FT News Briefing
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FT News Briefing
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Greenland standoff rattles markets
US equities and the dollar fell in response to transatlantic tension over Greenland, and the FT’s Robin Wigglesworth breaks down the idea of Europe le...
China's birth rate tumbles to historic low
China has registered its lowest number of births since records began. European governments weigh up options to bring down the high cost of their state...
EU readies retaliation for Trump’s Greenland threat
As Europe considers retaliation measures to US President Donald Trump’s tariff threat to NATO allies that oppose his Greenland-takeover bid, Denmark s...
China’s state iron ore buyer flexes muscles
The EU is proposing a new way to allow Ukraine to join the bloc, and it was the best year for US investment banks since 2021. Plus, a look into the ir...
Why Japan’s prime minister might call a snap election
US President Donald Trump has not ruled out military action in Iran and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to call a snap general election. P...
London VC’s bet on Revolut pays off
Two former senior executives at the collapsed subprime car lender Tricolor Holdings pleaded not guilty to fraud and financial crime charges, and Micro...
Markets shrug off investigation into Powell
UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti is planning to step down in April 2027, and Paramount threatened a proxy fight in its latest move to force Warner B...
US opens criminal investigation into Fed chair
US federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, and civil unrest continues to threaten the Islamic regim...
Swamp Notes: Why Trump wants to ‘run’ other countries
This is a repeat of an episode published on Swamp Notes, a sister podcast of the FT News Briefing on January 9, 2026. Subscribe to Swamp Notes on Appl...
Iranians protest over economic pain
Glencore and Rio Tinto resume mining megamerger talks, protests in Iran over economic conditions are the largest in years, and the US trade deficit na...
Venezuela’s crumbling oil infrastructure
The US wants to control Venezuelan oil sales ‘indefinitely’ but the ‘catastrophic’ state of the Latin American nation’s crude facilities presents seve...
A wave of repression in Venezuela
Leading asset managers are positioning for a sharp sell-off in US technology stocks, Venezuela’s government has launched a crackdown after the US capt...
The investors eyeing Venezuela’s oil
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to narco trafficking charges, and smaller private investors are eager to invest in Venez...
Trump plans to ‘run’ Venezuela. What now?
US President Donald Trump has warned Venezuela’s defacto leader she must meet America’s demands following Nicolas Maduro’s capture. We explore what Tr...
Predicting 2026: Will the Magnificent 7 tech stocks continue to diverge?
Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett predicted that the Magnificent 7 tech stocks were not going to fall, but they wouldn’t ride a lot higher either...
Predicting 2026: Will Trump and Musk officially reunite?
Europe’s banking industry could shed 10 per cent of its workforce by 2030. Plus, the FT’s US national editor and columnist Edward Luce predicted Ameri...
Predicting 2026: Will Ukraine finally get a peace deal?
The FT’s Europe editor Ben Hall thought there would be a Ukraine peace deal in 2025. Despite lots of back and forth over ceasefire proposals, an agree...
Trump and Zelenskyy tout progress on peace but ‘thorny’ issues remain
US President Donald Trump hosted Ukraine’s leader at Mar-a-Lago for high-stakes peace talks but failed to reach a breakthrough. Plus, FT markets colum...
Unhedged: Markets had an incredible year. Can that continue?
What went right in 2025? What could go wrong in 2026? Recorded for the FT’s digital conference The Global Boardroom, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong ta...
The Rachman Review: Europe’s triple shock: Putin, Trump and Xi
The French pioneer of European integration Jean Monnet believed that Europe would be ‘built in crisis’. The war in Ukraine is putting this theory to t...
Behind the Money: KKR, Bain and private equity’s push into Japan
When international private equity groups first entered Japan at the turn of the 21st century, newspapers criticised them as vulture funds and politici...
Political Fix: Labour's year in review
This is an episode of Political Fix, the FT weekly podcast that takes you into the corridors of Westminster to unwrap, analyse and debate British poli...
Tech Tonic: Defying death
How much do we really know about ageing? For decades, scientists have been trying to understand the biology of the ageing process - what happens to ou...
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Power, plutocracy and political economy
In this final episode of their series for the FT's The Economics Show, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman cons...
Claer Barrett on spending wisely during the holidays
The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year, but it's also the most expensive. Between gifts, food and travel, people can end up spendin...
India’s central bank governor cheers ‘goldilocks’ economy
BP chief executive Murray Auchincloss has said he will step down after less than two years in the role, India’s central bank governor expects the coun...
JPMorgan swaps cash for Treasuries
Investors are snapping up Venezuela’s defaulted debt, JPMorgan Chase has withdrawn almost $350bn in cash from its account at the Federal Reserve since...
EU-Mercosur trade deal hangs in the balance
Shell’s merger chief departed after a bid to acquire rival BP was quashed internally, and the EU’s top trade official warns the bloc would lose global...
Investors hunt for protection against AI debt bust
A terror attack on a Jewish event in Sydney kills more than a dozen people. Plus, investors are increasingly concerned about how much debt is funding...
Disney and OpenAI team up
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Do Kwon is sentenced to 15 years in prison on two counts of fraud, and the Walt Disney Company will allow OpenAI to use it...
Fed cuts rates amid growing division
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point, and Oracle shares fell on Wednesday after it reported disappointing revenues. Plus, there’s...
Australia is first country to ban social media for children
EU countries want to fast-track a decision to indefinitely immobilise up to €210bn in Russian sovereign assets, investors have increased bets that int...
A double bubble for gold and US equities
Paramount has launched a $108bn hostile bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery, US natural gas prices are soaring as the country ships record amounts of the...
Federal Reserve set for divisive final 2025 rate decision
Europe seeks to rally support for Ukraine as US pressure builds, and there’s likely to be plenty of debate ahead of the Federal Reserve’s final rate d...
Big Four maintains stranglehold on UK audits
The Big Four accounting firms maintained their iron grip on auditing the UK’s largest companies last year, the industry watchdog has found. Plus, Japa...
Wall Street frets over Hassett as potential Fed chair
Bond-market investors worry that the leading candidate for Fed chair is too close to US President Donald Trump, while HSBC finally picks its new chair...
AI chatbot race enters crunch phase
Nigel Farage has told donors he expects to do an election deal with the Conservatives, and the race to narrow OpenAI’s dominance in the chatbot race....
Swiss prosecutors file charges against Credit Suisse and UBS
UK pension funds are cutting back their exposure to US equities, and Swiss prosecutors have filed charges against Credit Suisse and its owner UBS over...
Key week for Russia-Ukraine peace talks
Artificial intelligence is threatening starting consultancy salaries, and the push to end Russia’s years-long invasion of Ukraine continues this week....
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Trump’s ‘vibecession’
As President Donald Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his second term in office, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, and Nobe...