FT News Briefing
Episodes
OpenAI’s long-awaited restructuring deal
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Markets surge on Argentine election results
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US companies struck more than $80bn worth of deals, Argentina’s currency and government bonds surged after a landslide electoral victory for Preside...
The stage is set for high-stakes Trump-Xi meeting
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Russian oil companies shook energy markets on Thursday, and the US president pardoned Binance co-founder Ch...
Sequoia Capital’s free speech debate
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla said its quarterly profit fell by more than a quarter, Sequoia Capital’s chief operating officer resigned over comments made by partner Shaun ...
South Africans question future of Black empowerment policies
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 cre...
Japan’s transformational coalition deal
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
European governments have rallied behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and are rushing to secure a deal on the use of Russia’s frozen asse...
Why Beijing still loves its five-year plans
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart to accept Russia’s war terms during Friday’s volatile White House meeting, and five-year...
Matcha mania strains Japan
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rem...
Investors turn to private economic data
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump has threatened new “large scale” export controls on China, and Wall Street’s investment banks just wrapped up a record...
Israel approves ceasefire plan
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Israeli government approved the US-brokered deal for a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, the US Treasury has intervened in Argentina’s curr...
Quantitative easing is under the microscope
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 bac...
Saudi Arabia’s push to liberalise
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 🔀
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Washington tangos with another government shutdown
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration’s financial regulator is preparing to change five decades of corporate reporting practice, and the US government is once ag...
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27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Ukraine’s new war chest: frozen Russian funds?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 E...
Alarm bells over US lending standards
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BNP Paribas has relaxed a policy that blocked it from financing “controversial weapons”, US debt investors have raised the alarm over lax lending ...
US companies love AI. But can’t say why
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boss of Eli Lilly has branded the UK “probably the worst country in Europe” for drug prices, US President Donald Trump hit out at the UN at a ...
Oracle’s leadership shake-up
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia said it planned to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI to support a massive build-out of artificial intelligence data centres, Oracle’s Safra Catz ...
Big Tech is losing a battle with Brussels
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US companies may have to pay billions in new fees to hire foreign workers, and US tech groups are losing a political battle in Brussels to gain access...
Nvidia throws rival Intel a lifeline
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deutsche Bank chief executive Christian Sewing is set to be named as a defendant in legal proceedings, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and US...
The Fed changes course
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the first time this year and China is banning its tech companies from buying AI chips made by Nvidia. P...
Trump shifts power from shareholders to bosses
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK and US are set to announce deeper co-operation on digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, a UN commission concluded that Israel has comm...
Will the US and China make a trade deal?
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Cook can remain a Federal Reserve governor for now, the US and China seem to be making progress in their trade talks, and the US and UK promised ...
Turkey’s opposition is under siege
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Borrowing costs for the French government are outpacing some French corporations, and the threats to Turkey’s leading opposition party may be part o...
Charlie Kirk’s killing leads to calls for retribution
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brazil’s supreme court has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup d’état, conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s ki...
Russia tests Nato defences
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead, military analysts are worried about Nato’s response to a Russian drone attack, and US dr...
Israel escalates attacks on Hamas
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US annual jobs numbers get a revision, and Israel is intensifying its fight against Hamas. Plus, there’s a brand new copper mining conglomerate, and...
Macron looks for a new PM, again
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rupert Murdoch has resolved the bitter dispute over his sprawling media empire, France is once again without a prime minister, and US bank PNC has agr...
Political instability jolts Japan
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The French government is on the brink of another collapse, and Japan’s prime minister quits after just a year in office. Plus, China may open its do...
Bond investors are counting on US tariff revenues
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump’s nominee to join the Federal Reserve has vowed to uphold central bank independence, bond traders are banking on revenue f...
AI helps Google dodge a bullet
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lloyds Banking Group will put thousands of its staff at risk of dismissal, and Indonesians are angered over the widening inequality in their country. ...
Bond woes spill over into equities
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sell-off in government bonds spilled into the equity market as stocks fell on Tuesday, and Eurozone inflation ticked up to 2.1 per cent in August. P...
Russia suspected of GPS interference on EU official's flight
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli banks pressed to give back war profits to customers, Russia denies GPS jamming of an European commission jet, and Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi ...
The world’s newest petrostate heads to the polls
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The leaders of China and India met on Sunday amid trade tensions with the US, and Guyanese voters head to the polls today to chart a future for the wo...
Investors remain chipper about Nvidia
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some World Trade Organization members are preparing to unveil a new grouping to boost “trade openness”, and the FT’s Katie Martin unpacks the la...
Donald Trump’s new favourite billionaire
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia’s earnings report signalled solid growth, cryptocurrencies are taking a hold of Venezuela’s economy, and more than half of the UK’s bigge...
The risk of firing a central bank governor
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investors are worried that Donald Trump’s attempted firing of a Federal Reserve governor could undermine faith in the world’s most important centr...
Germany’s pension crisis
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump said he was firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, shares in Ørsted plunged after the Trump administration halted one o...
Jerome Powell triggers market bets on a September rate cut
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Powell signalled a monetary policy shift during a high-profile Jackson Hole speech last week, and European investors are pouring money into new ai...
The return of ‘pump and dump’ stock scams
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
EU officials are accelerating plans for a digital euro, and the US Department of Justice has called for Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to be remov...
Can Target get its ‘swagger’ back?
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese regulators are pushing back against US AI chips, Target shares fell more than 6 per cent after the retail group picked an insider to be its ne...
What to expect from Jay Powell’s Jackson Hole speech
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US tech stocks sold off on Tuesday, and Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell will be between a rock and a hard place when he delivers his speech at the Ja...
Italian and French bonds meet in the middle
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump floated the prospect of US security guarantees for Ukraine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking for options after India ...
Zelenskyy goes back to the White House
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy today, just days after meeting Russian President Putin, and the UK’s solar ou...
The markets are shrugging off chaos
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska today, and Dubai is trying to hold on to its role as the financial centr...
Opec pops US shale’s balloon
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fears of a massive non-dom exodus from the UK have been allayed by initial tax data, and UK companies in China are being buoyed by diplomatic law. Plu...
Norway’s oil fund dumps Israeli companies
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The White House walks back expectations for Friday’s meeting between the US and Russian presidents, and Norway’s oil fund is pulling its money out...
Why the Mexican peso is on a tear
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
EU leaders will hold a call with US President Donald Trump ahead of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and the Mexican peso has emerged a...
Trump tries for a Ukraine peace deal
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UK employers cut back hiring over labour and tax cost fears, and Ukraine and its European allies worry about US President Donald Trump’s summit...
A divided Bank of England
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has nominated Stephen Miran to fill a soon-to-be vacant seat on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, and the Bank of England lower...
CoreWeave’s takeover deal hits a speedbump
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
European companies are falling behind US counterparts and CoreWeave’s takeover of Core Scientific is facing some pushback. Plus, Boston Consulting G...
Is Palantir’s stock too good to be true?
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump plans on imposing new sanctions on Russia unless there is a ceasefire in Ukraine, and Palantir’s skyrocketing stock is rai...
Australia wants its port back
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump wants to raise tariffs on India and the CEO of Deutsche Bank approved a controversial trade he was later tasked with probing...
Wall Street digests bitter economic data
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The FT’s US financial commentator joins to discuss how investors are responding to unsettling new economic data, and Germany’s biggest sports reta...
Swamp Notes: Trump’s case against Fed chair Powell
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, we're sharing an episode from our fellow FT podcast, Swamp Notes. The US president is angry with the chair of the Federal Reserve over i...
Trump’s tariffs kick into higher gear
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apple revenues jump on strong iPhone sales and rebound in China and Donald Trump has reimposed tariffs on dozens of trading partners. Plus, Samsung se...
Making sense of a wonky GDP reading
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta’s shares jumped more than 10 per cent off the back of better than expected second-quarter earnings, and the Federal Reserve held rates steady d...
Concerns rise over starvation in Gaza
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The potential US-China trade war truce depends on US President Donald Trump’s approval, and a UN-backed food security group says a famine is unfoldi...
EU politicians bristle at US trade deal
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and UK chancellor Rachel Reeves are at odds, and EU politicians are grumbling over the bloc’s trade deal with...
China’s growing muscle at the UN
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union struck a deal to limit the rate of US tariffs, and public companies are filling their coffers with cryptocurrencies. Plus, the shar...
Return of the stonk
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump is set to visit the UK and Krispy Kreme and GoPro stocks rise after becoming meme stocks. Plus, the ECB keeps rates at 2% an...
Private equity recycles assets
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla’s second-quarter profits fell 23 per cent as sales of its electric vehicles continued to slide, private equity firms made record use of a cont...
Big Pharma’s China gamble
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US House Speaker Mike Johnson sent home Congress members early to avoid a vote on releasing files on Jeffery Epstein, Nigeria’s recalculated GDP ref...
What deregulation means for the UK economy
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JPMorgan Chase explores lending against cryptocurrency, and the UK will have to pay in order to join the EU’s defence fund. Plus, UK chancellor Rach...
Trump’s $50bn tariff haul
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Japan’s ruling coalition lost its majority in the country’s upper house of parliament, and the European Union is trying to break its dependency on...
Is Ukraine sliding into authoritarianism?
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is accused of authoritarianism after favoring loyalists in anti-corruption raids, and the Meta board settles a...
US investment banking is so back
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump asked lawmakers whether he should fire Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell, and Wall Street saw a surprise comeback in investment banking fe...
Why the UK kept an Afghan immigration scheme secret
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump sealed a trade deal with Indonesia and the UK had a secret plan to immigrate Afghans to Britain after a data leak. Plus, tar...
Washington weighs in on crypto
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU proposes to shift its budget to send billions to eastern European countries, and bitcoin hits a record high as US lawmakers are about to vote o...
US investment banking expected to stay in the doldrums
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU has put trade retaliations against the US on hold, and US investment banking is set to extend its losing streak. Plus, the FT’s Eleni Varvits...
Big Pharma markets left on a ‘patent cliff’-hanger
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India is set to reach a record year in initial public offerings and Big Pharma is facing a wave of patent expiration dates. Plus, Meta goes to trial o...
Global copper market weighs Trump tariff threat
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK and France have pledged for the first time to co-ordinate the use of their nuclear weapons, and the copper markets are reeling from US Presiden...
BCG tries to limit Gaza work fallout
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
EU negotiators are closing in on a trade deal with Donald Trump that would cement higher tariffs than those granted to the UK, and Boston Consulting G...
Liechtenstein's zombie-trust apocalypse
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump extended tariff deadlines, and Liechtenstein’s trust industry is in a crisis spurred by American sanctions against Ru...
US stocks: rally or overcorrection?
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington DC today to discuss a Gaza ceasefire proposal with US President Donald Trump, and US stock...
The cost of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has secured passage of his flagship tax and spending legislation and the US jobs market exceeded expectations last month. Plus, the futur...
The mad dash for trade deals
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
European CEOs are lobbying against AI regulations, and trade officials are rushing to make deals before US President Donald Trump’s tariffs take eff...
Hong Kong’s bull run leaves China in the dust
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK government passed its welfare reform bill after making concessions, and Hong Kong’s stocks are beating out mainland China’s. Plus, Eurozone...
Rise of the neobank
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two of the biggest oil companies in the Middle East scale down their acquisition sprees, and Wall Street’s comeback has dramatically narrowed the ga...
US banks are hungry for deals
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is paving the way for more US bank mergers, and China’s online retail giants are losing some key customers. Plus, the race ...
Labour MPs rebel against UK welfare reform
27 Jun 2025
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Some members of the UK's parliament fight back against proposed welfare cuts, and early intelligence suggests Iran’s uranium stockpile is still inta...
Why markets are unfazed by the Middle East conflict
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nato members decided on increased defence spending, the Federal Reserve is planning on cutting capital requirements for America’s biggest banks, and...
Iran's path forward
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks almost hit record highs amid possible de-escalation in the Middle East, and Johns Hopkins University professor Vali Nasr analyses Iran’s f...
Will the wheels come off Nato?
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US president Donald Trump has said Israel and Iran have agreed a ceasefire, shifting priorities in the US are putting pressure on Nato members in Euro...
The US targets Iran’s nuclear programme
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US is now using force to try to eliminate Iran’s nuclear programme, and new tariffs on US household goods take effect. Plus, the chief executive...
EU pushes a UK-style trade deal with the US
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia’s war-time economy is slowing down, and the EU is negotiating a trade deal with the US to keep some tariffs in place. Plus, the Bank of Engla...
The Fed cuts US economic outlook
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve cut its outlook for the US economy on Wednesday, and in the UK, inflation remains higher than ideal. Plus, Big Tech companies are ...
Trump demands that Iran surrender
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump demands unconditional surrender from Iran on social media, and the Iran-Israel conflict causes Trump to leave the G7 summit ...
What Trump’s golden share means for the Nippon deal
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions rise as the EU refuses trade talks with China before next month’s leaders summit, and Airbus announced $10bn of orders at the Paris Air Sho...