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FT Person in the News profile from November of Friedrich Merz by @guychazan.bsky.social - the man who will be Germany’s next chancellor, according to exit polls. www.ft.com/content/a799...

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German voting appears to be high..charts here from the FT live blog on the elections www.ft.com/content/b60d...

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This podcast interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner by @gideonrachman.bsky.social and Laura Pitel is genuinely fascinating. It is on the transatlantic relationship and how Trump’s actions towards Russia and Ukraine could mark a turning point www.ft.com/content/cb8e...

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Title race for the Arsenal was unlikely - now very much so. Without a striker, it is more about where we end up

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What Jamie Dimon’s viral leaked recording tells us about banking - column here from @thekrazykobra.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/db2c...

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Top London restaurants are trying to deter “reservation-squatting” and freeloading social-media influencers by imposing deposits and minimum spends - rpt by @joshspero.ft.com @bryce.lol www.ft.com/content/2d39...

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Russia is executing surrendered Ukrainian soldiers. My @financialtimes.com doc with @christopherjm.ft.com and the visual investigations team looks at the evidence that these executions are Russian policy. Watch on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...

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An action plan for the ECB - SocGen chair and former member ECB exec board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi on how the central bank can spur capital markets union www.ft.com/content/86b0...

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Trump has called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left” www.ft.com/content/dc98...

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BlackRock has cancelled meetings with companies in the middle of shareholder battles because it fears that it could violate guidance on investor activism that the SEC issued last week. www.ft.com/content/533f...

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Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over “broken tracks and bad trains”, claiming that "nothing works any more” in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

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The emerging winners in Asia amid the trade wars - column here from Trinh Nguyen on how Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and increasingly India stand to gain www.ft.com/content/d933...

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BYD’s strategy shift is bad news for global automakers - column here from June Yoon on how the company is including advanced driving software as standard/free in cars, an area where other makers had hoped to make their money. This ratchets up the pressure on the industry www.ft.com/content/2bc8...

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More evidence of what a disaster Mifid II was for equity research - its supporters really did not understand the consequences www.ft.com/content/1c78...

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tesla owners having a good time of it at the moment

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Apple's quiet pivot to India: our deep dive into one of global industry's biggest "China + 1" manoeuvres is today's FT Big Read. on.ft.com/3CV6fSe

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Imagine a very big sovereign wealth fund in the US and how a Trump adminstration could use it - that is why the idea of a MAGA SWF should not be dismissed, writes Stephen Jen. I once quoted his Morgan Stanley research in a 2007 read on the new trend of emerging SWFs www.ft.com/content/de28...

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The Trump administration has pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate www.ft.com/content/3f95...

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Mario Draghi FT oped alert: Forget the US — Europe has successfully put tariffs on itself www.ft.com/content/13a8...

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- @elerianm.bsky.social here on the risks to US exceptionalism - the firehose of news and changes out of Washington could make business more cautious on business. www.ft.com/content/1529...

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Rainy old London Town.

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can confirm this piece - wassailing is on the rise, even spotted in Hackney www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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More on David Webb here - he has made a huge contribution to corporate governance in Hong Kong and Asia www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This is very sad. David Webb’s collection of data has been a treasure trove for journalists and HongKongers alike. Thank you, Mr Webb, for all your hard work. Godspeed! webb-site.com/articles/shu...?

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So a company called Tuttle Capital has filed to launch an ETF to invest in stocks it “believes have potential exposure to advanced or ‘reverse-engineered’ alien technology, spurred by disclosures about UFOs and alleged advanced technologies”. There are many gems here www.ft.com/content/7b83...

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Martin Wolf does not mince words here in writing on Elon Musk and the damage he has done to USAID. He makes the case why the US should persist with foreign aid www.ft.com/content/3e47...

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Markets may be underestimating how much inflation will fall this year - Former Fed vice chair Richard Clarida now of Pimco writes in the FT. The impact of tariffs maybe less than many now expect and uncertainty over the Trump agenda may affect growth www.ft.com/content/0e63...

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One potential big story for Europe looming - Could Trump resurrect the idea for the US to buy Nokia or Ericsson? or pressure the companies to move HQ to the US? column here from @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2834...

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Sad day for the extended FT family www.ft.com/content/76e8...

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‘We’ll all have to go vegan’: Wisconsin dairy farmers fret over immigration crackdown - reporting from @guychazan.bsky.social in Buffalo County www.ft.com/content/e61e...

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Paul Murphy’s obit of Polly Peck fraudster Asil Nadir is brilliant www.ft.com/content/62dc...

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Which came first, US aluminum or British aluminium? www.etymonline.com/word/aluminum

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Russell Vought: the man on a ‘divine mission’ to traumatise US bureaucrats www.ft.com/content/2a41...

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Asil Nadir - the disgraced former UK tycoon - has died..here is some background on his saga from his 2012 conviction for theft from Polly Peck, the conglomerate he built up into a multinational spanning electronics, leisure and Del Monte fruit group before its collapse. www.ft.com/content/9795...

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Patrick Jenkins - FT Deputy Editor - here on the case for scaling back the incentives to park money in cash isas www.ft.com/content/81e8...

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Fascinating dive into the winners who bet early on the Trump memecoin launch and huge losses suffered by others who came later. The token was minted about 9am in the morning ET but not announced by Trump until 12 hours later www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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@bhgreeley.bsky.social column here on Trump's sovereign wealth fund plans - it reminds of the time not so long ago when Alan Greenspan was worried US was in danger of paying down its debt completely and accumulating a surplus. www.ft.com/content/568b...

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wow - fantastic Lunch with the FT with American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann by @okr.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b7ec...

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We'd like to invite you to FT Alphaville’s Art of the Chart show. Really! On 27 February we'll be taking over St Bartholomew-the-Great – London's oldest parish church – and displaying a series of charts so wondrous they deserve to be framed and hung in the Louvre. www.ft.com/content/a970...

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You’ll be shocked - shocked! - that the memecoin world is full of absolute chancers. (By @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social)

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