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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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Can a Mexican cartel stronghold host the World Cup?
SpaceX will go public next week with the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, and India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party is challen...
Why foreign investors love Boston
Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund is swapping foreign CEOs for local ones and Reed Hastings officially steps down from the board of Netflix. Plus, FT-Nikkei...
How Deutsche Bank got its groove back
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that creates a “voluntary framework” for the US to gain early access to cutting-edge AI models, a...
What Berkshire’s life after Buffett looks like
The US is in talks to expand nuclear weapons deployments in Europe, and Anthropic might make its powerful cyber security tool Mythos available outside...
Intel looks to level up in AI race
Intel wants to challenge rivals with a new AI chip, young people are sceptical of artificial intelligence, the inflation shock from the US-Israeli war...
SpaceX IPO ignites an investor frenzy
Washington is nearing a deal to extend its ceasefire with Iran by 60 days, and investors are rushing to gain exposure to SpaceX in a “speculative fren...
How Ukraine’s drones turned the tables
Oil prices fell sharply after Iranian state television broadcast details of a peace proposal, mass drone production has turned the war effort around f...
BP shakes up its leadership … again
Iran accused the US of “flagrant” violations of their ceasefire, BP has ousted its chair Albert Manifold following “serious concerns” over his behavio...
Global birth rates are falling…phones are a big reason why
In more than two-thirds of the world, the average number of children born to each woman has fallen below the “replacement rate”. Employment, home owne...
From “What Next”: How “Tax the Rich” Went Mainstream
The FT News Briefing presents a special episode from Slate's "What Next" podcast. As wealth disparity continues to grow, politicians in New York and C...
Blockbuster IPOs to take Wall Street by storm
The blockbuster listings of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are set to prompt an unprecedented wave of buying and selling, and a court in Ankara has rule...
Trump’s new $1.8bn fund under fire
Nvidia will return more than $80bn to shareholders, and Donald Trump attracted ire this week with the creation of a $1.8bn “anti-weaponisation fund”....
The EU wants a Putin whisperer
EU governments are discussing whether former leaders could represent the bloc in potential negotiations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and rising fuel...
Inside a Lebanese village under Israeli occupation
A California court threw out Elon Musk’s case against Sam Altman and OpenAI, the global bond sell-off rages on, and a $420bn power behemoth was born a...
Are we at the tipping point for global energy supplies?
The cost for companies to circumvent shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is reaching record levels, and the world is bracing for an energy cliff edg...
The Bethlehem Project: Democrats battle over their party’s future
Democrats are looking for a bit of a rebrand after losing the White House and both houses of Congress in 2024. They have an opportunity this November...
What Big Tech wants out of Trump’s China visit
Opponents are lining up to potentially challenge UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will ‘open wider’ for A...
Germany’s far-right boosted by stance against Iran war
The US Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve yesterday, and the Bank of England is set to water down its rules on stab...
UK bond vigilantes ride again
UK gilt investors are weighing in on who they would like to see replace Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and the fund raising for Blue Owl is running...
Gulf dealmaking machine hits the brakes
US President Donald Trump says the Iran ceasefire is on “life support”, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to save his premiership after t...
Starmer fights for political survival
A gas shipment made it through the Strait of Hormuz as European oil majors cash in billions from the US-Israeli war on Iran, airlines across Europe ar...
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis
It’s been a dreadful night for Labour as council seats across the country have turned from red to turquoise. The Conservatives have not fared much bet...
GameStop’s wild bid for eBay
Big Tech groups are expected to generate the smallest amount of cash in more than a decade this year, and investors are dumping Indian assets. Plus, G...
LVMH looks to shrink its luxury empire
US fuel exports have surged to a record level, and hedge funds had their best month since 2020. Plus, Samsung Electronics is locked in a feud with its...
Could the US scrap quarterly reporting?
Global oil reserves plunged at a record pace in April and the SEC said it was proposing to allow public companies to file earnings reports every six m...
Disney’s new CEO faces first challenge
The US and Iran traded fire in the Strait of Hormuz, and Anthropic formed a more than $1.5bn joint venture with Wall Street groups including Blackston...
Global industries squeezed as Iran war enters third month
We tally the impact of war on industries around the globe as the conflict in Iran stretches into its third month. Plus, Britain braces for voters to d...
Introducing The Story of Money: They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?
Introducing a new video podcast from the FT: Does scientific, artistic or political brilliance translate into investing success? It’s a topical questi...
War, inflation and how central banks are handling it all
Apple delivered another quarter of strong sales growth driven by what the tech giant called its “most popular” iPhone model ever, and we explore how s...
Defence stocks drop despite US-Iran war
Meta said it would boost its spending on AI this year, and Jay Powell says he will stay on as a Federal Reserve governor once his term as chair ends....
Life under Iran’s digital blackout
Federal regulators launched a probe into all Disney-owned TV stations after a late-night comedian made a joke about First Lady Melania Trump, and emer...
Private equity deals where the seller is also the buyer
The number of countries cutting energy taxes in response to the Iran war has doubled over the past month, and China blocked Meta’s $2bn purchase of th...
Senior Republican clears path for next Fed chair
Alleged Trump shooter is set to be charged in federal court Monday, Republican Senator Thom Tillis said he will allow confirmation of Fed nominee Kevi...
BP’s major setback
Meta will cut 10% of its staff next month, BP suffered a heavy defeat at its annual shareholder meeting, and the Paramount–Warner Brothers Discovery d...
The AI digital divide
Tesla’s profits rebounded from last year’s lows, Brent crude jumped back above $100 a barrel on Wednesday after Iran’s navy said it seized two commerc...
Senators grill Kevin Warsh in Fed chair hearing
US President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran until talks conclude, and Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh sidestepped accusations...
MPs chastise Starmer over Mandelson scandal
Tim Cook will step down as Apple’s chief executive in September, representatives for US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ held discussions wit...
Brussels’ plan to ease the energy crisis
US President Donald Trump said he’s sending senior officials to Pakistan for new negotiations with Iran, the European Commission will encourage remote...
Bonus: A US shale pioneer on the Middle East war
Global oil markets have faced historic disruption since the Iran war began in February. The FT’s Jamie Smyth speaks with shale pioneer Scott Sheffield...
Fresh challenge for US Treasuries dominance
President Donald Trump said Lebanon and Israel had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, the US Treasury’s status as the world’s lowest-cost dollar borrower i...