FT News Briefing

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty

03 Nov 2023

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Israeli troops have entered Gaza City, European private equity group CVC Capital Partners has postponed plans to float until next year, and central ba...

The battle for EV batteries in US speeds up

02 Nov 2023

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The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and people are now being allowed to cross the border from Gaza into Egypt. Plus, competition for forei...

Governments dip into AI regulation

01 Nov 2023

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial is set to wrap up today, eurozone inflation fell to its lowest level for more than two years, and Odey Asset Managem...

Israel pushes deeper into Gaza

31 Oct 2023

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Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip on Monday, General Motors has reached a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers union, and...

The return of the rice crisis

30 Oct 2023

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Israel has expanded its ground offensive in Gaza as the country launches a new phase of its war to destroy Hamas, and seven tech companies are dominat...

Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand

27 Oct 2023

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FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried gave a preview of his defence against fraud charges, the US is worried that Iran and its proxies will escalate attacks o...

US House Speaker: Fourth time's the charm

26 Oct 2023

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Mike Johnson, a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Plus, in the first instalment of our Investing I...

Who to turn to when the world is crumbling

25 Oct 2023

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Microsoft registered an unexpected rebound in growth in its Azure cloud computing platform during the third quarter, environmental campaigners have at...

Commenting on Israel-Hamas is tricky for businesses

24 Oct 2023

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The EU’s top diplomat called on Monday for a pause in hostilities in order to allow aid deliveries into Gaza, and Argentine bonds tumbled after Sund...

Ukraine and Israel vie for EU’s attention

23 Oct 2023

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Toyota says it is close to being able to mass produce next-generation solid-state batteries, and the European Union is trying to juggle support for Uk...

Can Argentina dollarise?

20 Oct 2023

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The US, Britain and Germany called on their citizens to leave Lebanon, political tensions in the UK are starting to boil over about Israel's response ...

Biden urges Israel to take caution

19 Oct 2023

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Israel will let basic humanitarian aid into Gaza through Egypt, traders have been increasing their bets against the Israeli shekel, TK Netflix, and Be...

How will Egypt handle Gaza?

18 Oct 2023

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Alarm is mounting in Egypt that Gaza’s deepening humanitarian crisis will be thrust across its borders, Scotland’s first minister said the country...

How Microsoft beat the odds

17 Oct 2023

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Poland’s rightwing party will likely be out of power after last weekend’s election, a US-led effort to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip ...

Israel prepares to invade Gaza

16 Oct 2023

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Israel is preparing to launch a major ground invasion of Gaza, the UK justice secretary is set to announce a controversial plan to address the chronic...

The man behind the Hamas attack

13 Oct 2023

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US inflation was higher than forecast in September, the EU has opened an investigation into X over the way disinformation is spreading on its platform...

Hamas is not Israel’s only concern

12 Oct 2023

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Analysts forecast that four of the six big US banks will see Q3 profits fall year on year, Israel has been fighting on its northern border with Lebano...

Israel’s hostage dilemma

11 Oct 2023

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Sir Keir Starmer made a pitch for the votes of disillusioned former Conservative supporters, abductions of dozens of civilians present Israel with ris...

Israel imposes ‘complete siege’ on Gaza

10 Oct 2023

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Israel imposed a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, the Bank of Israel said it planned to sell up to $30bn of dollar reserves to support the shek...

Israel responds to historic Hamas attack

09 Oct 2023

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The death toll from Hamas’s unprecedented multi-front assault on Israel passed 600 on Sunday, and Germany’s conservative opposition won two decisi...

Can artificial intelligence grow safely?

06 Oct 2023

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Economists expect that jobs growth in the US slowed again in September, and the recent sell-off in bonds might be starting to cool. Plus, artificial i...

Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial begins

05 Oct 2023

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Lawyers for the crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried laid out their defence on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak axed the northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line...

McCarthy ousted as US House Speaker

04 Oct 2023

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Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as Speaker of the House of Representatives, the yield on 30-year US Treasuries hit a 16-year peak on Tuesday, Indi...

Rating the ESG raters

03 Oct 2023

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Kristalina Georgieva backs reforms to the IMF that could eventually give more power to China, regulators are calling for more transparency for ESG rat...

McCarthy avoids US government shutdown

02 Oct 2023

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US lawmakers were able to avert a shutdown over the weekend, Slovakia’s election results are adding pressure to the EU’s unity around the war in U...

Can AI help us speak to animals? Part two

30 Sep 2023

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A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence has convinced some scientists that humans will eventua...

Tech IPOs lose their shimmer

29 Sep 2023

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European government bond prices dropped sharply as investors took fright at Italy’s larger than expected budget deficit, optimism for the IPO market...

What does China ‘de-risking’ actually mean?

28 Sep 2023

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Global dealmaking is languishing at a 10-year low, western companies are insulating their China operations, and Chinese battery groups are avoiding or...

The FTC is primed for Amazon

27 Sep 2023

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The US Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon of wielding monopolistic control over online markets, JPMorgan Chase said it settled lawsuits relat...

#MeToo’s mark on industry

26 Sep 2023

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The writers strike hitting Hollywood looks like it’s nearing a close and the FT’s Brooke Masters explores whether recent CEO departures could be a...

Poland’s complicated relationship with Ukraine

25 Sep 2023

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Russia has succeeded in avoiding G7 sanctions on most of its oil exports, Poland is calling for less support for Ukraine, China’s answer to the Worl...

Can AI help us speak to animals? Part one

23 Sep 2023

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A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence is enabling researchers to listen in to all kinds of c...

Rupert Murdoch steps down

22 Sep 2023

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Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp, Russia has barred the export of diesel and petrol, and the Bank of England has held int...

Fed signals fewer cuts in 2024

21 Sep 2023

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Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday signalled support for another rate rise this year and fewer cuts in 2024, share buybacks on the US stock market...

Oil prices are not a barrel of fun

20 Sep 2023

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Shares in grocery delivery group Instacart jumped more than 10 per cent on their first day of trading, oil prices climbed above $95 a barrel for the f...

Can Singapore remain Asia’s ‘safe haven’?

19 Sep 2023

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Instacart’s public listing this week is set to inch Nasdaq further ahead of the New York Stock Exchange in their closest fight for new listings in f...

A historic autoworkers strike

18 Sep 2023

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US auto workers are striking to protect workers against the move to electric vehicles, and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak won’t attend the climate am...

Digital cash and culture wars

15 Sep 2023

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Shares in chip designer Arm jumped by 25 per cent as it began trading on the Nasdaq exchange yesterday, and the European Central Bank has raised inter...

CEO exit throws wrench into BP

14 Sep 2023

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Rising energy costs pushed US inflation above forecasts in August, Bernard Looney’s resignation from BP puts the oil company’s green energy transi...

IPO within Arm’s reach

13 Sep 2023

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BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney is resigning and SoftBank’s Arm is set to hit the public market on Thursday. Plus, we look at why Germany’s ...

Coming soon: Can AI help us speak to animals?

12 Sep 2023

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Some scientists believe that rapid advances in artificial intelligence may also hold the key to decoding animal sounds, allowing us to ‘translate’...

Why the euro is on a losing streak

12 Sep 2023

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Norway’s $1.4tn sovereign wealth fund has become the biggest shareholder in UBS, a landmark antitrust trial between Google and the US government sta...

India shines at G20 summit

11 Sep 2023

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PwC is planning to give up tens of millions of dollars of consulting work for its US audit clients, Australia’s biggest pension fund is going big on...

Biden courts India at G20

08 Sep 2023

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India hosts the G20 summit this weekend, Germany is pushing the European Commission to postpone tariffs on electric vehicle sales between the UK and t...

EU pushes back on ‘too big to care’ tech companies

07 Sep 2023

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US and European corporate bond markets have started September with a bang, the EU released a list of digital services that will have to comply with th...

Ukraine doubles down on counteroffensive

06 Sep 2023

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The EU’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is stepping aside, and the UK has clawed back less than 2 per cent of losses owing to fraud and...

Solving America’s shortage of accountants

05 Sep 2023

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Lloyds Banking Group joins HSBC and US group Citi in ordering employees back into the office, a shortage of accountants is causing problems in the US ...

Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors

04 Sep 2023

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Global growth is set to slow next year after outperforming economists’ expectations so far in 2023, American mothers are re-entering the workforce a...

The ECB is in a pickle

01 Sep 2023

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UBS has reported the biggest-ever quarterly profit for a bank, eurozone core inflation has edged down, and Switzerland has proposed sweeping measures ...

Another coup in Africa

31 Aug 2023

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Military officers in oil-rich Gabon said they had seized power, US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo wrapped up a visit to China, and the billionaire f...

Why Europe can’t quit Russian energy

30 Aug 2023

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The EU is set to import record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia this year, asset management firm Grayscale won a US court ruling to launch...

An unlikely alliance in Brazil

29 Aug 2023

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Goldman Sachs plans to sell one of its personal financial management divisions, Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is close to sealing an...

In search of a new economic playbook

28 Aug 2023

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Chinese corporate earnings reports are forecast to log poor performance and companies are set to downgrade outlooks, and policy makers walked away fro...

Putin breaks his silence on Prigozhin

25 Aug 2023

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Russia's leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday publicly said warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin was dead, the emerging markets group Brics has invited six more cou...

Wagner group’s Prigozhin presumed dead

24 Aug 2023

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Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has reportedly died after a plane crash north-west of Moscow, Nvidia’s revenue more than doubled in ...

All eyes on Jackson Hole

23 Aug 2023

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Markets are looking for signals from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell during this week’s Jackson Hole symposium, global stock markets have lost a...

Can Arm’s listing reignite the IPO market?

22 Aug 2023

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Description: The sell-off in US government debt continued to hit the world’s largest bond market on Monday, and Silicon Valley start-ups are wo...

Drought causes headaches for Panama Canal

21 Aug 2023

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Some of private equity’s biggest names are handing over companies they own to the lending arms of rivals, and Iran is dealing with the consequences ...

Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy computer chips

18 Aug 2023

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US mortgage rates have soared to a 21-year high, US retailer earnings reports send mixed messages on consumer spending, and Saudi Arabia and the Unite...

Introducing: The Russian Banker

17 Aug 2023

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Who is Sergei Leontiev? To the US asylum system, he’s an exiled Russian banker who was persecuted by the state and forced to flee. To Russia, he’s...

New pain for China’s property sector

17 Aug 2023

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Lower gas and electricity costs drove a sharp drop in headline UK inflation in July, Fitch Ratings has downgraded WeWork, and there’s increasing anx...

A year of the Inflation Reduction Act

16 Aug 2023

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US stocks hit a five-week low as a warning of potential Fitch downgrades sent bank shares lower, Beijing is making one of its biggest top-down efforts...

A looming ESG crackdown

15 Aug 2023

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A surprise election result in Argentina spooked markets, iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is trying to pivot to India, and it looks like there’s a US reg...

The new commodity superpowers

14 Aug 2023

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The rouble has fallen to a 16-month low against the dollar, airlines have joined forces with farmers to lobby in Washington so that corn helps power t...

Peak social media: The future

12 Aug 2023

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In the final episode of this Tech Tonic season, FT correspondents weigh in on the trends that will determine the future of social media. From Meta’s...

US inflation is still on the right track

11 Aug 2023

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Iran has transferred five US citizens from prison to house arrest, US headline inflation in July rose slightly from June, and in Mexico the influence ...

China’s economy falls into deflation

10 Aug 2023

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Walt Disney reported quarterly results that showed declines at its television and movie businesses, China’s economy has fallen into deflation, and P...

The weight-loss drug craze

09 Aug 2023

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The UK government is pushing back against an attempt by some members of the House of Lords to close loopholes in transparency legislation, US ban...

Why admitting Ukraine into the EU is tricky

08 Aug 2023

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Meta has axed a team that used artificial intelligence to create the first database of more than 600mn protein structures, and PayPal is launching a s...

Latin American central banks’ head start

07 Aug 2023

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Private equity firms are increasingly offering sweeteners such as fee discounts to secure backing from deep-pocketed investors, US banks are still rel...

Peak social media: Building better platforms

05 Aug 2023

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Can we get rid of the bad bits of social media and keep the good? Is it possible to create a more positive social media experience than the ...

Bank of England continues interest rate rise campaign

04 Aug 2023

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Stronger than expected online sales helped Amazon beat Wall Street expectations for last quarter, and the Bank of England raised interest rates for th...

A hard landing for Europe?

03 Aug 2023

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Investors are increasing their bets that Europe will sink into a painful economic downturn, and luxury groups are bracing for the end of the post-pand...

Trump indicted over attempt to overturn 2020 election

02 Aug 2023

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US prosecutors have charged Donald Trump in connection with his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Uber reported its first operati...

Booming markets neutralise impact of Fed's interest rate rises

01 Aug 2023

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Rising stock prices and falling bond yields in the US have essentially neutralised the impact of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate rises, western ...

The economic impact of extreme heat

31 Jul 2023

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The Bank of Japan announced that it’s going to allow bonds to rise more freely, and China’s politburo has signalled several target measures meant ...

Peak social media: The power of influencers

29 Jul 2023

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Social media today is less about making friends and more about following popular content creators. While those creators are starting to hold some powe...

Stricter rules for US banks

28 Jul 2023

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The European Central Bank has raised interest rates back to their record high, and US bank regulators have advanced plans to impose more arduous capit...

US hits highest interest rates in 22 years

27 Jul 2023

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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, Facebook parent Meta returned to double-digit revenue growt...

A glimmer of hope for the global economy

26 Jul 2023

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Alphabet earnings beat expectations, a new report from the IMF says the future of the global economy is looking a little brighter than it did a few mo...

Spain in political limbo

25 Jul 2023

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Credit Suisse has been fined $388mn by US and British regulators, and Spain is facing an uncertain political future as the right and left failed to se...

A missed shot for women’s football

24 Jul 2023

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America’s risky corporate loan market has been hit by the biggest slew of downgrades since the depths of the Covid crisis in 2020, and European bank...

Peak social media: The debate over young users’ mental health

22 Jul 2023

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There’s a growing feeling that social media is bad for us: bad for society and bad for our wellbeing. That trend has culminated in a new wave of leg...

Treatments for Alzheimer’s, finally

21 Jul 2023

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The Nasdaq Composite had its biggest one-day drop in more than four months, the winner of Thailand’s general election has been suspended from parlia...

Signs of a UK inflation cool-down

20 Jul 2023

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A crackdown on password sharing helped Netflix add nearly 6mn subscribers, UK inflation fell to a 15-month low of 7.9 per cent in June, Ukraine’s ar...

Russia targets western companies

19 Jul 2023

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Big investment banks are turning more bearish on the dollar, and Europeans struggle with a near-record heatwave. Plus, the FT’s Anastasia Stognei ex...

China’s economic slump

18 Jul 2023

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Thames Water’s biggest investor slashed the value of its stake last year, Ford’s steep price cut for its electric pick-up truck rattled shareholde...

Can Tories prevent a massive defeat?

17 Jul 2023

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The EU wants other polluting nations to cut emissions faster. Three of the largest US banks reported a surge in profits last week from charging more f...

Peak social media: The ads machine

15 Jul 2023

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Mark Zuckerberg used advertising to turn Facebook into the first global social media giant, boasting 3bn users around the world. But today there are q...

ChatGPT generates US investigation

14 Jul 2023

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The UK government has invited Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to London, and US regulators are going after the company behind ChatGPT. Plus, th...

US inflation cools

13 Jul 2023

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US inflation fell sharply to 3 per cent in June, the $1.35tn US junk bond market has shrunk by almost $200bn since its all-time peak in late 2021, and...

A big win for Microsoft’s Activision deal

12 Jul 2023

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Jeremy Hunt has ordered ministers to find more than £2bn to fund public sector pay rises this year, JPMorgan is trying to scoop up Silicon Valley Ban...

Nato torn over Ukraine’s membership bid

11 Jul 2023

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Hedge funds have cut their bets on a rising US stock market to the lowest level in at least a decade and pivoted to Europe, a top US banking regulator...

Loan losses mount for US banks

10 Jul 2023

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Israel is set to start voting on controversial judicial reforms on Monday and the largest US banks are expected to report the biggest jump in loan los...

The Congo river conservation debate

07 Jul 2023

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Investors sold stocks and bonds across the world on Thursday as US borrowing costs touched a 16-year high, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is in Ch...

Protecting elephants in the Congo River Basin

06 Jul 2023

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The US and Germany are among the western allies falling behind in delivering promised heavy weapons to Ukraine, and big asset managers are flocking to...

Tracking the gorillas of the Congo Basin

05 Jul 2023

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Israel’s raid on the West Bank reignites fears of escalating violence, Switzerland is looking into potential Russian sanctions violations and we con...

A deep look inside the Congo River Basin

04 Jul 2023

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The UK’s financial watchdog has summoned bank chief executives to address concerns that savings rates are lagging behind the surging cost of mortgag...

France’s George Floyd moment

03 Jul 2023

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Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts to production forecasts for the mixed-reality Vision Pro headset, French president cancels a trip to German...

Peak social media: Trouble at Twitter

01 Jul 2023

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Elon Musk took over Twitter with the promise of promoting free speech and making the loss-making platform profitable again. But his critics say he’s...