Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
US inflation cools
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
US inflation fell sharply to 3 per cent in June, the $1.35tn US junk bond market has shrunk by almos...
A big win for Microsoft’s Activision deal
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Hunt has ordered ministers to find more than £2bn to fund public sector pay rises this year,...
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...
Loan losses mount for US banks
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel is set to start voting on controversial judicial reforms on Monday and the largest US banks a...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ra...
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 ...
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 pla...
The Thames Water debt debacle
30 Jun 2023
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The US Supreme Court has curbed universities’ ability to consider race in admissions, turmoil at t...
Banks try to avoid ending up like SVB
29 Jun 2023
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Sterling suffers biggest one-day fall against the dollar in a month following UK growth fears, US ba...
Japan goes all in on chips
28 Jun 2023
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Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, has won a second term in office, the US Supreme Court ...
Wagner head downplays attack on Russia
27 Jun 2023
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The head of the Wagner militia has denied trying to overthrow the Russian government, and western ba...
Wagner’s 24-hour coup
26 Jun 2023
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Wagner troops withdrew from Russia late Saturday night after an abandoned coup attempt on Moscow, Gr...
The housing supply problem
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Home prices in the US and UK skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic. In a special four-part ser...
The UK’s ‘mortgage bomb’
23 Jun 2023
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The Bank of England’s 50 basis point interest rate rise is causing concern for the UK’s already-...
Modi tries to deepen US tech ties
22 Jun 2023
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India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is set to address the US Congress today, and US regulators ar...
The trials and tribulations of AI voice tech
21 Jun 2023
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Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has accelerated dealmaking in the US, and US president Joe B...
US and China meet in an attempt to ease tensions
20 Jun 2023
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has met with China's President Xi Xinping in an attempt to eas...
AstraZeneca could spin off China business
19 Jun 2023
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AstraZeneca has drawn up plans to break out its China business, and France is challenging a Ger...
Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: epilogue
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this last episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the FT’s chief economics commentator sits down wit...
Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: Hillary Clinton
17 Jun 2023
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In this fourth episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the FT’s chief economics commentator discusses t...
Central banks all over the place
16 Jun 2023
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UK hedge fund firm Odey Asset Management is being dismantled in the wake of sexual misconduct allega...
Fed skips an interest rate increase
15 Jun 2023
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The US Federal Reserve paused its interest rate rise campaign on Wednesday after 10 straight increas...
The housing supply problem: Part 4
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EY’s global chief executive Carmine Di Sibio says he is planning to retire next year, and the FT’...
The Crispin Odey investigation
13 Jun 2023
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France is drumming up support for a global levy on greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping indust...
Scotland’s Sturgeon arrested
12 Jun 2023
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The former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, was arrested on Sunday, Boris Johnson’s ex...
Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: resisting autocracy
10 Jun 2023
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In this third episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to t...
Rishi Sunak comes to Washington
09 Jun 2023
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Tesla and General Motors have struck a deal to let the Detroit carmaker’s customers plug in at 12,...
Introducing Unhedged
08 Jun 2023
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We want to tell about a new podcast coming soon! On Unhedged, Ethan Wu, Katie Martin and other marke...
The housing supply problem: Part 3
08 Jun 2023
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The US, Taiwan and Japan will share real-time data from naval reconnaissance drones, India’s deadl...
Sequoia Capital to spin off its China business
07 Jun 2023
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The UK Cabinet Office will tell central government departments to remove all surveillance equipment ...
SEC sues world’s largest crypto exchange
06 Jun 2023
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US securities regulators yesterday sued the world’s largest crypto exchange and accused Binance of...
A daring high-wire act: Inside the Asda buyout
05 Jun 2023
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Saudi Arabia is cutting oil production, Turkey has a new finance minister and Apple is unveiling a m...
FTNB Live! FT Weekend Fest in Washington DC
04 Jun 2023
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A special live recording of the FT News Briefing at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington, DC. Our t...
Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: the ‘democratic recession’
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to ...
What did the fight over the US debt ceiling cost?
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Binance has lost a quarter of its market share, the US government is on the verge of passing a deal ...
The housing supply problem: Part 2
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US House of Representatives voted to raise the debt ceiling last night. Plus, in part two of our...
Wall Street gives crypto a chance
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China has called for “stable and constructive” ties with the US in a meeting with Elon Musk and ...
Ageing populations hit government credit ratings
30 May 2023
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Democrats and Republicans are confident they can pass a deal to avert a US debt default, the lira sl...
Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of this four-part series, the renowned FT columnist and economist Martin Wolf tells the...
Nvidia closes in on the trillion dollar club
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More large US companies are taking shelter in bankruptcy court, Nvidia is on course to become the fi...
The housing supply problem: Part I
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK gilt yields hit levels not seen since last year’s “mini” Budget crisis, and Australia’s g...
A new gold rush
24 May 2023
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A double-digit drop in German exports to China has rattled Europe’s biggest economy and the UK is ...
Adani tries to win back investors
23 May 2023
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China’s semiconductor industry fears Japanese curbs on exports of crucial chipmaking equipment are...
China bans Micron’s products from key infrastructure
22 May 2023
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis is expected to launch his campaign for US president this week, China h...
TikTok spied on our reporter
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US Supreme Court rules to protect big tech companies from being liable for users’ posts, and G...
Will the digital euro come online?
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine’s allies worry that support from the US will lose steam during next year’s election cycl...
US sues to block drug merger
17 May 2023
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The Federal Trade Commission sued to block the biotechnology company Amgen’s $28.3bn deal to acqui...
Ford to scale back China investments
16 May 2023
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Ford plans to reduce its future investment in China, and prominent investors are upset with the reco...
Turkey’s tight election
15 May 2023
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Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu are locked in a tight battle f...
Markets shrug off potential US debt default
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk says he’s hired a new CEO for Twitter, and Turkey heads to the polls this weekend for wh...
China makes a show of corporate raiding
11 May 2023
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Disney sharply reduced its losses from video streaming in the second quarter, US inflation dipped to...
Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky takes on Twitter
10 May 2023
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Donald Trump has been found liable for the sexual abuse of a journalist in a Manhattan department st...
Is commercial property the ‘next shoe to drop’?
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Bank of England is set to raise interest rates to their highest level since 2008 this week, and ...
US debt ceiling deadline looms
08 May 2023
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The G7-led price cap on Russian oil exports has forced the Kremlin to raise the tax burden on produc...
Another rough day for US regional banks
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apple said on Thursday that revenues shrank for a second straight quarter, the European Central Bank...
Fed hints it might pause rate hikes
04 May 2023
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The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, Russia...
US regional bank stocks still under pressure
03 May 2023
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The rescue of First Republic this week has failed to stop a sell-off in regional bank shares, Apple ...
Jamie Dimon’s big win
02 May 2023
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Chinese initial public offerings have raised more than five times as much money as those in the US t...
First Republic in limbo
01 May 2023
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At least three large banks have submitted bids to buy all or parts of First Republic, the US is urgi...
Big Tech props up US stocks
28 Apr 2023
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Russia’s stock market has climbed to its highest level in more than a year, European commercial re...
The Magic Kingdom goes to war
27 Apr 2023
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Walt Disney sued Florida governor Ron DeSantis over the state’s ‘retaliation’ for the company’...
Sudanese refugees pour into Chad
26 Apr 2023
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Google’s advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2023 nearly matched numbers from a year ago, ...
UBS’s Credit Suisse challenge
25 Apr 2023
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US President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for re-election, UBS c...
America's dollar stores get a makeover
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Santander is trying to poach some of Credit Suisse’s most senior investment bankers, UK prime mini...
Introducing Behind the Money: Night School
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a lot of big finance and economics news in 2023. Whether it's stories about rising in...
Credit Suisse bondholders sue
21 Apr 2023
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Regional banks across the US have largely stopped the massive outflow of deposits after the collapse...
Ukraine pleads for air defence missiles
20 Apr 2023
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Natural gas consumption in the EU fell almost 18 per cent in the past eight months, Ukraine will ple...
The TikTok divide
19 Apr 2023
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox has agreed to pay $787.5mn to settle a landmark defamation case, Bank of Amer...
A power struggle in Sudan
18 Apr 2023
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Apple and Goldman Sachs launched a new savings account with an interest rate more than 10 times the ...
Turkey’s voters lose faith in Erdogan
17 Apr 2023
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Companies have committed more than $200bn to US manufacturing projects since Congress passed sweepin...
The quantum revolution: The way the world is
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of this Tech Tonic series, we hear how radical quantum ideas are reshaping our ...
Open AI’s ‘red team’
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BP has started pumping crude through a new $9bn offshore platform as it slows its transition out of ...
Emerging markets debt crunch
13 Apr 2023
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Donald Trump is suing his former lawyer Michael Cohen, an uptick in core prices in the US is keeping...
EY: Breaking up is hard to do
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EY has scrapped plans to break up its audit and consulting businesses, the IMF has warned the global...
Rise of the Russian informer
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Companies on the S&P 500 index are expected to report a 6.8 per cent decline in first-quarte...
The rising influence of Mrs Assad
10 Apr 2023
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China’s financial sector is reeling from a series of new corruption probes and the FT’s Middle E...
The quantum revolution: Brain waves
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computers aren’t the only form of groundbreaking technology that use quantum physics. Madh...
Ukraine’s plans for Crimea
06 Apr 2023
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Brands keep spending on TikTok despite a threat by the US to ban the social media app, KKR is lookin...
Trump pleads not guilty
05 Apr 2023
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Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in court on Tuesday, Credit...
EU pressures China to help end war in Ukraine
04 Apr 2023
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The president of the European Commission has called on Beijing to play a “constructive” role in ...
The cases against Trump
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Donald Trump will turn himself in to New York prosecutors on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia ...
The quantum revolution: First port of call
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Port of Los Angeles is one of the world’s busiest — and most inefficient. It’s now using a...
Oleksandr Gryban: Investing in Ukraine’s future
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has been indicted in what is the first criminal charges against a former US president i...
Binance hid links to China
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social media giant Meta is deliberating a company-wide ban on political advertising in Europe, crypt...
Beijing’s big bailouts
29 Mar 2023
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JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon will testify about his bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the Mid...
Israel’s PM Netanyahu agrees to postpone judicial reforms
28 Mar 2023
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed a bitterly contested judicial overhaul, the ...
Money market madness
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity are the biggest winners from investors pouring cash into ...
The quantum revolution: ‘Spooky action’
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tech Tonic dives into the science at the heart of quantum computing. How do t...
A congressional TikTok smackdown
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok’s CEO faced bruising questioning in US Congress over the social media app’s links to its ...
The Fed passes on a pause
23 Mar 2023
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The US Federal Reserve pressed ahead with its monetary tightening campaign despite the recent turmoi...
Banking crisis complicates interest rate decisions
22 Mar 2023
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The IMF has struck a deal with Ukraine to provide a $15.6bn loan, some former central bankers s...
Will a $3bn bailout be enough for Sri Lanka?
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The IMF’s board has finally backed a $3bn bailout for Sri Lanka to help relieve a ‘catastro...
UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UBS agreed to buy Credit Suisse for $3.25bn after a frantic weekend of negotiations brokered by Swis...
The quantum revolution: The race to build a quantum computer
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tech companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM are all working on plans for a commercially viabl...
Wall Street banks rescue First Republic
17 Mar 2023
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The largest US banks have banded together to deposit $30bn into First Republic Bank in an attempt to...
Swiss central bank backs Credit Suisse
16 Mar 2023
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The Swiss central bank said it would provide a liquidity backstop to Credit Suisse, UK chancellor Je...
The Fed’s SVB balancing act
15 Mar 2023
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The world’s largest private investment firms are exploring the purchase of loans from the remains ...