Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
TikTok ecommerce push, Cuba invites private business, a new green world order
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok plans to expand into ecommerce in the US to compete with Facebook, Cuba has announced it will...
Carmakers’ chip woes, UK directors face liability rules, Japan’s job-creating robots
05 Feb 2021
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German carmakers are considering their own semiconductor stockpiles to avoid supply chain troubles, ...
Nvidia-Arm antitrust probes, Australia takes on Google, discount retailers thrive
04 Feb 2021
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The EU and the UK are set to open probes into Nvidia’s $40bn acquisition of chip designer Arm, Mic...
Bezos to step aside, Draghi set for Rome, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest
03 Feb 2021
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Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos will step aside later this year to become executive chairman of th...
US threatens Myanmar sanctions, Robinhood raises $2.4bn, Kuaishou’s IPO
02 Feb 2021
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Joe Biden has threatened to impose sanctions on Myanmar after the military seized power in a coup, a...
Reddit traders eye silver, Republicans float smaller relief bill, Mance talks to Bellingcat founder
01 Feb 2021
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Reddit traders have targeted silver markets after piling into GameStop shares last week, and Republi...
EU vaccine shortage, Reddit traders challenge establishment, North Korea defector
29 Jan 2021
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The EU’s Covid-19 vaccination plan is nearing a crisis point after several regions suspended inocu...
Day traders wreak havoc on hedge fund bets, Wall Street dips, BlackRock’s progress on sustainability
28 Jan 2021
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The Biden administration says it is “monitoring the situation” as shares in companies including ...
EU vaccine export tensions, a serious look at stock prices, India’s farmers
27 Jan 2021
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Facing a shortfall in vaccine supplies and slow pace of vaccinations, the EU is debating how to rest...
Spac mania, Apollo’s Leon Black steps down, what’s fuelling the Russia protests
26 Jan 2021
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Companies have launched a $400bn fundraising blitz in the first three weeks of 2021 as government an...
US takes a hard line on Russia, Congress weighs stimulus, the way forward for Waymo
25 Jan 2021
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The US has signalled a more confrontational stance toward Russia after Moscow cracked down on protes...
Next steps for US returning to the Paris climate accord, ECB bond-buying shift, global art market outlook
22 Jan 2021
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President Joe Biden has moved to have the US rejoin the Paris climate accord, but becoming a leader ...
Business sends Biden a message, Vestager warns against patchwork tech regulation across Europe
21 Jan 2021
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Company leaders have warned they will fight Biden Administration moves to raise corporate taxes and ...
Biden inauguration, Yellen urges Congress to ‘act big’ on stimulus, top EU official on tech regulation goals
20 Jan 2021
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Joe Biden faces a long list of challenges after he is sworn in as the 46th US president today, Mr Bi...
China-Europe shipping costs, Navalny jailed, Brookfield chief says real estate is undervalued
19 Jan 2021
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The cost of shipping goods from China to Europe has more than tripled in the past eight weeks as the...
Pompeo’s policy blitz, Merkel’s heir apparent, tech boom reshapes cities
18 Jan 2021
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Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to Washington to safeguard the capital for the...
Biden’s economic rescue plan, US banks report earnings, and the election for Merkel’s successor
15 Jan 2021
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Joe Biden plans to ask Congress for a $1.9tn economic rescue package, Federal Reserve chairman Jay P...
US House impeaches Trump again, Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping, NYC cuts ties with the Trump Organization
14 Jan 2021
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Donald Trump has become the first US president in history to be impeached twice, New York City cuts ...
WhatsApp battles privacy concerns, China tech worker concerns, Microsoft Teams
13 Jan 2021
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp is scrambling to stave off privacy concerns following a recent update to its...
US businesses pull political donations, SolarWinds hack developments, Turkey’s quest for power
12 Jan 2021
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U-S corporations are reviewing their political donations after the attack on the Capitol building, a...
Big Tech blocks Trump, urban renter exodus worries some MBS investors, CES goes virtual
11 Jan 2021
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Technology companies are blocking President Donald Trump from their platforms, renters fleeing U-S c...
Trump concedes election, stock markets ignore political chaos, Boeing’s 737 Max settlement
08 Jan 2021
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President Trump concedes power for the first time and calls for an orderly transition: the FT’s US...
How a mob of Trump supporters interrupted the transfer of power
07 Jan 2021
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Congressional leaders reconvened on Wednesday night to certify Joe Biden’s victory in November’s...
Saudi Arabia’s oil cut pledge, Qatar and Saudi Arabia end dispute, businesses tied to rebelling Republicans
06 Jan 2021
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Saudi Arabia pledged to cut an extra 1m barrels a day of oil output in February and March, and also ...
Covid-19 shakes US equities, OECD warns against post-pandemic austerity
05 Jan 2021
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US equities had their worst day since October as spiking coronavirus cases and lockdowns shook inves...
Business after Brexit, extended lockdowns in Europe, Bitcoin’s rise
04 Jan 2021
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Businesses face a wave of new bureaucracy and checks at ports now that the UK is officially outside ...
Brexit watch, China-Australia tensions, 2020 corporate winners and losers
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Britain and the EU were finalising a historic post-Brexit agreement on Wednesday night. Plus, ...
France reopens border with UK, DoJ sues Walmart, an investigation into Pornhub’s secretive owner
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
France is set to reopen its borders with the UK to truck drivers who test negative for Covid-19, Bor...
Investors unsettled by new coronavirus strain, UK coronavirus strain explained, SoftBank launches Spac
22 Dec 2020
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Global stock markets slipped and the price of oil declined on fears over the new strain of coronavir...
EU travel bans, US stimulus, the City after Brexit
21 Dec 2020
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Several EU countries have banned travel from the UK as scientists identify a new strain of Covid tha...
Google hit with another antitrust case, Brexit fears lead to stockpiling, Fed stress tests
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dozens of states and territories have launched the first US antitrust challenge to Google’s core s...
Fed to extend debt purchases, US small businesses struggle, Robinhood hit with legal complaint
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The US central bank says it will keep buying at least $120bn of debt a month until “substant...
Spanish companies vie for EU recovery aid, UK nuclear plans
16 Dec 2020
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Spanish blue-chips have positioned themselves for tens of billions of euros in EU coronavirus aid, t...
SolarWinds software hijacked, Electoral College confirms Biden, Federal Reserve meeting preview
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential electors confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US election, and the Federal Res...
Brexit talks get reenergized, US Covid-19 vaccine rollout, eurozone banks’ dividends
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
US doctors could administer the first authorised coronavirus shot as soon as today, an EY anti-fraud...
Johnson says prepare for no-deal Brexit, Airbnb IPO, EU’s threat to Big Tech
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson has warned Britain to prepare for a no-deal Brexit, and Airbnb shares more than double...
Deadline set for Brexit talks, Facebook hit with antitrust lawsuits, DoorDash floats
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson and the EU have set a Sunday deadline for a “firm decision” on the fate of their f...
Shell’s clean energy departures, Starbucks' bullish goals, US anti-money laundering overhaul
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Starbucks chief executive Kevin Johnson says the company will continue to grow despite the pandemic,...
Johnson and Von der Leyen to meet on Brexit, Uber abandons plans for its own self-driving car, China’s overseas lending
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson is to travel to Brussels for make-or-break talks on a UK-EU trade deal, Uber will swap...
Brexit trade talks on a knife-edge, Brussels urged to heed climate science, Covid vaccines in India
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Britain’s trade talks with the EU were on “a knife-edge” on Sunday, Brussels has been urged to...
Brussels’s EU budget warning, Macron complicates Brexit deal, the ‘everything’ market rally
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
EU budget commissioner Johannes Hanes has warned Poland and Hungary that Brussels could cut them out...
Democrats support US stimulus plan, China invests in US tech, reaction to UK vaccine approval
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Top Democrats have expressed support for a $908bn stimulus plan offered by a bipartisan group of US ...
Airbnb IPO pricing, EU squeezes UK in Brexit talks, Brazil's economy during the pandemic
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Airbnb disclosed on Tuesday that it could raise as much as $2.5bn in its initial public offering, an...
Understanding eurozone inflation, Zoom sales up, Mnuchin and Powell testify before US Congress
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The cost of many popular goods and services in the eurozone is rising far faster than the bloc’s o...
EU pitches post-Trump alliance with US, Covid-19 vaccine rollout, Lam’s cash problem
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The EU will call on the US to seize a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to forge a new global a...
Is AI finally closing in on human intelligence?
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The company OpenAI has developed an extremely powerful machine-learning system that can rapidly gene...
Brexit financial services woes, Salesforce eyes Slack, Facebook’s ad troubles
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Europe’s financial sector has reached “peak uncertainty” as regulators and banks rush to stave...
Markets rise on White House transition, France taxes US tech giants, bank dividends
25 Nov 2020
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US stocks surged to new highs on Tuesday, alongside global equities, as the path for a smooth transi...
Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
US president-elect Joe Biden is poised to choose former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as his Tr...
Europe eases lockdowns for holidays, G20 on Covid-19 vaccines, China’s crackdown on misconduct
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
European policymakers are preparing to relax Covid-19 lockdowns and “save Christmas”, G20 leader...
WHO cautions against remdesivir, wildfires and wine, Venezuelan oil as a stranded asset
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The World Health Organization has recommended that doctors do not prescribe Gilead's remdesivir to p...
EU auditor: Brussels too slow to tame Big Tech, FAA clears Boeing 737 Max, Johnson’s green economy
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new report from the EU’s external auditor has found Brussels failed to tame Big Tech because it ...
G20 nears funding boost for low-income countries, Amazon online pharmacy, FSB report
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Saudi Arabia’s finance minister says the world’s richest countries are close to unlocking additi...
Biden’s coronavirus warning, Airbnb readies for IPO, Saudi Aramco bonds
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
US president-elect Joe Biden has warned that the country’s ability to handle Covid-19 could be ham...
UK’s weak household spending, Asia-Pacific trade deal, Biden’s Brexit impact
16 Nov 2020
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A Financial Times analysis has found the UK’s weakness in international economic league tables dur...
Palantir sales growth cheers Wall Street, Poland threatens EU budget, Denmark mink culling
13 Nov 2020
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Data analytics company, Palantir, beat Wall Street forecasts in its first quarterly earnings since g...
Key aide to Boris Johnson quits, ECB set to expand help, TikTok deadline, Turkish lira
12 Nov 2020
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Boris Johnson’s director of communications resigned on Wednesday night following a bitter Downing ...
Trump’s resistance, Lyft weighs delivery business, EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges
11 Nov 2020
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Republicans have grown more assertive in giving cover to Donald Trump’s false claims that the US p...
Covid vaccine lifts stocks, Nikola’s legal bills pile up, India takes aim at Google
10 Nov 2020
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A breakthrough in the race to find a vaccine for Covid-19 fuelled a broad global equity rally on Mon...
Biden looks to unite Democrats, future of UK-US trade, Westfield threatens tenants
09 Nov 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden will face a power struggle between liberal and progressive Democrats, and ...
Biden edges towards victory, Bank of England stimulus, Uber earnings miss
06 Nov 2020
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Joe Biden edged closer to a presidential victory on Thursday night while Donald Trump claimed withou...
Biden holds lead over Trump, US leaves Paris climate agreement
05 Nov 2020
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Joe Biden won Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday in two critical victories that boosted his chances...
US ballot count continues, Ant IPO stalls
04 Nov 2020
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The US presidential election appeared to be headed towards prolonged uncertainty as critical battleg...
US election day voting, investors eye the candidates, Nvidia-Arm China deal in trouble
03 Nov 2020
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US election day begins as Americans brace themselves for what could be a drawn-out result, Nvidia’...
Eurozone economic forecast sinks, UK businesses plea support, aerospace and Brexit
02 Nov 2020
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Fresh lockdowns in Europe announced have triggered a flurry of downgrades to economic growth forecas...
Big tech earnings, US economic data, early voters pour in for US presidential election
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Big tech companies reported mixed earnings for the most recent quarter, and Donald Trump is pointing...
European lockdowns worry investors, China’s Five-Year plan
29 Oct 2020
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Stocks in Europe and the US dropped on Wednesday as Germany and France re-entered lockdowns to slow ...
Apple search, LVMH and Tiffany talk, social media testimony
28 Oct 2020
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Apple is stepping up efforts to develop its own search technology, Boris Johnson’s plan to flout i...
US stocks drop on Monday on coronavirus fears, European banks, Alibaba’s push into grocery delivery
27 Oct 2020
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US stocks on Monday notched their biggest one-day drop in a month on fears that rising coronavirus i...
EU member states hesitate on recovery fund loans, upbeat Oxford vaccine trials, Brexit borders
26 Oct 2020
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Pandemic-struck EU member states are worried about debt and are hesitant to reach for recovery fund ...
Final US presidential debate, FDA approves remdesivir, Intel data hit by pandemic
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, clashed over issues from the pandemic to fore...
US intelligence election warning, Apollo hit by Leon Black’s Epstein ties, report from Lagos
22 Oct 2020
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The US director of national intelligence has warned that Iran and Russia are attempting to influence...
Snap Inc rises on advertising, US Department of Justice takes on Google, big tech regulation
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Snap posted record revenues and attracted the highest-ever number of advertisers to its platform in ...
Stimulus uncertainty, Conoco-Concho deal, China’s semiconductor push
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks slid on Monday as a deadline on US stimulus talks looms and coronavirus cases continue to ...
European double-dip recession concerns, Sunak dangles lockdown money, Brexit market
19 Oct 2020
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Economists worry rising coronavirus infections and fresh government restrictions will cut short the ...
Remdesivir and Covid-19 deaths, Johnson set to force no deal, suburbanites in US election
16 Oct 2020
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The World Health Organization has found the Covid-19 treatment remdesivir does little to prevent dea...
Investors unimpressed by US bank earnings, Paris and The Hague team up on EU tech, Amazon logistics
15 Oct 2020
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France and the Netherlands jointly issued a call for the bloc’s competition authorities to take pr...
WTO Boeing-Airbus ruling, IMF’s warning, short-sellers target pandemic winners
14 Oct 2020
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The EU has been given the green light to hit almost $4bn of US goods with punitive tariffs in retali...
US equities taking election polling to heart, US banks kick off earnings season, UK lockdowns
13 Oct 2020
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US stocks built on last week’s rally with investors assessing US presidential election polls that ...
EU targets Big Tech with ‘hit list’, EM countries call for ambitious debt relief, EU countries on Brexit progress
12 Oct 2020
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EU regulators are drawing up a “hit list” of up to 20 large internet companies that will be subj...
A new cold war, whiskey in days
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions between Washington and Beijing reflect a shift in how America views Asia’s superpower. We...
Lilly Covid drug, Vatican derivatives, UK mining corruption probe
08 Oct 2020
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Eli Lilly, a US drugmaker, has applied for an emergency authorisation of its Covid-19 antibody in th...
US stimulus talks end, Macy’s buys stake in Swedish fintech
07 Oct 2020
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Donald Trump abruptly broke off talks with congressional Democrats on a new fiscal stimulus package ...
Trump returns to White House, a fight over lithium batteries
06 Oct 2020
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Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening after three days of hospital treatment fo...
Trump’s Covid-19 case prompts questions, financial services in a post-Brexit world
05 Oct 2020
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Donald Trump’s doctors said the president could be discharged from hospital today, after a weekend...
Trump tests positive for Covid-19, EU sues UK over internal market bill, Trump & Biden compete over Ohio
02 Oct 2020
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Donald Trump and his wife Melania have tested positive for Covid-19 and will start quarantine barely...
Moderna CEO: no vaccine before US election, digitising Japan’s economy, west’s gold investment
01 Oct 2020
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Moderna Therapeutics’s chief executive told the Financial Times that the company would not have a ...
US presidential debate recap, EY’s Wirecard warning, JPMorgan spoofing settlement
30 Sep 2020
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The first presidential debate quickly turned chaotic, and JPMorgan Chase will have to pay $920m in t...
Monday’s global equity market rebound, US voter suppression, 60/40 portfolio
29 Sep 2020
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European stocks lead a global rally on Monday driven by investors scooping up shares in beaten-down ...
Argentina bonds back in hot water, Swiss immigration vote, Scottish independence
28 Sep 2020
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Argentina’s newly restructured dollar bonds have slumped in value less than a month after a deal w...
US Supreme Court nomination, Trump will not commit to a peaceful transition of power
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The FT’s DC bureau chief Demetri Sevastopulo explains the politics behind Donald Trump’s soon to...
EU to crack down on sweetheart corporate tax deals, TikTok injunction, Turkey central bank
24 Sep 2020
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Brussels steps up its campaign against sweetheart corporate tax deals in the EU, TikTok has asked a ...
Advertisers call truce with Facebook, coronavirus job toll, BoE on negative rates in near future
23 Sep 2020
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Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have reached a deal with big advertisers on harmful content, the Covid...
Stocks dive on Monday, Tiffany gets speedy trial, Tesla’s annual stockholder meeting
22 Sep 2020
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Global stocks suffered a heavy hit on Monday in a rush of nerves about potential new Covid-19 lockdo...
UK weighs new lockdown, ECB measures bond buying program, Trump on Chinese tech
21 Sep 2020
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Rishi Sunak is set to extend the Treasury’s UK-wide programme of business support loans ahead of w...
ByteDance pledges TikTok IPO, Mulvaney on Brexit, Biden tries to win with Latino voters
18 Sep 2020
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ByteDance has agreed to list TikTok on a US stock market at some point after its proposed partnershi...
Fed eyes low rates until 2023, Trump calls for stimulus, Snowflake IPO
17 Sep 2020
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The Federal Reserve projects no interest rate increases until at least the end of 2023, and US Presi...
TikTok set to become standalone US company, central banks preview, Nikola fights off fraud claims
16 Sep 2020
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ByteDance will place TikTok’s global business in a new US-headquartered company with Oracle invest...
White House reviews TikTok deal, Nvidia’s Arm Holdings deal, VW on ‘Dieselgate’
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration will review the “technical partnership” deal struck between Oracle and ...
SoftBank take-private talks, Netflix to outspend on content, economic stimulus in Germany vs France
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SoftBank executives have revived discussions about taking the technology group private, and Netflix ...