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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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Crypto’s 2025 U-turn
The cryptocurrency market is struggling as bitcoin has lost all its gains from this year, and HSBC leaders cannot agree on the bank's next chair of th...
UK bond market wades through Budget uncertainty
Goldman Sachs is on track to notch its best performance in the global deals market in 24 years. Plus, what UK gilt markets are looking for after Frida...
British chemicals empire Ineos feels the squeeze
Oracle’s enormous borrowing to fund a push into artificial intelligence computing has spooked investors, Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s heavily indebted empire,...
Scottish kilts set to enter the bond market
US government shutdown nears an end as House approves funding deal, European carmakers and other industrial companies continue to face “devastating” c...
SoftBank divesting from Nvidia could be good, actually
The International Energy Agency says global oil and gas demand will rise for the next 25 years if the world does not change course; Masayoshi Son’s So...
How the world’s biggest mining project is a win for China
Saudi Aramco is shifting its focus to natural gas, Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1bn over an edit of a speech he gave on Ja...
Senate secures breakthrough on US shutdown
The US Senate takes the first step to ending the government shutdown, and COP30 climate talks kick off in Brazil. Plus, stricter regulation puts the s...
Hungary looks to Trump for sanctions exemption
Tesla investors have overwhelmingly backed Elon Musk’s $1tn pay deal, Hungary’s prime minister travels to Washington to make the case for a Russian oi...
Supreme Court questions emergency Trump tariffs
US Supreme Court justices appeared sceptical of Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs, and Argentine President Javier Milei has rej...
AI bubble worries spread to Asia
US voters issued a rebuke of President Donald Trump, US stocks dropped on Tuesday as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intel...
Pfizer plays hardball in weight-loss drug fight
Palantir lifted its 2025 revenue guidance and Pfizer has filed a second lawsuit against Novo Nordisk and obesity drug start-up Metsera. Plus, OpenAI i...
Trump’s economy on the ballot
The US Supreme Court begins hearing arguments this week for President Trump’s tariff policy. Plus, voters will head to the polls for state races seen...
Will Trump’s progress in Asia last?
Amazon and Apple delivered solid earnings reports, and the FT’s Gideon Rachman explores whether Donald Trump’s foreign policy wins in Asia will hold....
RIP QT
Meta and Microsoft had mixed earnings reports, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and said it would halt quantitative tightening and South Korea h...
OpenAI’s long-awaited restructuring deal
OpenAI said it had completed a long-awaited restructuring, and Tesla’s chair has stepped up her campaign to win shareholder support for Elon Musk’s $1...
Markets surge on Argentine election results
US companies struck more than $80bn worth of deals, Argentina’s currency and government bonds surged after a landslide electoral victory for President...
The stage is set for high-stakes Trump-Xi meeting
US President Donald Trump is in Asia this week ahead of high-stakes trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Plus, the UK chancellor is pushing...
Untold: Toxic Legacy, Ep. 1: Silent Danger
Laura Hughes receives a tip that horses are dropping dead in Wales. As she investigates, she finds decades of academic studies researching the problem...
Trump’s Russian oil sanctions shake energy markets
US President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Russian oil companies shook energy markets on Thursday, and the US president pardoned Binance co-founder Chan...
Sequoia Capital’s free speech debate
Tesla said its quarterly profit fell by more than a quarter, Sequoia Capital’s chief operating officer resigned over comments made by partner Shaun Ma...
South Africans question future of Black empowerment policies
Netflix shares fell as a dispute with Brazilian tax authorities cut into its profits, Unilever said it has delayed the spin-off of its €15bn ice cream...
Japan’s transformational coalition deal
European governments have rallied behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and are rushing to secure a deal on the use of Russia’s frozen assets...
Why Beijing still loves its five-year plans
US President Donald Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart to accept Russia’s war terms during Friday’s volatile White House meeting, and five-year pla...
Matcha mania strains Japan
Shares in US regional banks fell on Thursday after two lenders disclosed that they were exposed to alleged fraud by borrowers, and the UK economy grew...
A financial power grab in Turkey?
Big investors are cutting back their exposure to riskier corporate debt, the IMF doled out some advice to the US and the UK, and China’s economy remai...
Investors turn to private economic data
The leaders of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Citi warned that investor exuberance risked driving financial markets into bubble territory, and US i...
The Netherlands takes over Chinese-owned chipmaker
US stock markets rebounded on Monday, and the Netherlands has taken control of a Chinese-owned semiconductor company. Plus, US President Donald Trump...
Trump ups the trade war ante
US President Donald Trump has threatened new “large scale” export controls on China, and Wall Street’s investment banks just wrapped up a record-break...
Israel approves ceasefire plan
The Israeli government approved the US-brokered deal for a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, the US Treasury has intervened in Argentina’s curren...
Quantitative easing is under the microscope
Donald Trump has said Israel and Hamas have agreed the first step in his plan for a Gaza ceasefire, and Washington wants its companies exempt from EU...
Carmakers are falling back in love with petrol
A UBS fund has 30 per cent of its portfolio tied to the failed First Brands Group, and carmakers across much of the world are scaling back on electric...
OpenAI’s circular deals
EU governments have agreed to limit the travel of Russian diplomats, analysts are worried about a flurry of circular AI deals, and France lost another...
Will Japan’s next PM revive Abenomics?
Israel and Hamas head into crunch-time negotiations in Cairo, and Japan’s prospective new prime minister will have work to do to bring her party back...
Saudi Arabia’s push to liberalise
Description: The US will provide Ukraine with new intelligence, the American company behind Fico homebuyer credit scores is shaking up the mortgage in...
Nigeria’s pivot to solar power
Sales of Chinese electric-car maker BYD fell for the first time in 19 months in September, the US government shutdown is not likely to affect interest...
Spotify has its leadership on shuffle mode 🔀
The US government has shut down after Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a spending deal before the October 1 deadline, and Sir Keir Starmer...
Game on for the biggest leveraged buyout
Elon Musk’s business empire has been hit by a wave of senior departures over the past year, video games maker Electronic Arts is being taken private b...
Washington tangos with another government shutdown
The Trump administration’s financial regulator is preparing to change five decades of corporate reporting practice, and the US government is once agai...
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Ukraine’s new war chest: frozen Russian funds?
Oracle, private equity group Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX will control roughly 45 per cent of TikTok USA, Germany’s chancellor has called for Europ...