EU travel bans, US stimulus, the City after Brexit
Several EU countries have banned travel from the UK as scientists identify a new strain of Covid that is 70 percent more transmissable, in the US, lawmakers reached a deal on Sunday night over a new r...
21 Dec 20208min
Google hit with another antitrust case, Brexit fears lead to stockpiling, Fed stress tests
Dozens of states and territories have launched the first US antitrust challenge to Google’s core search engine, and a surge of stockpiling by UK companies before the end of the Brexit transition perio...
18 Dec 202010min
Fed to extend debt purchases, US small businesses struggle, Robinhood hit with legal complaint
The US central bank says it will keep buying at least $120bn of debt a month until “substantial further progress has been made” in the recovery, US regulators have hit Luckin Coffee with a $180m pena...
17 Dec 20208min
Spanish companies vie for EU recovery aid, UK nuclear plans
Spanish blue-chips have positioned themselves for tens of billions of euros in EU coronavirus aid, the UK is drawing up plans to turn London into a rival to Singapore as a hub for shipping companies, ...
16 Dec 202010min
SolarWinds software hijacked, Electoral College confirms Biden, Federal Reserve meeting preview
Presidential electors confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US election, and the Federal Reserve is poised to issue new guidance extending its emergency bond-buying programme. Plus, the FT’s H...
15 Dec 20209min
Brexit talks get reenergized, US Covid-19 vaccine rollout, eurozone banks’ dividends
US doctors could administer the first authorised coronavirus shot as soon as today, an EY anti-fraud team warned in 2018 that “red-flag indicators” at Wirecard pointed to potential accounting manipula...
14 Dec 202010min
Johnson says prepare for no-deal Brexit, Airbnb IPO, EU’s threat to Big Tech
Boris Johnson has warned Britain to prepare for a no-deal Brexit, and Airbnb shares more than doubled on their first day of trading on Thursday. Plus, the FT’s Brussels correspondent, Javier Espinoza,...
11 Dec 202010min
Deadline set for Brexit talks, Facebook hit with antitrust lawsuits, DoorDash floats
Boris Johnson and the EU have set a Sunday deadline for a “firm decision” on the fate of their future-relationship negotiations, the US Federal Trade Commission and 46 states have brought antitrust ca...
10 Dec 20209min
