Wednesday, January 23
FT News Briefing23 Tammi 2019

Wednesday, January 23

The Trump administration turns down an offer from China for preparatory trade talks, IBM records annual revenue growth for the first time since 2011 and pressure mounts on Tory Eurosceptics and the Democratic Unionist party to back Theresa May's Brexit deal. Plus, the FT's Lindsay Fortado tells us why two activist hedge funds have taken an interest in eBay.

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