FT News Briefing

Biden and Xi meet in San Francisco

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will hold a high-profile summit in San Francisco today, US inflation fell more than expected to 3.2 per cent in October, and the war in Ukraine is doing serious damage to Russia’s labour market.  Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/46ey4NV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Biden and Xi meet in bid to stabilise relations between superpowers</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/46dm53o" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US stocks and bonds jump after inflation falls to 3.2%</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3GiSLOt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russia’s war economy leaves businesses starved of labour</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3GiSM4Z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time</a> The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by 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. <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/f3e99937-b48d-429d-bd9c-0355b09703a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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