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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.
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Bank robberies in Gaza
Hamas-backed militants orchestrate bank heists, the ECB raises alarm over Eurozone debt, Malaysia courts Chinese investment, and Softbank debuts “EmotionCancelling” AI.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Premier Li Qiang’s visit has Malaysia wanting more from China pivot
Armed gangs stage bank heists in Gaza
This episode of FT News Briefing was produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Fiona Symon, Persis Love, Mischa Frankl-Duval. Additional help from Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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Nvidia claims top spot
Nvidia capitalises on investor excitement over artificial intelligence, Japan’s TDK is claiming a breakthrough in materials used in its small solid-state batteries, and Silicon Valley companies are screening their staff for Chinese spying. Plus, the FT’s Saffeya Ahmed unpacks Shein’s tumultuous journey to go public.
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Nvidia vaults past Apple and Microsoft to become world’s most valuable company
Apple supplier TDK claims solid-state battery breakthrough
Behind the Money: The wrinkle in Shein’s IPO plans
Shein switches focus to London after New York IPO stalls
Silicon Valley steps up employee screening over Chinese espionage threat
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Kyra Assibey-Bonsu, Mischa Frankl-Duval, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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Mr OpenAI goes to Washington
French business leaders are warming up to France’s far-right and Dubai is trying to optimise a cluster of unique, abandoned islands. Plus, the FT’s Cristina Criddle explains why OpenAI is expanding its global affairs unit.
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French businesses court Marine Le Pen after taking fright at left’s policies
OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation
Bill Gross seeks to set record by selling stamp collection for up to $20mn
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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Defence sector goes on a hiring spree
Major defence companies are recruiting workers at the fastest rate since the end of the cold war, global leaders were able to reach a consensus on major issues during the G7 summit, and big Chinese companies are turning to the convertible bond market. Plus, investors are flocking to the local currency bonds of one-time emerging market pariahs.
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Chinese companies rush to tap US convertible bond market
Frontier emerging markets lure investors back with high yields
G7 threatens China with further sanctions over Russia war support
Global defence groups hiring at fastest rate in decades amid record orders
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Denise Guerra, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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Martin Wolf and Raghuram Rajan on democracy’s year of peril
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place in more than 50 countries and in many places, populist, illiberal and far-right parties are either growing in support or consolidating gains they have already made. But India, the world’s biggest democracy, bucked the trend with Narendra Modi’s relatively weak election victory in June. In the third of this five-part series, the FT’s renowned economics commentator, Martin Wolf, and Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, discuss the Indian election results and inherent weaknesses of authoritarian styles of government.
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Martin Wolf column: Fascism has changed, but it is not dead
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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Sandra Kanthal. Production help from Sonja Hutson. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Nigel Appleton. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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Swamp Notes: Elections across the Atlantic
Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979 foreshadowed Ronald Reagan’s a year later, and the Brexit vote in 2016 took place just months before Donald Trump’s stunning presidential victory. The FT’s Whitehall editor, Lucy Fisher, and US politics news editor, Derek Brower, join this week’s Swamp Notes to explain why British and American politics often rhyme, and what the phenomenon could mean for upcoming elections in both countries.
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Parallel US and UK elections could bring dangers
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK overtakes Conservatives in new opinion poll
From the Political Fix podcast: “the Tories’ ‘kitchen sink’ manifesto”
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Swamp Notes is produced by Ethan Plotkin, Sonja Hutson, Lauren Fedor and Marc Filippino. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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Customer Reviews
What you need to start your day
A digestible and informative podcast on the British and European perspectives on business and political news that you can’t easily find from my American home. Thank you Marc and the fine staff of contributors and keep up the good work.
Great Takes
Interesting stories and views and keeps it brief which is great.
Mendacious Hyperbole
Recent episode with Wolf and Kagan, where we heard a consensus that Trump was a threat to Democracy, was mendacious hyperbole.
Yes. Trump is inarticulate and lacks gravitas.
But, it is mendacious hyperbole to claim Trump is a threat to Democracy.
They claimed he colluded with Russia. Despite the best efforts of hyper-partisan Democrat Weissmann, there was no evidence found. But Clinton did pay for and use Russian disinformation with the Steele Dossier.
They claimed he would lock up his political opponents. He didn’t. Joe Biden is trying to.
They claimed he would start WW3. He didn’t. Two major geopolitically threatening wars have started under Biden’s watch.
They claimed he would ignore the Constitution. He didn’t. He complained and used fringe legal theories to challenge election results but he didn’t stay 1 second more than the Constitution specified. Biden brags about using extra-Constitutional executive orders to flout SCOTUS rulings.
So sad that we can hear intellectually honest analysis