FT News Briefing

Binance backs out of its deal with FTX, Joe Biden and the Democrats avoided sweeping defeats but still risked losing control of Congress to the Republicans, and the FT’s Rob Armstrong explains why a p...

10 Nov 20229min

Americans voted in crucial midterm elections yesterday, cryptocurrency exchange Binance agreed to buy rival FTX, and TikTok has slashed its worldwide revenue targets for 2022 by at least $2bn.Mentione...

9 Nov 20229min

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak says Britain and France are in the ‘final stage’ of reaching a deal over migrant crossings, and cyber experts are worried about misinformation on Twitter during the US mi...

8 Nov 20228min

The European Central Bank has clashed with UniCredit over the Italian lender’s plans to return cash to shareholders and its failure to leave Russia, the world’s leading semiconductor producer, TSMC, i...

7 Nov 202210min

Direct air carbon capture - taking carbon dioxide straight out of the air around us - sounds like science fiction. In this episode of Tech Tonic Pilita Clark visits Iceland to meet the engineers and s...

6 Nov 202224min

In this special episode of the FT News Briefing, listen to our four-part series on the US midterm elections. We go around the country to learn about some of the key issues on voters' minds, from infla...

5 Nov 202228min

The climate crisis threatens the future of the planet. But don’t worry, technology will save us. At least that’s the message from startups, innovators and investors. Are they right? In a new season of...

4 Nov 20221min

The US labour market appears to be cooling, the Bank of England raised interest rates by 75 basis points, the biggest increase in 30 years, and Russia has rejoined a deal to allow grain exports from U...

4 Nov 202210min