Meme ‘stonks’ and the market
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/eb36b605-47d9-465a-91f8-d47a4af45faeTech groups in Taiwan are accused of locking up migrant workers as coronavirus hits the sector...
24 Jun 202110min
Why Instagram is getting filtered out
House prices have set records in the US and parts of Europe, and the artificial intelligence-based drug-discovery platform Insilico has raised more than $255m from investors. Plus, the deputy head of ...
23 Jun 202110min
US student athletes’ Supreme Court victory
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration is under fire after approving a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, a Covid outbreak at a Chinese port has further disrupted global shipping, and the Tokyo ...
22 Jun 20219min
How artificial intelligence is reshaping the world
Reflation trade has been pummelled after the Federal Reserve unexpectedly signalled a shift in its stance on inflation, and, European Central Bank executive Fabio Panetta says the introduction of a di...
21 Jun 202111min
Black Americans’ unease with official embrace of Juneteenth
The premium above super-safe US Treasuries that investors demand to buy risky corporate debt has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade, and tensions between Hong Kong and Taiwan threaten o...
18 Jun 202110min
Federal Reserve signals first rate rise in 2023
Federal Reserve officials expect to start raising US interest rates in 2023, Toshiba’s latest corporate crisis is a scandal over efforts to thwart activist shareholders, and the appointment of 32-year...
17 Jun 20219min
Web founder Tim Berners-Lee auctions off original source code
The Tokyo Olympic Games will need a public bailout of about $800m if spectators are banned, and the end of the interminable EU and US struggle over aircraft subsidies marks a major truce in what seeme...
16 Jun 202110min
When Biden meets Putin
The world’s longest undersea electric cable, between the UK and Norway, is set to be switched on this week, the US Federal Reserve could begin discussions this week about shrinking its $120bn monthly ...
15 Jun 202110min
