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Jan 2024
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What’s next for Bitcoin ETFs?

Financial Times
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Poland secures EU concession to limit food exports from Ukraine, Ron DeSantis ends his bid for the White House, investors turn to BlackRock and Fidelity for new crypto products, the US oil and gas industry is struggling to recruit Gen Z workers, and AI dominates Davos.


Mentioned in this podcast:

US bitcoin ETFs pull in $871mn in first three days of trading

The US shale magnate trying to sell oil and gas jobs to Generation Z

The top takeaways from this year’s World Economic Forum

Poland secures EU concession to limit food exports from Ukraine 

Ron DeSantis drops out of White House race and endorses Trump

CREDIT: World Economic Forum


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Zach St. Louis, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com




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