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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Artificial intimacy: How to fall in love with AI
Introducing Artificial intimacy from Tech Tonic. For the next episodes in this season go to the Tech Tonic feed.
Calder Quinn has fallen into a...
US-Iran war boosts Russian oil revenues
Gulf oil producers have lost billions of dollars in energy revenues since the start of the US-Iran war, but there is one country benefiting: Russia. I...
Hold on — tech stocks are a safe haven now?
The International Energy Agency has launched the largest release of strategic oil reserves in its history, investors have sought shelter from the turm...
Corporate America grapples with huge oil price swings
Oracle’s shares climbed 9 per cent on Tuesday after the database group posted better than expected earnings, and we discuss how American businesses ar...
The US is leaving an Iranian island untouched
The price of oil fell sharply, and we’ll take a look at why the US and Israel are avoiding an attack on Iran’s Kharg Island. Plus, the FT’s George Ham...
Oil price surge risks upending global economy
Iran names Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the new supreme leader. Plus, global central bankers are eying the jump in crude prices...
Iran war’s global energy impact
As insurance costs rocket for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Asian countries brace for an energy shock. The rapid expansion of American-owned data...
Khamenei’s son is frontrunner to be Iran’s supreme leader
Israel expects war against Iran to last weeks and Ayatollah Khamenei’s son emerges as a leading candidate for supreme leader. Plus, the Federal Reserv...
Iran crisis sends European gas prices soaring
Gas prices have soared on the back of the war in the Middle East, and US president Donald Trump criticised some European nations for not being helpful...
Gulf states caught in the middle of US-Iran conflict
Investors turned to gold and the US dollar in the wake of the Iran conflict, and Gulf states are panicking as Iran targets them in retaliatory strikes...
War in Iran: What comes next?
The world is reeling after the US and Israel struck Iran over the weekend. The FT’s Najmeh Bozorgmehr details the situation on the ground in Tehran. T...
AI turns to a new type of lending
Paramount Skydance is poised to triumph in its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery after Netflix said it would not boost its offer, tech companies are in...
How Deutsche Bank wooed Jeffrey Epstein
Nvidia beat Wall Street’s estimates on Wednesday as the company continued to benefit from the boom in AI infrastructure, and HSBC is on track to deliv...
European investment banks’ killer year
US President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address last night, Europe’s largest investment banks delivered their highest trading reven...
The war in Ukraine, four years later
US software stocks were hit with a fresh burst of selling on Monday as investors fretted that AI will upend the industry, and German Chancellor Friedr...
The fallout of Trump’s tariff setback at the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Donald Trump’s use of emergency tariff powers is raising questions about existing trade deals...
Bonus: Greenhouse’s Daniel Chait on standing out in a tough job market
Daniel Chait is the CEO of Greenhouse, a hiring platform. He told us his tips for hiring managers, a couple of unethical uses of AI in hiring and whet...
The great graduate job drought
Donald Trump says the next 10 days will decide if the US strikes Iran or does a deal with the Islamic republic. Plus, the FT’s Anjli Raval explains ju...
Can bankers be fired for demanding sleep?
JPMorgan Chase is in talks to provide banking services to US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, and investors have warned that loosening the UK’...
Warner Bros tells Paramount to make an offer it can’t refuse
Meta has agreed to spend billions of dollars on millions of Nvidia’s chips, and Warner Bros Discovery has reopened sale talks with Paramount. Plus, Ch...
Orbán draws US support ahead of Hungary’s election
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lashed out at Ukraine at a meeting with US secretary of state Marco Rubio in Budapest. Fund managers are betting...
What’s with Wall Street’s weird selloffs?
Cross-border EU banking deals reached their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis, and regulation reversals are hitting global electric-vehicl...
Introducing 'The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Pleasure'
It’s the most watched business in the world. And the least understood. Streamed by millions every day, porn is everywhere. It shapes our culture, our ...
Private equity’s workaround to buy law firms
The Trump administration plans to roll back some tariffs, Schroders agrees to a US takeover, and Americans paid 90 per cent of the cost of US Presiden...
A wacky US jobs report
The US economy added 130,000 jobs in January, beating market expectations, and documents appear to contradict testimony Jes Staley gave about his invo...
Should BP get more credit for its turnaround effort?
US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick said he visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island with his family in late 2012, Cuba is struggling under the US fuel embar...
Novo Nordisk hits back at copycat drugs
Gilts rebounded from earlier losses on Monday afternoon, and Novo Nordisk is suing US telehealth company Hims & Hers over ‘knock-off’ versions of its...
Pressure mounts on Starmer even as top aide resigns
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff resigned amid controversy over the Mandelson scandal, and Japan’s conservative governing party hav...
A crunchy week for chipmakers
Amazon’s new AI spending blitz sent shares tumbling, chipmakers got swept up in a wider tech equities sell-off, Sir Keir Starmer has apologised to the...
Jeffrey Epstein’s web of influence
Google said it plans to spend at least $55bn more on capital expenditure this year than Wall Street had forecast, US tech stocks were hit by a fresh w...
The Muskverse enters a new era
US tech stocks fell on Tuesday over AI concerns, Elon Musk is charting a new path for his “Muskverse” of companies, and the US military shot down an I...
Who will be Disney’s next CEO?
France has adopted a deficit-cutting budget for 2026 after months of political wrangling, and the FT’s Christopher Grimes tells us about the front run...
What would Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve look like?
Europe’s largest oil companies are poised to curb share buybacks, and Kevin Warsh’s nomination to Fed chair could spark a rethink of how America’s cen...
Blackstone lines up huge IPO pipeline
Apple reported a blockbuster rise in revenue last quarter, and Blackstone is preparing to take a series of long-held investments public. Plus, Canada’...
Investors love heavy metal
Tesla on Wednesday reported its first-ever fall in annual revenue, Donald Trump has warned Iran that “time is running out” to reach a deal to avert US...
US health insurer stocks call in sick
US health insurance stocks plunged yesterday, and New Delhi and Brussels have agreed a trade deal that will eliminate up to €4bn of tariffs on EU expo...
US and Japan flirt with joint currency intervention
The Trump administration has linked security guarantees for Ukraine to Kyiv ceding the Donbas region to Russia, and there’s speculation that the US an...
Trump faces backlash on immigration crackdown after shooting
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agency faces growing backlash after federal agents fatally shot a second protester in two weeks, an...
Trump’s divisive 'Board of Peace’
Intel shares slide 12 per cent as supply constraints limit growth, and Trump’s “Board of Peace” is dividing the US’s allies. Plus, Iran’s government i...
Supreme Court appears sceptical over Fed firing
US President Donald Trump has dropped his tariff threat on Greenland, and the FT’s Derek Brower explains how Trump has navigated the World Economic Fo...