrowing costs negative in real terms. A German foreign policy advisor lashed out at the US about the new Aukus security pact. And US

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10:36

Federal Reserve eyes 2022 rate rise

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/23

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/a3b42914-2e0e-4246-bc45-1ea9b19b690bThe Federal Reserve has given its strongest signal yet that it will start tapering its bond buying stimulus programme this year and more central bank officials see a first interest rate rise in 2022; Japan’s SoftBank has followed Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala in backing a new $2.5bn private equity fund set up by former US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin just

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10:00

Gulf states caught between US and China

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/22

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/bde35a2f-ae3f-4fc5-920f-a6bca45d9eb3Poland and Hungary could lose billions of euros in EU regional aid as the European Commission prepares to wield powers linking the funds to human rights standards in member states, and the ride-hailing group Uber says it is on course to report its first-ever profitable quarter, on an adjusted basis, after more than a decade of burning through billions of dollars in cash, and Gulf states are

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9:53

Evergrande’s troubles loom over global markets

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/21

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/dd3aef66-5189-4b85-873a-e82c80be3c2dGlobal 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

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10:57

China’s digital dictatorship

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/20

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/efcae358-e439-4135-9600-55b23dcd7dc8Australia’s nuclear submarine deal with the US and UK is set to provide a political boost for Scott Morrison’s conservative government, and UK business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is due to meet energy suppliers on Monday amid fears that dozens of companies could go bust in the coming weeks due to record high gas and electricity prices, and Beijing has pushed through reams of regulations

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30:34

FT Weekend: The stories we tell, with Elif Shafak

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/18

Introducing our new FT Weekend podcast. New episodes every Saturday. We will soon stop publishing FT Weekend on this feed, so you if want to keep listening, subscribe now before you forget! Search FT Weekend in your podcast app of choice.In this episode, Life & Arts columnist Enuma Okoro explores what our cities tell us about ourselves. Then Lilah speaks with Elif Shafak—the most widely read woman novelist in Turkey—about writing in countries without freedom of speech, and her new book, The

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9:12

Laos welcomes cryptocurrency miners

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/17

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/8e3784f8-5605-40aa-a8b5-3d0e5bdae9a9An unpublished internal model seen by the FT shows that the European Central Bank expects to hit its elusive 2 per cent inflation target by 2025, and Myanmar’s shadow government is fighting back against the military junta. Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie Martin, explains why Laos is allowing cryptocurrency mining.Unpublished ECB inflation estimate raises prospect of earlier rate

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9:14

Alexa, pass the scalpel?

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/16

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/91b4abd2-1ef7-4069-ac25-a4759a2ddfb8Washington has launched a security partnership with London and Canberra which will support Australia’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and strengthen the allies’ ability to counter China, and Canada holds an election next week with prime minister Justin Trudeau facing unexpected competition, and Amazon plans to become just as ubiquitous in healthcare as it is in other markets

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9:12

China deals a blow to Blackstone’s ambitions

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/15

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/24c2b733-9dca-4dcf-81d2-ca90583a3ac9US consumer prices in August rose at a more moderate pace in a sign that inflationary pressures associated with the end of Covid-19 lockdowns are easing, and bank executives say consumer spending is outpacing pre-pandemic levels as shoppers shrug off the Delta variant, and Blackstone abandoned a large deal in China after Beijing’s antitrust regulators refused to sign off on it within the agreed

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9:34

Diesel vs Doughnuts

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/14

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/63d65f6a-045d-4da8-b170-c30642cea5ccChinese police are using a new anti-fraud app installed on more than 200m mobile phones to question people who have viewed overseas financial news sites, and Brazil’s first openly gay state governor enters the country’s race for president. Plus, the FT’s Houston correspondent, Justin Jacobs, explains why new biofuels refineries are creating headaches for the food industry.China uses app to

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9:58

Hedge funds flock to Silicon Valley

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/13

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/40cef59a-441b-4b97-bea8-7a3ec838bc4bBeijing wants to break up Alipay and create a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans business, Norway’s voters will weigh in on the country’s petroleum production in what’s being called a “climate election,” and a new analysis found that Ireland is failing to keep US Big Tech companies in check. Plus, the FT’s Laurence Fletcher explains why hedge funds are muscling into Silicon

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28:23

Introducing the FT Weekend podcast: 9/11 and the...

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/11

Twenty years after the Twin Towers were brought down, FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos explores where 9/11 sits in our memories. The FT’s New York correspondent Joshua Chaffin introduces us to billionaire developer Larry Silverstein, who bought the World Trade Center in July of 2001 and had to rebuild on the site of a tragedy. How do spaces change in meaning over time? The FT’s former Kabul correspondent Jon Boone introduces us to the “New Afghanistan” generation, what they were promised,

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10:10

The SEC vs Coinbase

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/10

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/0b052bc2-c481-49c7-a645-c83e90f45ff1A poll shows leading economists believe the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in 2022 due to inflationary pressures, the ECB says it will move to “a moderately lower pace” in its €1.85tn pandemic emergency purchase programme, and one of China’s largest property developers, Evergrande, faces the risk of default. Plus, the FT’s US Legal and Enforcement Correspondent, Stefania Palma,

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9:51

The world’s biggest direct carbon capture plant

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/09

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/7344543b-aefa-4715-8494-7c92e1e531f2A court heard opening arguments in the case against the founder of the failed blood-testing technology start-up Theranos, Janet Yellen has warned that the US Treasury could run out of cash next month, and PayPal has acquired the Tokyo-based buy now, pay later company, Paidy. Plus, the FT’s environment and clean energy correspondent, Leslie Hook, explains how the world’s largest CO2 direct

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10:43

Is Xi Jinping moving China into a new era of Maoism?

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/08

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/7a545b87-55eb-4dbd-b9a0-c80def4bdcf8Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Philip Dormitzer denied that the company should have developed a more potent Covid-19 vaccine, and the Taliban has announced Afghanistan’s first government since the US left the country, and James Bullard, president of the St Louis Fed pushed back on concerns that the US labour market recovery is faltering. Plus, the FT’s Beijing bureau chief, Tom Mitchell,

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9:44

Why developing countries are so keen on cryptocurrencies

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/07

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/768cdb61-a131-42de-b8d6-42c3c757cb82Prime minister Boris Johnson will announce a tax rise of more than £10bn a year today, and the military junta that overthrew Guinea’s president is urging mining companies to keep operating. Plus, the FT’s emerging markets correspondent, Jonathan Wheatley, explains why developing countries have provided fertile ground for cryptocurrencies to take hold.Johnson set to unveil £10bn tax rise to fund

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10:35

Bridgepoint’s hidden executive pay

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/06

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/6b286858-b05a-4211-8e04-315b4e8bac38A frantic summer of dealmaking has put 2021 on track to break records, and Japan’s future is uncertain after prime minister Yoshihide Suga abruptlyannounced his departure. Plus, the FT’s private capital correspondent explains how a prominent British private equity firm went public this summer but has kept its executive pay opaqueGlobal dealmaking set to break records after frenzied

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26:47

Introducing FT Weekend: The good life, with chefs...

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/04

In this first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, host Lilah Raptopoulos talks to Eleven Madison Park’s Daniel Humm and Chez Panisse’s legendary Alice Waters to discover how the world’s top chefs are finding purpose beyond their restaurants. Humm created a buzz in May when he announced that his world-famous restaurant would be going entirely plant-based. Has that risk paid off? And what does it mean to do good as a chef?Plus: the FT’s design critic Edwin Heathcote gives us a tour of the world’s

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9:58

US corporate debt binge, FT Weekend podcast preview

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/03

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/0b603fa8-7afc-46f3-bae6-46b89a0def8fBankers and investors are bracing for a bumper month of debt issuance in the US, and Germany’s Dax is welcoming 10 new companies to its index. Plus, the FT’s Lilah Raptopoulos talks about the launch of her new show, the FT Weekend podcast.Banks and investors gear up for US corporate debt bingehttps://www.ft.com/content/dff0ebdf-1d64-4e9a-9261-6957455d856dGermany’s Dax undergoes makeover as it

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8:38

Banking on cannabis

FT News Briefing ·

2021/09/02

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/385a236d-c829-47e8-b3a3-c0c3ef2d5387YouTube has netted 50m paying subscribers for its music streaming services, and the dearth of truckers has become so severe in the US that some fleet owners are petitioning officials to let more foreign operators into the country. Plus, the FT’s US banking editor Josh Franklin explains that top American banks have avoided cannabis companies so a niche finance sector has sprouted up to service

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