Investors unimpressed by US bank earnings, Paris and The Hague team up on EU tech, Amazon logistics
France and the Netherlands jointly issued a call for the bloc’s competition authorities to take pre-emptive measures against big tech companies, and investors have been unimpressed by recent US bank e...
15 Okt 20209min
WTO Boeing-Airbus ruling, IMF’s warning, short-sellers target pandemic winners
The EU has been given the green light to hit almost $4bn of US goods with punitive tariffs in retaliation for illegal state aid to Boeing, and the IMF said the coronavirus crisis will wreak “lasting d...
14 Okt 20208min
US equities taking election polling to heart, US banks kick off earnings season, UK lockdowns
US stocks built on last week’s rally with investors assessing US presidential election polls that show a strong lead for former vice-president Joe Biden, and unemployment looks set to hit the UK’s you...
13 Okt 20209min
EU targets Big Tech with ‘hit list’, EM countries call for ambitious debt relief, EU countries on Brexit progress
EU regulators are drawing up a “hit list” of up to 20 large internet companies that will be subject to new and far more stringent rules, and government ministers of poor and indebted nations plead for...
12 Okt 20209min
A new cold war, whiskey in days
Tensions between Washington and Beijing reflect a shift in how America views Asia’s superpower. We'll look at how both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are handling China in the presidential campaign. Plus,...
9 Okt 202010min
Lilly Covid drug, Vatican derivatives, UK mining corruption probe
Eli Lilly, a US drugmaker, has applied for an emergency authorisation of its Covid-19 antibody in the US. According to documents seen by the Financial Times, the Vatican invested donations for the nee...
8 Okt 202011min
US stimulus talks end, Macy’s buys stake in Swedish fintech
Donald Trump abruptly broke off talks with congressional Democrats on a new fiscal stimulus package until after next month’s presidential election, and economists estimate the coronavirus pandemic has...
7 Okt 202010min
Trump returns to White House, a fight over lithium batteries
Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening after three days of hospital treatment for coronavirus, although his doctor warned that the president was not yet “out of the woods”. Plus, t...
6 Okt 202011min
