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Huawei tries to reinvent itself
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As sanctions derail its traditional business, China’s Huawei is scrambling to reinvent itself by shifting into areas less dependent on foreign chip ...
Inflation, inflation, inflation
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/6cd13eb2-0ab7-40a5-816f-43e963a3ce05The government bond sell-off that began last...
Two Federal Reserve officials step down amid ethics questions
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/1505ec37-b798-4016-8f80-d959bd6eac9cTwo senior Federal Reserve officials whose t...
Wall Street embraces the ‘Forever CEO’
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/c2d3fe11-799d-4f66-be2c-806dda7a9f87At least two Chinese cities are seizing pres...
FT Weekend: How has lockdown changed us? Plus: a night on the Orient Express
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing our new FT Weekend podcast. New episodes every Saturday. This is the last episode of the FT Weekend which will be published in this feed, ...
Germany’s unusually unpredictable election
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Federal Reserve eyes 2022 rate rise
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/a3b42914-2e0e-4246-bc45-1ea9b19b690bThe Federal Reserve has given its strongest ...
Gulf states caught between US and China
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/bde35a2f-ae3f-4fc5-920f-a6bca45d9eb3Poland and Hungary could lose billions of eu...
Evergrande’s troubles loom over global markets
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/dd3aef66-5189-4b85-873a-e82c80be3c2dGlobal financial markets are jittery about t...
China’s digital dictatorship
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/efcae358-e439-4135-9600-55b23dcd7dc8Australia’s nuclear submarine deal with th...
FT Weekend: The stories we tell, with Elif Shafak
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 list...
Laos welcomes cryptocurrency miners
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Alexa, pass the scalpel?
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/91b4abd2-1ef7-4069-ac25-a4759a2ddfb8Washington has launched a security partnersh...
China deals a blow to Blackstone’s ambitions
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Diesel vs Doughnuts
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ap...
Hedge funds flock to Silicon Valley
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Introducing the FT Weekend podcast: 9/11 and the passing of time
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
The SEC vs Coinbase
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/0b052bc2-c481-49c7-a645-c83e90f45ff1A poll shows leading economists believe the ...
The world’s biggest direct carbon capture plant
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Is Xi Jinping moving China into a new era of Maoism?
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/7a545b87-55eb-4dbd-b9a0-c80def4bdcf8Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Philip D...
Why developing countries are so keen on cryptocurrencies
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/768cdb61-a131-42de-b8d6-42c3c757cb82Prime minister Boris Johnson will announce a...
Bridgepoint’s hidden executive pay
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Introducing FT Weekend: The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 legenda...
US corporate debt binge, FT Weekend podcast preview
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/0b603fa8-7afc-46f3-bae6-46b89a0def8fBankers and investors are bracing for a bump...
Banking on cannabis
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/385a236d-c829-47e8-b3a3-c0c3ef2d5387YouTube has netted 50m paying subscribers fo...
Biden defends US pullout of Afghanistan
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/53441ca2-a824-4f2c-8a76-c10ebde4840bBrussels is drafting a proposal for a €600...
The fight between US service staff and QR codes
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/86c5ce53-69cb-4bf2-b79e-7e67f1b71cfaQR codes have replaced service staff in the ...
Trailer: Introducing the FT Weekend podcast
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We'd like to introduce you to our new show: FT Weekend. Turn off your email alerts and settle in. Every Saturday, from September 4, join host Lilah Ra...
How community banks were small business saviours during the pandemic
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/e03bcc3e-c418-47e6-9037-0f0030529af0The US tomorrow will withdraw all of its tro...
Life under the Taliban: ‘Herat is now like a ghost city’
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/3e727154-099c-4af8-b3a0-5aa2742bcdcaUS military officials are blaming Isis for a...
OnlyFans reverses its controversial porn ban
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/a2aabbbe-070f-48f1-92f2-5ed1ec85cf2bTurkey’s military has begun withdrawing it...
Lawsuit seeks accountability for Beirut port blast
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/03108ae2-9645-4849-a165-52eee0272790US President Joe Biden is defying internatio...
G7 tries to salvage Afghanistan crisis
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/f23d324d-b17e-4f6a-bacd-dad8fed54493At an emergency G7 meeting US president Joe ...
Boris Johnson to host Afghanistan crisis talks
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/94500fca-aef3-4ab6-82d5-08005ee49c49UK prime minister Boris Johnson will on Tues...
Auto industry chip shortage worsens
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/243efeb3-032a-4282-b83a-24f566ea1161The chip shortage hobbling the auto industry...
Afghanistan’s ‘dire’ financial outlook
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/b1c4e938-b959-4767-aba9-2aedc1f44005The former head of Afghanistan’s central b...
The Taliban’s first official press conference since taking Kabul
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/9950c2c0-f75c-4098-aa1f-01e3ffc38644In the Islamist group’s first official pre...
How will the Taliban 2.0 rule?
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/76ae831e-7a74-4429-8bbb-2b947a04cb44Biden made his first comments on Afghanistan...
Afghanistan’s President flees his country
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/b1e7f141-e281-4bee-81e3-b11eaf9d767dAfghanistan’s president fled the country a...
Financial technology start-ups in Africa
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/80e6939d-d085-499d-ac9d-3ac6386b69c1Airbnb reported strong quarterly earnings an...
The debt-laden UK high street
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/baa5d27d-d16c-4f47-9902-abb72f02429dA top Federal Reserve official told the FT t...
Philip Morris battles to buy a medical inhaler company
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/b20cdab3-2e47-4bbe-bbff-39c42459d105The rapid pace of US consumer price increase...
US Senate on the cusp of approving Biden’s $1tn infrastructure package
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/7822a4a7-d31a-40ce-8217-ebbafc4acb09Oil prices continue to slide on investor con...
Can science link extreme weather to climate change?
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/65fa9d74-d971-4536-a411-c06d86d8de64FT calculations of 20 Chinese billionaires s...
Robinhood’s wild stock market debut
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/0e09d7d2-95d7-4fa1-80ff-9ff466f3cf6aApple intends to install software on US iPho...
Why China’s youth ‘lie flat’ instead of enduring stress
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/c6ee7948-06e7-4f4c-8940-2f83d85bdf4dThe value of the world’s stock of negative...
PepsiCo’s juicy private equity deal
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/9221dcf1-ef98-4474-9d9f-226f08843bbfSpain has called on the EU to back measures ...
Optimism soars on the airline industry’s recovery
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/219d15f1-b6fa-471c-b0ed-2a2c4163f757Forests in the US that generate the carbon o...
How climate change is steering the future of food
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/97741491-f1aa-4107-a84d-ebd874b1259dHouse prices are increasing in almost every ...
Amazon misses revenue targets in latest quarter
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon shares slumped in after-hours trading after the ecommerce giant missed Wall Street’s revenue targets, Robinhood shares stumbled out of the ga...
Fed signals taper decision closer, India’s tech IPO boom
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve signalled it was moving closer to the moment when it will withdraw its support for the US economic recovery by tapering the centra...
Investors are spooked by China’s regulatory crackdowns
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apple’s profit nearly doubled in the latest quarter as iPhone sales surged, and a former oil trader at Glencore has pleaded guilty in the US over hi...
The $30bn insurance broker deal that never came to be
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK government will consider loosening travel restrictions for travellers from the EU and the US, Intel will change the way it names its most advan...
The stock winners and losers half way through the year
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The international community is responding to the military’s protest crackdown in a variety of ways, and a look at why Nasdaq is separating its exist...
Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic episode 3, our FT audio deep dive into how AI is gaining a new edge in markets. If you enjoyed t...
US housing prices spark officials’ concern
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Washington and Berlin have reached a deal to resolve their longstanding dispute over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and Brussels has insisted it will not...
Netflix gambles on gaming and podcasting
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix gained 1.5m subscribers in the second quarter but lost 430,000 subscribers in the US and Canada, and UBS has launched a portfolio that invests...
US businesses in Hong Kong between a rock and a hard place
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fears over the coronavirus on Monday contributed to European stocks’ worst session of 2021 Description: The threat of the Delta coronavirus var...
The search for a Covid supershot
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Opec and its allies have reached a deal to raise oil production in response to soaring prices, and China just launched the world’s largest carbon tr...
Pilita Clark’s picks for summer reading about the environment
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
US retail banks cut their branch networks and trimmed headcount in the first half of the year, and Brussels' historic attempt to tackle climate change...
Artist Damien Hirst issues his own ‘Currency’
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, sought to ease concerns in Congress about the Federal Reserve’s response to surging inflation, th...
The index of everything
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Visa and Mastercard have left open key gateways between Binance and the financial system despite rising regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency, the...
The European Central Bank focuses on climate change
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Cameron was paid a salary of more than $1m by Greensill Capital, the finance company whose dramatic collapse exposed the former UK prime ministe...
EU’s Andreas Schwab responds to White House criticism of EU tech regulation
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The rapid spread of the Delta coronavirus variant is causing concern about Europe’s economic recovery, and the number of start-ups valued above $1bn...
Martin Wolf's summer reading list
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s advertising watchdog says it will clamp down on misleading marketing for crypto investments, and stock markets dropped on Thursday on risin...
A wave of private equity buyouts in the UK prompts concern
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Former president Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, as well as their respective chief executives, in lawsuits alleging “...
What did Didi’s bankers know before the IPO?
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Didi lost a fifth of its market value after Chinese regulators announced an investigation into the ride-hailing app that last week raised more than $4...
China’s widening tech crackdown
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
KKR is expanding its operations to target more takeovers in the UK, ransomware hackers hit more than 1,000 companies in what appears to be one of...
Introducing Tech Tonic: Trust me, I’m a robot
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic, our FT audio deep dive into the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. If you en...
What the Apple Daily closure means for the free press in Hong Kong
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s leading economies have signed up to a plan that looks to force multinational companies to pay a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 ...
How English Channel ports avoided a Brexit meltdown
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time h...
Inside the secretive private equity firm behind the £6.8bn Asda buyout
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today the UK will set out a plan for a simpler, more “nimble” post-Brexit system of state subsidies, and the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi is anti...
The frontrunner to replace Angela Merkel talks the CDU and Germany’s economy
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A US judge has dismissed two antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, investors are reassessing their conviction in the reflation trade that has captivate...
The Amazon wage effect
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s financial watchdog has ordered crypto exchange Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain, and Denmark’s media industry is pione...
Biden strikes infrastructure deal, Bitcoin’s plunge
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
US President Joe Biden has secured a deal on an infrastructure package worth about $1tn to spend on upgrading roads, bridges and broadband networks ov...
Meme ‘stonks’ and the market
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/eb36b605-47d9-465a-91f8-d47a4af45faeTech groups in Taiwan are accused of locking...
Why Instagram is getting filtered out
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
House prices have set records in the US and parts of Europe, and the artificial intelligence-based drug-discovery platform Insilico has raised more th...
US student athletes’ Supreme Court victory
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration is under fire after approving a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, a Covid outbreak at a Chinese port h...
How artificial intelligence is reshaping the world
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reflation trade has been pummelled after the Federal Reserve unexpectedly signalled a shift in its stance on inflation, and, European Central Bank exe...
Black Americans’ unease with official embrace of Juneteenth
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The premium above super-safe US Treasuries that investors demand to buy risky corporate debt has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade, an...
Federal Reserve signals first rate rise in 2023
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Federal Reserve officials expect to start raising US interest rates in 2023, Toshiba’s latest corporate crisis is a scandal over efforts to thwart a...
Web founder Tim Berners-Lee auctions off original source code
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Tokyo Olympic Games will need a public bailout of about $800m if spectators are banned, and the end of the interminable EU and US struggle over ai...
When Biden meets Putin
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s longest undersea electric cable, between the UK and Norway, is set to be switched on this week, the US Federal Reserve could begin discu...
China’s proliferating smart city technology
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Israel’s parliament has voted in a new government, ending rightwing stalwart and five-time premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year grip on power, Sou...
Inflation rises but worries fade, global taxation deal
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders of the G7 economies convening in the UK will announce a pledge to provide 1bn coronavirus doses to poorer countries as part of plan to “vacc...
The true cost of zero commission trading
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s report on US consumer prices is expected to show that prices further accelerated in May, US president Joe Biden will use this week’s G7 su...
The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet broke
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul the international tax system will face a difficult passage through the US Congress as Republicans threaten to vote down...
Abu Dhabi’s creative pivot away from oil
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
US officials say they have recovered $2.3m worth of ransom payments made to hackers who shut down the Colonial pipeline last month, investors pile int...
The potential disruption of decentralised finance
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturers warns the global chip shortage could last until mid-2022, the G7 advanced economies ha...
Are we in a new era of inflation?
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden administration is banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese defence and surveillance technology companies, and US job creation i...
AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka shakes up sports media
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A wave of high-profile ransomware assaults over the past two months has convulsed the insurance market, US cinema chain AMC is offering popcorn to its...
Djibouti is trying to become the Singapore of Africa
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Former Apollo Global Management chief executive, Leon Black, has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that he raped and harassed a young Russian model, Op...
How Covid-19 finally caught up with Taiwan
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The surge in pet ownership during the pandemic has helped propel the group behind pet insurer Bought By Many to a valuation of more than $2bn, and a d...
US regulation on cryptocurrencies could be coming
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
American retailers are rushing to secure inventory ahead of the year end holiday season, US financial authorities are preparing to take a more active ...
European stocks are getting their moment in the sun
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The market for special purpose acquisition companies has become an unexpected casualty of the Archegos Capital Management scandal, and the activ...
Big oil companies face backlash on both sides of the Atlantic
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla is set to pay for chips in advance to overcome the global chip shortage, and Amazon locks in its $8.45bn acquisition of MGM. Plus, the FT’s US...
Can oil dependent countries adjust as the world shifts from fossil fuels?
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
England’s National Health Service is preparing to scrape the medical histories of 55m patients into a database it will share with third parties, and...
Can economic reform create a more level playing field for Black Americans?
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deutsche Bank is relocating 100 bankers from London to offices in the EU and Asia as Germany’s largest lender accelerates a corporate restructuring ...
Epic vs Apple legal battle wraps up
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today is the final day of the courtroom battle between Apple and Fortnite developer Epic games, which has accused Apple of abusing its position by for...
Quantitative easing and rising stock prices
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire that would end an 11-day conflict that has claimed the lives of at least 230 Palestinians and 12 Israelis....