Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/411bb70a-8fe9-41ef-bd58-e4798b12c2a2Vladimir Putin hinted that Russia’s state-backed monopoly pipeline exporter, Gazprom, may increase supplies to help Europe avoid a full-blown energy crisis, and US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm has raised the prospect of releasing crude oil from the government’s strategic petroleum reserve as the Biden administration confronts a politically perilous surge in the price of gasoline; General Motors plans to double its revenues by 2030 as the company steers towards electric vehicles, and the latest data leak detailing the financial affairs of the global elite makes clear how much progress has been made since the world began clamping down in earnest in 2008 — and how much remains to be done.Gas markets whipsaw after Russia offers to stabilise energy priceshttps://www.ft.com/content/e06c3b5d-153d-4c86-8c49-0d5447d58e76General Motors aims to double sales by 2030 with boost from electric vehicleshttps://www.ft.com/content/d02e8cc3-29a1-4634-bfb6-b658b1b4f4a4From Panama to the Pandora papers: what’s changed in offshore taxhttps://www.ft.com/content/1fe7a5a1-7515-4226-8906-b9c1eaecc455JAB seeks to raise $5bn fund to invest in petcare https://www.ft.com/content/93a23966-1b26-4e7b-aa0c-9ff2654e9990The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Gavin Kallmann, Michael Bruning, and Persis Love. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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