FT News Briefing
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FT News Briefing
A rundown of the most important global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Available every weekday morning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Crude retreats but fuel prices stay high
Weakened refining capacity in Russia and the Gulf is a boon to US refiners. Plus, the Trump administration’s decision to revoke legal protections for...
How Ukrainian drone expertise is helping Colombian narcos
Iran said it reached an agreement with Oman on a route through the Strait of Hormuz, US Democrats hope to win control of Congress in the midterm elect...
SpaceX outperforms in debut earnings
SpaceX surpassed analysts’ expectations in its debut earnings report, China is hunting for hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes and power c...
America’s puzzling yen intervention
Novo Nordisk’s CEO checks in on his first year at the helm, and Russia is quietly assembling a "shadow fleet" of ships to circumvent EU sanctions. Plu...
Spain’s migrant crisis reopens deep EU rifts
UK drugmaker AstraZeneca is in talks to combine with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb, and European governments will hold an online meeting to discuss Sp...
JPMorgan walks into another football firestorm
Amazon reported accelerated cloud growth in the quarter to the end of June, and JPMorgan has walked into another football firestorm as it works on a p...
Fed holds rates as inflation fears grow
Meta and Microsoft reported quarterly earnings as investors raised concerns about AI spending, and the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady....
The Big Tech earnings dilemma
Ukraine is shifting its long-range drone campaign to focus on critical Russian infrastructure, and Big Tech companies are facing an AI dilemma as they...
Ares’ big play in private equity
A crucial gauge of risk in holding the debt of companies at the centre of the AI boom has hit a record high, private capital group Ares Management has...
Hike or hold: Investors split ahead of Fed decision
Investors raised their bets the Federal Reserve will raise rates on Wednesday after this month’s jump in oil prices. And, firefighting efforts were bo...
Oil hits $100 and drives global bond sell-off
The US unveiled new tariffs to replace old ones, oil’s jump above $100 deepened a global bond sell-off, and thousands of supporters of the youth-led “...
US oil refineries race against dwindling supply
Tesla reported its first cash burn in more than two years in the second quarter, and US oil refineries are running at full tilt as wars in the Middle...
The US has $13bn in Venezuelan oil money. Where is it?
Ukraine has a new commander-in-chief after days of protests, and FT calculations show the US has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan...
UK chancellor John Healey inherits tricky finances
The US has said it will hit Canada with tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of goods, Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls...
Andy Burnham’s first day
Andy Burnham enters No 10 today as prime minister, the US continued trading fire with Iran over the weekend, and Morgan Stanley has become Wall Street...
The Bethlehem Project: American identity after 250 years
The US celebrated its 250th anniversary this month during a very politically divided era. The FT’s Sonja Hutson went to a block party on Bethlehem, Pe...
Andy Burnham ghosts the UK business community
Netflix’s shares fell more than 8 per cent on Thursday despite as-expected earnings after the streaming giant forecast its worst revenue growth in thr...
Is China’s economic slowdown here to stay?
Energy companies going public are raising money at their fastest pace this century and China’s growth rate is at its lowest in decades, according to t...
The EU’s push to deregulate banks
British teenagers face a midnight curfew on social media platforms, US inflation dipped in June and Wall Street’s top banks brought in $19.3bn in reve...
Dubai wants to bypass Strait of Hormuz
The United Arab Emirates is trying to build a port that will bypass the Strait of Hormuz, and American small-cap companies are soaring after years of...
Citigroup’s ruthless remake
Wall Street banks are set to report their biggest haul from investment banking fees in four and a half years, while Citigroup boss Jane Fraser has rut...
Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers
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For decades, sportspeople have been...
World Cup stirs up colonial past
OpenAI and Google are selling their advanced AI models to Chinese tech giants blacklisted by the Pentagon, and South Korea's SK Hynix is listing in th...
The cost of a broken ceasefire
The US struck Iran for the second night in a row, and the IMF warned that renewed conflict in the Middle East would drive up global inflation. Plus, U...
Marine Le Pen’s risky comeback
US President Donald Trump threatened to remove all American troops from Europe and is reviving his calls to take over Greenland, French far-right lead...
The Big Four’s problems Down Under
Greek shipping companies have made at least $3.8bn transporting Russian oil over the past three years, Turkey wants its booming defence sector to arm...
London’s push for AI sovereignty
The tech industry is having a renaissance in London. It's home to the main foreign outposts for giants such as Google and Meta, as well as their well-...
Germany’s twin crises: football and the economy
The US economy fell short of Wall Street expectations by adding only 57,000 jobs in June, South Koreans are pouring AI stock windfalls into an overhea...
UBS bets on the US
OpenAI has discussed giving a 5 per cent stake to the US government, UBS will start trialling everyday banking services for its American employees wit...
Why Indonesians are souring on Prabowo
Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte told the FT that Europe’s rearmament drive was sustaining 195,000 US defence jobs through $300bn in arms orders, and...
US Supreme Court blocks firing of Fed governor
The US Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, and investors are pivoting from the Magnificent Se...
AI wakes up the sleepy US power sector
The AI boom is fuelling a record surge in dealmaking in the US power and utility industry, and UK prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham will on Monda...
The Bethlehem Project: Steel’s legacy looms large
Bethlehem Steel was the lifeblood of Pennsylvanian town's economy, and a major contributor to American manufacturing during the 20th century. But when...
Jamie Dimon succession race narrows
The race to succeed JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon just got tighter, and the investment chief at insurance group Allianz is warning that t...
European defence stocks face uncertainty
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of obtaining ‘illicit’ access to Claude, and concern is brewing over KNDS’s upcoming initial public offering after Germany s...
Venezuela faces world’s largest debt restructuring
Venezuela is set to take on the largest sovereign debt restructuring in history. Plus, chip stocks led a sell-off on Wall Street, and Nvidia’s AI chip...
What’s next for the UK after Starmer?
Keir Starmer has resigned as British prime minister, private equity executives are borrowing against their future share of profits, and former US Fede...
Starmer on brink of quitting as UK prime minister
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be on his way out of Westminster, and the US and Iran held high-stakes talks in Switzerland to officially end the...
A complicated World Cup for Iran’s diaspora
Labour’s Andy Burnham has won the crucial Makerfield by-election in the UK, a resurgence in the dollar is reversing bets on the currencies of big emer...
Federal Reserve gears up for change
The Federal Reserve has dropped its bias towards lowering rates in the central bank’s first meeting chaired by Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump sai...