Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
SVB jitters spread to global markets
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The collapse of Silicon Valley bank rattled global markets, investors continue to worry about banks,...
SVB’s cardinal sin
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is leading an auction to find a potential buyer for Silico...
The quantum revolution: Q-Day
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the cybersecurity world they call it Q-Day, the day when a quantum computer will be built that ca...
Silicon Valley Bank rattles Wall Street
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A US bank index suffered the worst one-day fall in market value since June 2020, the first France-UK...
Britain’s stuck economy
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EY employees were told that the plan to spin off the consulting business needs to be reworked, and C...
How Hindenburg shorted Adani
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Powell warned US lawmakers that the Federal Reserve is prepared to return to bigger interest rat...
FTX trading arm sues Grayscale
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FTX affiliate Alameda has sued crypto investment company Grayscale and its owner over the structure ...
China’s military spending to outpace economic growth
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huawei is lobbying to build the Malaysian government’s 5G network, China will aim for an economic ...
Introducing Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tech companies and labs around the world are building a revolutionary new computer. Quantum computer...
London Stock Exchange gets the cold shoulder
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US will launch a renewed crackdown on countries that are helping the Kremlin evade western sanct...
Salesforce catches a break
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Salesforce reported better than expected earnings on Wednesday amid a fight with activist investors,...
Goldman’s big bet
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Goldman Sachs is going all in on asset management, Nigeria’s opposition parties are calling for a ...
A big step for Brexit
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shell’s top executives explored moving the company to the US, and Britain and the EU clinched a de...
The future of the World Bank
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Major US employers are reporting a dramatic improvement in hiring conditions despite official data, ...
Ukrainian filmmaker Nadia Parfan on art and resistance
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Parfan was travelling outside Ukraine when Russia invaded on February 24. Instead of remaining...
Life in a war zone
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko descr...
The economics of Russia’s war in Ukraine
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Investors are betting the European Central Bank will raise interest rates to all-time highs, and the...
Russia’s ‘second front’
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Consumer confidence in the eurozone is up, Moscow is buying influence in Africa on the cheap, and th...
Biden in Poland for Ukraine war anniversary
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
US President Joe Biden travels to Poland to mark one year since Moscow invaded Ukraine, the FT’s F...
Nigeria’s ‘democracy generation’
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki is stepping down, the Pentagon is reviewing its weapons stock...
The SEC’s crypto crackdown
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
World Bank president David Malpass will step down from his post at the end of June, US authorities h...
Dispatch from northwest Syria
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
US inflation declined in January though less than expected, Turkey’s president faces a backlash fo...
US regulators go after non-competes
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nigeria’s highest court slapped a temporary ban on the plan to replace the country’s largest cur...
Syrian refugees in Turkey face rising hostility
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The earthquake in Turkey has worsened the plight of Syrian refugees who already face rising hostilit...
Credit Suisse’s big slump
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China has pulled back from an internet pipeline connecting Asia with Europe, activist investor Nelso...
Disney to axe 7,000 jobs
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disney plans to cut 7,000 jobs to reduce costs, the UK competition regulator said Microsoft’s acqu...
Adani scrambles to reassure investors
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell said on Tuesday that reducing inflation would take a “significant...
The jig is up for the Texas two-step
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The UK Treasury and Bank of England are designing a “digital pound”, Google revealed plans on Mo...
Unhedged’s Rob Armstrong on a puzzling US economy
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US donor network led by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch has signalled it will oppose Dona...
Markets’ dove-coloured glasses
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big Tech companies reported earnings lacklustre yesterday, equities markets ended Thursday higher de...
Federal Reserve slows pace of rate rises
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point on W...
Do meme 'stonks' still stink?
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of thousands of UK public sector workers set to walk out on Wednesday in co-ordinated actio...
Renault and Nissan reach a deal to save alliance
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The International Monetary Fund says that global economic growth has proven “surprisingly resilien...
Nelson Peltz versus Disney
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
India’s Adani Group has published an angry rebuttal of allegations of wrongdoing by short seller H...
Nigeria’s $11bn court challenge
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Friday take on rightwing Tory MPs by rejecting calls for big tax c...
Tesla sees a bumpy road ahead
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla reported record revenues last quarter, the Bank of Canada signalled it would pause interest ra...
Microsoft cloud business holds up
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Growth in Microsoft’s cloud computing business slowed further in the latest quarter but still did ...
Germany’s tank dilemma
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bonds issued by China’s highly indebted real estate developers have rebounded sharply over the pas...
A Latin American common currency?
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brazil and Argentina will this week announce that they are starting preparatory work on a common cur...
Netflix's CEO steps down
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reed Hastings is stepping down as chief executive of Netflix, central bankers are making it clear to...
US expected to hit debt ceiling
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US is set to hit the debt ceiling today and Microsoft plans to cut 10,000 jobs to bring down cos...
Beijing’s new tech control strategy
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Goldman Sachs’ profits plunged by two-thirds last quarter while Morgan Stanley reported a 40 per c...
Berlin beats back Big Tech
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen will meet her Chinese counterpart Liu He in Zurich this week, a f...
The FT heads to Davos
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Demand for ‘buy now, pay later’ deals has surged among all age groups in the UK, US regulators a...
Pakistan’s debt crisis
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annual US inflation fell in December to its lowest level in more than a year, and Sweden’s state-o...
Moscow’s military reshuffle
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels is stockpiling drugs and obliging manufacturers to guarantee supplies, and Russian forces a...
Toyota’s EV struggle
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK staffers fired by Twitter claim their dismissals were conducted unlawfully, BioNTech has agreed t...
White House under pressure to expel Bolsonaro
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The White House is facing calls from the US Congress to expel former Brazilian president Jair Bolson...
Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s capital
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’...
Crypto bank’s ‘crisis of confidence’
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The pace of US jobs growth is set to have slowed further in December, and clients pulled $8.1bn in d...
Falling inflation in Europe
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
IMF deputy managing director says the Federal Reserve shouldn’t declare victory against inflation ...
Apple and Tesla start 2023 on the wrong foot
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Downing Street says Britons could struggle to access healthcare this winter, Tesla and Apple shares ...
How did 2% become the magic inflation target?
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Economists say the UK will face one of the worst recessions and weakest recoveries in the G7 in the ...
Bankman-Fried’s $250mn bail
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail is set at $250mn, Wall Street stocks slide after a round of u...
UK childcare in crisis
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Big Tech groups are ditching offices that are part of their European headquarters to cut costs and T...
Bank of Japan stuns markets
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Bank of Japan stunned markets with an unexpected change to its controversial yield curve control...
Wirecard on trial
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US regulators settled a record breaking case against the maker of video game Fortnite, a former Wire...
India ramps up lending to counter China
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
EU member states have reached a deal on the world’s first major carbon border tax, New Delhi has s...
Britain’s nurses launch historic strike
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Global stocks tumbled after a broad group of central banks raised interest rates, and nurses in Engl...
Fed enters a new phase
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve slowed the pace of its interest rate increases, western sanctions are causing a ...
Former FTX chief charged with fraud
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US inflation slowed for the second month in a row, the US has formally charged former FTX chief exec...
Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has been arrested in t...
Spyware maker NSO hopes for a comeback
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental group Greenpeace has started legal proceedings against the UK government to try and bl...
FTC hits pause button on video game deal
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US Federal Trade Commission says it will sue to block Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of video g...
Political turmoil in Peru
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US bond market is signalling that investors expect the Federal Reserve to stay the course in its...
China’s next stage of the pandemic
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks slid and the price of Brent crude touched its lowest level since January, and China’s el...
Could the 4-day work week…work?
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks fell after new data showed the US services sector grew last month, PwC plans to take advan...
The struggle is real for investors in the high-rate era
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
EU and US officials meet today to discuss the effect Washington’s green subsidies plan is having o...
The corporate backlash against net zero
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels is pushing EU member states to agree to a $60 ceiling on global purchases of Russian oil an...
Fed hints at less aggressive rate increase
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell signalled the central bank will start to slow the pace of interest ...
Private equity’s mystery boxes
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
China is enlisting the help of tech giants to reduce its dependence on foreign semiconductor technol...
Why are China’s nationwide protests happening now?
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Europe is importing a record amount of seaborne Russian gas, and Rolls-Royce has successfully tested...
China rocked by protests against ‘zero-Covid’ policies
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zero-Covid protests in Shanghai escalated on Sunday evening as police struggled to disperse large cr...
Martin Wolf: The geopolitical threat to globalisation
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The FT’s chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, discusses why geopolitics could be the biggest ...
Qatar’s bet on the World Cup
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mortgage rates in the UK on five-year fixed deals have dipped below 6 per cent for the first time in...
Bob Iger's back at Disney. But who comes next?
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Austria’s central bank chief is calling for a third-straight 0.75 percentage point interest rate r...
Cracks in the US Treasury bond market
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A report finds that large asset managers are invested in companies allegedly linked to the repressio...
The UK chancellor’s new plan
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s largest cryptocurrency fund has become embroiled in the turmoil swirling around the tr...
Crypto broker Genesis halts withdrawals
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to unveil a massive package of tax rises and spending cuts, crypto ...
Twitter’s ‘collision course’ with EU
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A landmark tech regulation law goes into effect in Europe, Russia targeted Ukraine’s power infrast...
Amazon set for big job cuts
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon is planning to cut about 10,000 jobs, Google got hit with its biggest US privacy penalty, and...
Apple’s bargain with Beijing
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Digital asset exchanges are rushing to reassure clients that their funds are safe as the FTX collaps...
FT Weekend has moved!
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wondering where FT Weekend has gone? We've stopped publishing on the FT News Briefing feed! To subsc...
FTX founder’s mega mea culpa
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks roared ahead on Thursday in their strongest day in more than two and a half years, and FTX...
US midterm elections: what we know so far
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Binance backs out of its deal with FTX, Joe Biden and the Democrats avoided sweeping defeats but sti...
Binance set to buy FTX
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Americans voted in crucial midterm elections yesterday, cryptocurrency exchange Binance agreed to bu...
COP27: South Africa’s tricky shift from coal
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak says Britain and France are in the ‘final stage’ of reaching a dea...
TSMC's chip challenge
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The European Central Bank has clashed with UniCredit over the Italian lender’s plans to return cas...
Climate tech to save the planet: Out of thin air
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Direct air carbon capture - taking carbon dioxide straight out of the air around us - sounds like sc...
FTNB Special: your crash course to the US midterm elections
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the FT News Briefing, listen to our four-part series on the US midterm el...
Coming soon: Will climate tech save the planet?
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The climate crisis threatens the future of the planet. But don’t worry, technology will save us. A...
Germany falls out of love with China
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US labour market appears to be cooling, the Bank of England raised interest rates by 75 basis po...
US midterms countdown: election deniers want your vote
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 75 basis points for the fourth time in a row and warned...
Elon Musk’s juggling act
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates by 0.75 points for the fourth time in a row, and ...
Lula’s comeback, Bolsonaro’s silence
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden calls on US Congress to tax oil companies until they pump more oil, and Renault and Nissan...
Lula makes a comeback, Russia ends Ukraine grain deal
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Moscow’s decision to suspend the Black Sea agreement will lead to fresh spike in prices, experts w...
FT Weekend: The Woman King, with producer Cathy Schulman
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last week you’ll hear FT Weekend on this feed! To subscribe to our own feed wherever y...
FT investigates KPMG Saudi Arabia
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Big tech companies lost nearly $1tn in valuation this week, Credit Suisse announced a radical restru...
US midterms countdown: the GOP courts Hispanic voters
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The International Energy Agency says the world’s fossil fuel consumption will peak at the end of t...
Google earnings fall on lower ad sales
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alphabet reported an unexpectedly severe slowdown in its core search ads business, and the European ...