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Saturday 14 May 2022 : This weekend, Lilah talks to actor Michael Patrick Thornton, who appears in the buzzy new Broadway production of Macbeth. When Michael was...
Friday 13 May 2022 : Norway’s oil fund has slammed “corporate greed” and excessive executive pay, some former Ukrainian officials believe their forces...
Thursday 12 May 2022 : Description: Turkish authorities have raised the pressure on the country’s banks to limit corporate clients’ purchases of foreign...
Wednesday 11 May 2022 : Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would reverse Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump, and all but one of the global investment banks in China...
Tuesday 10 May 2022 : Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess has called for the EU to pursue a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine War for the sake of Europe’s...
Monday 09 May 2022 : Xi Jinping’s renewed commitment to zero-Covid policy rattles investors in China, Africa’s top Covid vaccine plant faces an uncertain...
Sunday 08 May 2022 : In the final episode of this season of Tech Tonic, we ask if the growing tensions between the US and China could split the world into two...
Saturday 07 May 2022 : This week, Lilah interviews Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as Daniels. Their film,...
Friday 06 May 2022 : Wall Street stocks suffered steep declines on Thursday with the Nasdaq’s biggest fall since 2020 and the Bank of England has warned that...
Thursday 05 May 2022 : The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark policy rate by half a percentage point for the first time since 2000, the European Union is...
Wednesday 04 May 2022 : BP recorded its highest quarterly earnings in more than a decade, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, called on Brussels to abandon the...
Tuesday 03 May 2022 : Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York have rejected efforts to form a union, the US Federal Reserve is poised to make its first...
Monday 02 May 2022 : Italy’s tough new approach to Russia marks one of the biggest foreign policy shifts in Europe in years, Germany has called for a phased-in...
Sunday 01 May 2022 : In this episode of Tech Tonic, how a mysterious death in Belgrade prompted Serbia to embrace Chinese surveillance technology, raising...
Saturday 30 April 2022 : This weekend, we think about morality in the age of social media. According to writer Dan Brooks, we're great at pointing out where good is...
Friday 29 April 2022 : The US dollar surged to its highest level in two decades on Thursday, the US economy contracted unexpectedly in the first quarter, Twitter...
Thursday 28 April 2022 : EU leaders accused Moscow of “blackmail” over gas exports, and Spotify tries to distance itself from Netflix after reporting decent...
Wednesday 27 April 2022 : US tech stocks fell to their lowest level in more than a year, the Brexit trade deal has caused a “steep decline” in UK trade with the...
Tuesday 26 April 2022 : EU member states are looking at whether to impose a ceiling on what they would pay for Russian oil as a way to hit Kremlin revenues,...
Monday 25 April 2022 : Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tech to police content online more...
Sunday 24 April 2022 : In the latest episode of this Tech Tonic season about US-China tech rivalry, the FT’s US-China correspondent Demetri Sevastopulo tells the...
Saturday 23 April 2022 : This weekend we’re returning to the first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, from September. Lilah talks to Eleven Madison Park’s...
Friday 22 April 2022 : Elon Musk unveiled a $46.5bn financing package to fund his takeover bid for Twitter, Netflix lost close to 40 per cent of its market value...
Thursday 21 April 2022 : FT correspondents provide insight on the latest developments in Ukraine, why Algeria cannot supply more energy to meet Europe’s demand,...
Wednesday 20 April 2022 : Elon Musk’s $43bn bid to take Twitter private is struggling to draw interest from private equity groups, Netflix shares tumbled on Tuesday...
FT News Briefing
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This weekend, Lilah talks to actor Michael Patrick Thornton, who appears in the buzzy new Broadway production of Macbeth. When Michael was...
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Norway’s oil fund has slammed “corporate greed” and excessive executive pay, some former Ukrainian officials believe their forces...
Ping An calls for HSBC break-up
Description: Turkish authorities have raised the pressure on the country’s banks to limit corporate clients’ purchases of foreign...
Musk would let Trump back on Twitter
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would reverse Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump, and all but one of the global investment banks in China...
Sinn Féin’s historic victory
Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess has called for the EU to pursue a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine War for the sake of Europe’s...
The cost of China’s zero-Covid lockdown
Xi Jinping’s renewed commitment to zero-Covid policy rattles investors in China, Africa’s top Covid vaccine plant faces an uncertain...
US-China Tech Race: The great decoupling
In the final episode of this season of Tech Tonic, we ask if the growing tensions between the US and China could split the world into two...
FT Weekend: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' with Daniels
This week, Lilah interviews Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as Daniels. Their film,...
London’s push to control the British Virgin Islands
Wall Street stocks suffered steep declines on Thursday with the Nasdaq’s biggest fall since 2020 and the Bank of England has warned that...
Markets sing after Federal Reserve raises rates
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark policy rate by half a percentage point for the first time since 2000, the European Union is...
Draghi urges EU to abandon unanimity requirement
BP recorded its highest quarterly earnings in more than a decade, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, called on Brussels to abandon the...
Federal Reserve poised to raise rates a half-percent
Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York have rejected efforts to form a union, the US Federal Reserve is poised to make its first...
Italy’s tough new approach to Russia
Italy’s tough new approach to Russia marks one of the biggest foreign policy shifts in Europe in years, Germany has called for a phased-in...
US-China Tech Race: brave new world
In this episode of Tech Tonic, how a mysterious death in Belgrade prompted Serbia to embrace Chinese surveillance technology, raising...
FT Weekend: Morality in the Twitter era. Plus: China’s language revolution
This weekend, we think about morality in the age of social media. According to writer Dan Brooks, we're great at pointing out where good is...
Yen sinks as dollar rises to 20-year high
The US dollar surged to its highest level in two decades on Thursday, the US economy contracted unexpectedly in the first quarter, Twitter...
Putin’s economic war on Europe
EU leaders accused Moscow of “blackmail” over gas exports, and Spotify tries to distance itself from Netflix after reporting decent...
China’s moves in the South Pacific
US tech stocks fell to their lowest level in more than a year, the Brexit trade deal has caused a “steep decline” in UK trade with the...
Twitter CEO Elon Musk?
EU member states are looking at whether to impose a ceiling on what they would pay for Russian oil as a way to hit Kremlin revenues,...
Emmanuel Macron elected to second term as French president
Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tech to police content online more...
US-China Tech Race: Shock and Awe
In the latest episode of this Tech Tonic season about US-China tech rivalry, the FT’s US-China correspondent Demetri Sevastopulo tells the...
FT Weekend: The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters
This weekend we’re returning to the first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, from September. Lilah talks to Eleven Madison Park’s...
Introducing: the FT Climate Game
Elon Musk unveiled a $46.5bn financing package to fund his takeover bid for Twitter, Netflix lost close to 40 per cent of its market value...
Algeria struggles to meet Europe’s rising demand for gas
FT correspondents provide insight on the latest developments in Ukraine, why Algeria cannot supply more energy to meet Europe’s demand,...
Who will back Elon Musk?
Elon Musk’s $43bn bid to take Twitter private is struggling to draw interest from private equity groups, Netflix shares tumbled on Tuesday...
