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Nov 2024
11m 21s

Ukraine’s plan to win over Trump

Financial Times
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Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ case has been paused, Ukraine has been building on its ‘victory plan’ for his incoming administration and SoftBank reported that it is profitable again. Plus, Wall Street has loaned billions of dollars to a niche group of tech companies based on their possession of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips.


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New York judge delays decision on Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ sentencing

Ukraine seeks to win over Trump with natural resources and troop proposals

SoftBank returns to profit as Indian IPOs boost Vision Fund gains

Wall Street frenzy creates $11bn debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips


The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. 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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