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FT News Briefing
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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The US has $13bn in Venezuelan oil money. Where is it?
Ukraine has a new commander-in-chief after days of protests, and FT calculations show the US has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan...
UK chancellor John Healey inherits tricky finances
The US has said it will hit Canada with tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of goods, Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls...
Andy Burnham’s first day
Andy Burnham enters No 10 today as prime minister, the US continued trading fire with Iran over the weekend, and Morgan Stanley has become Wall Street...
The Bethlehem Project: American identity after 250 years
The US celebrated its 250th anniversary this month during a very politically divided era. The FT’s Sonja Hutson went to a block party on Bethlehem, Pe...
Andy Burnham ghosts the UK business community
Netflix’s shares fell more than 8 per cent on Thursday despite as-expected earnings after the streaming giant forecast its worst revenue growth in thr...
Is China’s economic slowdown here to stay?
Energy companies going public are raising money at their fastest pace this century and China’s growth rate is at its lowest in decades, according to t...
The EU’s push to deregulate banks
British teenagers face a midnight curfew on social media platforms, US inflation dipped in June and Wall Street’s top banks brought in $19.3bn in reve...
Dubai wants to bypass Strait of Hormuz
The United Arab Emirates is trying to build a port that will bypass the Strait of Hormuz, and American small-cap companies are soaring after years of...
Citigroup’s ruthless remake
Wall Street banks are set to report their biggest haul from investment banking fees in four and a half years, while Citigroup boss Jane Fraser has rut...
Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers
Introducing Rewiring Sport from Tech Tonic. For the next episodes in this season go to the Tech Tonic feed.
For decades, sportspeople have been...
World Cup stirs up colonial past
OpenAI and Google are selling their advanced AI models to Chinese tech giants blacklisted by the Pentagon, and South Korea's SK Hynix is listing in th...
The cost of a broken ceasefire
The US struck Iran for the second night in a row, and the IMF warned that renewed conflict in the Middle East would drive up global inflation. Plus, U...
Marine Le Pen’s risky comeback
US President Donald Trump threatened to remove all American troops from Europe and is reviving his calls to take over Greenland, French far-right lead...
The Big Four’s problems Down Under
Greek shipping companies have made at least $3.8bn transporting Russian oil over the past three years, Turkey wants its booming defence sector to arm...
London’s push for AI sovereignty
The tech industry is having a renaissance in London. It's home to the main foreign outposts for giants such as Google and Meta, as well as their well-...
Germany’s twin crises: football and the economy
The US economy fell short of Wall Street expectations by adding only 57,000 jobs in June, South Koreans are pouring AI stock windfalls into an overhea...
UBS bets on the US
OpenAI has discussed giving a 5 per cent stake to the US government, UBS will start trialling everyday banking services for its American employees wit...
Why Indonesians are souring on Prabowo
Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte told the FT that Europe’s rearmament drive was sustaining 195,000 US defence jobs through $300bn in arms orders, and...
US Supreme Court blocks firing of Fed governor
The US Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, and investors are pivoting from the Magnificent Se...
AI wakes up the sleepy US power sector
The AI boom is fuelling a record surge in dealmaking in the US power and utility industry, and UK prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham will on Monda...
The Bethlehem Project: Steel’s legacy looms large
Bethlehem Steel was the lifeblood of Pennsylvanian town's economy, and a major contributor to American manufacturing during the 20th century. But when...
Jamie Dimon succession race narrows
The race to succeed JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon just got tighter, and the investment chief at insurance group Allianz is warning that t...
European defence stocks face uncertainty
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of obtaining ‘illicit’ access to Claude, and concern is brewing over KNDS’s upcoming initial public offering after Germany s...
Venezuela faces world’s largest debt restructuring
Venezuela is set to take on the largest sovereign debt restructuring in history. Plus, chip stocks led a sell-off on Wall Street, and Nvidia’s AI chip...
What’s next for the UK after Starmer?
Keir Starmer has resigned as British prime minister, private equity executives are borrowing against their future share of profits, and former US Fede...
Starmer on brink of quitting as UK prime minister
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be on his way out of Westminster, and the US and Iran held high-stakes talks in Switzerland to officially end the...
A complicated World Cup for Iran’s diaspora
Labour’s Andy Burnham has won the crucial Makerfield by-election in the UK, a resurgence in the dollar is reversing bets on the currencies of big emer...
Federal Reserve gears up for change
The Federal Reserve has dropped its bias towards lowering rates in the central bank’s first meeting chaired by Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump sai...
Why Elizabeth Warren is worried about SpaceX
US Senator Elizabeth Warren discusses SpaceX’s initial public offering and what she sees as its potential risk to investors. Plus, traders are betting...
Extended version: Why Elizabeth Warren is worried about SpaceX
In our extended interview, US Senator Elizabeth Warren discusses SpaceX’s initial public offering and what she sees as its potential risk to investors...
Investors celebrate US-Iran deal
Global equities rallied and oil prices fell after an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and hedge funds are betting against the debt and equity...
US, Iran agree ceasefire deal as Trump heads to G7 summit
The leaders of the US and Iran will sign an agreement on Friday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and the annual G7 summit kicks off today. SpaceX’s blo...
Political Fix: Makerfield or bust: Burnham goes for broke
With a week to go until Makerfield heads to the polls in what may turn out to be the most consequential by-election in British history, host Lucy Fish...
World Cup ticket prices are a red card for fans
SpaceX has raised $75bn in a record-breaking initial public offering, and the European Central Bank became the first central bank in the G7 to increas...
Can a correction fix Australia’s housing market?
France and Germany are discussing proposals for a radical overhaul of the EU’s 15-year-old diplomatic service, and the most recent US inflation report...
SpaceX shoots for the moon with $1.78tn IPO
The US has launched new strikes on Iran, Ireland’s burning through its corporate tax bonanza, and the European Central Bank is trying to rein in finte...
Israel’s war strategy strains relations with US
OpenAI filed to go public, Wall Street stocks rebounded on Monday, and top BP investors and former executives are concerned the UK oil major may lose...
China’s President Xi visits North Korea to talk nuclear programme
Iran and Israel trade fire testing a two-month ceasefire, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang for his first trip to North Korea in s...
Can a Mexican cartel stronghold host the World Cup?
SpaceX will go public next week with the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, and India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party is challen...
Why foreign investors love Boston
Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund is swapping foreign CEOs for local ones and Reed Hastings officially steps down from the board of Netflix. Plus, FT-Nikkei...