FT News Briefing

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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&nbsp...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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

Contributed by Lukas

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...