FT News Briefing
Episodes
A look at Temu’s murky business model
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram overtook TikTok in new app downloads last year, US President Joe Biden announced a plan to set up a port on the coast of Gaza to help facili...
Is private equity actually worth it?
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bayer chief executive Bill Anderson has ruled out a fresh capital increase and Ghana’s finance minister is concerned that the country’s new anti-L...
China hopes for a big economic rebound
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Wednesday put a £10bn personal tax cut at the heart of his Budget, and China is setting a 5 per cent growth target for...
The politics behind the UK Budget
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gold prices have surged close to record levels, and the EU has fined Apple €1.8bn as it boosts its fight against Big Tech. Plus, the FT’s Sam Flem...
Cracks widen in Israel’s war cabinet
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
China has pledged “computing vouchers” to subsidise its AI startups, Bayer is still struggling to move past its Roundup woes, and an Israeli senio...
Swamp Notes: Biden and Trump’s immigration duel
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The issue of immigration might be Donald Trump’s biggest political boon ahead of the US election in November, but President Joe Biden went to the US...
Formula One’s road map to success
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The cost of Rishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda could exceed £580mn by the end of the decade, and Toyota’s bet on hybrid vehicles...
McKinsey’s China problem
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi has received about $136mn in stock options after hitting a performance target, and Adani is working to push Ind...
Should western troops go to Ukraine?
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Putin’s forces have rehearsed using tactical nuclear weapons at an early stage of conflict with a major world power and Emmanuel Macron, pr...
Sweden set to join the Nato club
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden is set to become a Nato member, the UK Financial Conduct Authority is planning to name firms under investigation at a much earlier stage, and M...
Biotech is back
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel plans to raise debt and taxes to fund its war in Gaza and global house prices are on the rise. Plus, FT correspondent Paola Tamma discusses som...
Swamp Notes: Trump’s legal troubles
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former US President Donald Trump is the subject of four criminal cases and several civil suits. That means the presumptive Republican nominee will be ...
Russia’s failed efforts to rebuild in Ukraine
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK and EU will on Friday sign a deal to co-operate more closely in tackling illegal immigration and criminal gangs, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 index...
HSBC profits nosedive
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia’s net income soared nearly 800 per cent in the latest quarter compared to the same period in 2022, HSBC reported an 80 per cent drop in quart...
Discover what’s in Capital One’s wallet
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is losing support from small donors, US lender Capital One has agreed to buy rival Discover Financial for $35.3bn, and Barclays updated i...
Israel’s economy slumps
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine withdraws from Avdiivka, lacking weaponry and ammunition, and there are questions about OpenAI’s business model.Mentioned in this podcast:Is...
What next for Russia after Navalny?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union plans to hit Apple with a €500mn fine over music streaming, German companies make record investments in the US, and emerging mark...
Swamp Notes: Donald Trump takes on Nato (again)
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump picked plenty of fights with Nato during his time in office. Now, even as war rages in Ukraine, candidate Trump is back at it. But is his...
Asset managers cool on climate group
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
European Commision president Ursula von der Leyen says Europe’s military needs to step up and two of the world’s biggest asset managers are quitti...
Will Germany lead Nato?
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering slashing public spending to fund pre-election tax cuts, Germany is looking to boost its defence spending at a...
Arm’s share price goes crazy
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investors scaled back bets that the US Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates in May, and Arm shares soared after the UK chip designer...
Wall Street fell out of love with equity hedge funds
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US law firm Latham & Watkins is cutting off automatic access to its international databases for its Hong Kong-based lawyers, one of the oldest and...
Imran Khan rises again in Pakistan
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
EY took on $700mn in debt for its failed “Project Everest” plan, and tech companies are shedding jobs in a pivot to AI. Plus, Shein is seeking Bei...
Untold: The Retreat, Ep. 1 - Dear Madison
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Untold: The Retreat, a new podcast from the special investigations team at the Financial Times. In the first episode of The Retreat, Madis...
Swamp Notes: Is it the economy, stupid?
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, common political wisdom has held that Americans vote based on their satisfaction with the economy. But even as the US economy booms, with...
Chill out. Netflix is winning the streaming wars
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses his top commander, Gaza’s last refuge is Israel’s next target and OpenAI is on track to hit $2...
Your Uber profits have arrived
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce the party is abandoning its target to spend £28bn a year on green investment, Uber has reported its...
The story behind the money going to Mexico
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Standard Chartered has sounded out UK political heavyweights Sir Charles Roxburgh and Sir Sajid Javid as potential candidates for its next chair, BP r...
Pakistan’s Imran Khan fights an election from jail
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
China’s national chip champions expect to make next-generation smartphone processors as early as this year, and Northern Ireland is trying to chart ...
Turkey’s central bank chief steps down
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plans for a code on how AI models can use copyrighted materials have stalled in the UK, and US forces carried out strikes against Iran-backed militant...
Swamp Notes: How money is shaping the 2024 US election
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Business leaders backed away from Donald Trump after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in 2021. Now, political donors are warming to the former p...
Big tech continues to rock
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meta will reward shareholders with its first-ever dividend and an additional $50bn in share buybacks, US President Joe Biden has approved financial sa...
Viktor Orbán: the EU’s chief disrupter
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates at a 23-year high, the EU’s battle with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán could come to a head on Th...
Palestinians pay the price for UN allegations
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft reported record quarterly revenues, the IMF projects the Russian economy and the global economy will grow faster than previously expected, a...
China’s not so Evergrande
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Binance has bowed to pressure from customers who want to hold their assets with an independent custodian, a Hong Kong court has ordered property giant...
The challenges to a ceasefire in Gaza
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels threatens to hit Hungary’s economy if Viktor Orbán vetoes Ukraine aid, the UN’s highest court orders Israel to limit harm to Palestinian...
Swamp Notes: GOP primaries and the power of incumbency
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So far the Republican primaries have had very few surprises. Former President Donald Trump continues to be the favourite. On the first episode of Swam...
How airlines are handling the Boeing fiasco
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into the partnerships between Big Tech cloud providers and generative AI companies, the European ...
There’s active interest in passive funds
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US aviation regulator has blocked Boeing from expanding production of its most popular plane, the fight between Poland’s Donald Tusk and Andrzej...
Resuscitating Hong Kong’s stock exchange
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey’s parliament has voted in favour of Sweden joining Nato and Arab nations are about to unveil a peace plan for Israel and Hamas. Plus, the FT’...
Can the yield curve still predict recessions?
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An inverted yield curve is sending jitters across the US economy, Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu is in hot water over its involvement in the UK ...
What’s next for Bitcoin ETFs?
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poland secures EU concession to limit food exports from Ukraine, Ron DeSantis ends his bid for the White House, investors turn to BlackRock and Fideli...
What if AI knows your death date?
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has signalled he wants to cut taxes further in the coming months, the conflict in the Red Sea is rekindling fears over oil a...
China is not out of the woods yet
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A top IMF official has warned that central banks need to move cautiously on cutting rates this year, BP has appointed interim boss Murray Auchincloss ...
The uphill battle to beat Trump
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wage growth is slowing in the world’s largest economies, a federal judge stopped JetBlue’s planned deal to buy Spirit Airlines, and the EU’s tax...
US-owned ship attacked off Yemen
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Red Sea shipping route remains dangerous. What's behind Chinese carmaker BYD's success in the electric vehicle market? And new figures show Germany wa...
Taiwan defies China in election
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taiwan’s presidential election shows that voters are willing to defy China, the 2024 US presidential election kicks off today, and American banks sa...
The world’s biggest mining project finally gets off the ground
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US and the UK have carried out military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels, US inflation numbers for December cool expectations for interes...
What ETFs mean for bitcoin
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US President Joe Biden plans to send a high-level delegation to Taipei after the election in Taiwan on Saturday, the US Securities and Exchange Commis...
The scramble for a new EU leader
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese companies are resorting to chips repurposed from standard PC gaming products to develop artificial intelligence tools, and Charles Michel’s ...
Can Boeing get back on track?
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shares in Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems tumbled after a mid-flight accident, and tens of thousands of Afghan women and girls have been able t...
Football clubs are pouring billions into stadiums
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A pile up of bad debt threatens to sour investors’ growing optimism about the prospects for the US’s largest banks, and European football clubs ar...
Local Chinese banks get a lifeline
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the world’s top gold producers fired its chief executive for serious misconduct, Chinese provinces pumped a record $31bn of capital into frag...
Convertible bonds are so hot right now
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Minutes from the December Federal Reserve meeting show that officials were committed to higher-for-longer interest rates, convertible bonds have been ...
BlackRock and Vanguard duke it out over ETF market
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has fired a second massive barrage of the new year on Ukraine’s capital and the country’s second-largest city, Benjamin Netanyahu’s right...
Markets, elections and AI in 2024
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The FT’s Peter Spiegel, Katie Martin and Elaine Moore preview what could happen in geopolitics, markets and artificial intelligence in 2024.The FT N...
From “What Next”: Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FT News Briefing presents a special episode from Slate’s “What Next” podcast, hosted by Mary Harris. Everybody loves pandas—and China kno...
Superintelligent AI: can chatbots think?
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT really intelligent? Large language models such as GPT 4 appear to use human-level cognitive abili...
Culture chat: ‘Napoleon’ with historian Simon Schama
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Sir Simon Schama and FT deputy arts editor and film expert Raph Abraham join Lilah to discuss the historical epic ‘Napoleon’. Ridley Sco...
Hot Money: The New Narcos
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot.For more...
The year of weight-loss drugs
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt raised the prospect of the Bank of England reducing interest rates in 2024 in an interview with the FT, and Novo Nordisk’s dr...
This bond market rally is epic
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A global rally in government debt has driven yields past many Wall Street targets for the end of 2024, and rising premiums in China are driving famili...
India’s digital transformation
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Copper is set to finish the year as the top-performing industrial metal, and the FT’s John Paul Rathbone recently visited a Hamas tunnel and talks a...
US Steel gets a new owner
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Activist investor Cevian Capital has taken a €1.2bn stake in UBS, and Nippon Steel has agreed to buy US Steel in a $14.9bn deal. Plus, the FT’s Jo...
A Chinese spy in Europe’s midst
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Corporate bankruptcies are increasing at double-digit rates in most advanced economies, and TSMC is going to play a huge role in Taiwan’s upcoming e...
UAW strike kicks off new era for US labour
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Central banks are charting different courses for interest rates in 2024, and EU leaders have agreed to officially start accession talks with Ukraine. ...
The west is losing patience with Israel
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates at a 22-year high, countries reached a deal at the COP28 climate summit to transition away from f...
Is Signa’s downfall a canary in the coalmine?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak headed off a Conservative revolt over his flagship Rwanda migration bill, US core inflation rose last month, and the FT’...
Wealthy donors and campus speech
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Investors poured record sums into high-yield bond exchange traded funds in November, Rishi Sunak will on Tuesday seek to face down rightwing Tory rebe...
The Big Four’s year of layoffs
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
French immigration reforms put Emmanuel Macron’s leadership to the test, Pisa rankings show sharp decline in student attainment in maths and reading...
US oil is keeping Opec on its toes
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The EU is set to pave the way for completely ending gas imports from Russia and Belarus, and a record supply of oil from the US is complicating O...
The humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moody’s Investors Service advised staff in China to work from home ahead of its cut to the outlook for the country’s sovereign credit rating, Pale...
The crackdown on Ukraine’s oligarchs
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leading economists say the Federal Reserve will hold off on interest rate cuts until at least July 2024, and the US Supreme Court heard a case that co...
Hot Money: The New Narcos - Ep. 1, Murder Brokers
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Money is back with a brand new season. On the first episode of Hot Money: The New Narcos, a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, ...
Venezuela votes for a land grab in Guyana
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The UK will make it harder for employers to hire overseas staff in an attempt to reduce record immigration by 300,000 a year, a Venezuelan referendum ...
Wealthy Argentines flock to Uruguay
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate a large area of land in the south of the strip, South Korea has become a top 10 defence exporter s...
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war be...
Why markets had a stellar November
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Washington is aiming to halve Russia’s oil and gas revenues by the end of this decade, and markets turned things round and had a great November. Plu...
Nato says don’t underestimate Russia
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nato’s secretary-general is warning the west not to underestimate Russia, Cigna is in talks to merge with Humana in a deal that would create a US he...
Germany’s €60bn budget hole
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A record number of Chinese people have defaulted since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, a court ruling in Germany has opened up a huge €60b...
Israel-Hamas truce extended
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Qatar said mediators had secured a deal to prolong the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas by two days, Chinese fast-fashion group, Shein, has fi...
COP28: Climate summit tries to kick fossil fuel habit
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey’s exports to Russia of goods vital for Moscow’s war machine have soared in 2023, and nations at this year’s COP28 summit will revisit a p...
What the Dutch far-right win means for the EU
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Voters in the Netherlands elect Geert Wilders; UK immigration numbers reach new high; Plus, senior Carlsberg executives are detained in Russia.Mention...
Ousted OpenAI board member on AI safety concerns
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman returns and OpenAI board members are given the boot; US authorities foil a plot to kill Sikh separatist leader on US soil; plus, the UK’s...
OpenAI and Sam Altman’s superpowers
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal to release hostages, Dutch voters head to the polls today, and Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao has resigned...
Argentina is in its Milei era
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A majority of OpenAI employees sent a letter demanding that the board reinstate former CEO Sam Altman, Argentina is entering a new era after electing ...
Milei elected president of Argentina
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Radical libertarian economist, Javier Milei, has won Argentina’s presidential elections, investors are shaking up the venture capital market by rais...
Life and Art: Nathan Fielder and ‘The Curse’
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Life and Art, a new podcast FT Weekend. Join host Lilah Raptopoulos for two episodes each week.On Mondays, they talk about life and how to...
EY’s new leader has her work cut out for her
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than half of low-income UK households with mortgages have fallen behind on one or more of their bills and Alibaba disappointed investors after an...
Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is attempting to save a plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda; an EU proposal will see Denmark enforcing the price cap...
Biden and Xi meet in San Francisco
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will hold a high-profile summit in San Francisco today, US inflation fell more than expected to 3.2 per cent in October, and ...
The return of David Cameron
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Global investment banks have criticised a blanket ban on short selling imposed by South Korean regulators, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stunned Westm...
The hack that halted the US Treasury market
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s Takeover Panel has reported its first deficit in almost a decade, and oil prices have been cooling off at a pretty weird time. Plus, the FT...
FTNB Live: The best US cities for foreign investment
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re bringing you a special live conversation from the FT’s Investing in America conference in Miami. Marc is joined on stage by FT US managing e...
Paris races to clean up Seine before Olympics
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has added at least Rbs3.4tn ($37bn) to its budget for this year, the war between Israel and Hamas is starting to bite into Israel's economy, an...
Introducing: Life and Art, from FT Weekend
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Life and Art, from FT Weekend. It's a new twice-weekly culture podcast from the Financial Times. On Monday, we talk about life, and how to...
Arm wrestles with bad first quarter as a public company
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shares of UK chip designer Arm fell after its revenue forecast for the current quarter left Wall Street underwhelmed, the US’s top diplomat has prov...
Israel plans for ‘indefinite’ grip over Gaza
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The IMF has warned rapid wage increases in eastern Europe risk eroding the region’s competitive edge, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu s...
The best US cities for foreign investment
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WeWork filed for bankruptcy, PwC plans to cut up to 600 jobs in the UK, and the FT’s Peter Spiegel explains who won the distinction of the best US c...
Private equity wrestles with higher interest rates
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump testifies in New York today, Japan’s prime minister turns to stimulus to offset the pain of inflation, private equity is getting pummel...