FT News Briefing

Can the yield curve still predict recessions?

An inverted yield curve is sending jitters across the US economy, Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu is in hot water over its involvement in the UK Post Office scandal, and new details have emerged over how the SEC’s X account was hacked.  Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/494pd3m" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK Post Office scandal exposes risks of Fujitsu’s hands-off approach</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3HrdCiW" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yield curve adds to mystery over US economy</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3Huxceg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SEC says bitcoin X breach came after phone number was swapped</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, Gavin Kallmann, and Josh Gabert-Doyon. 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/4a859948-2b0f-4c0f-9c7b-1ed64a9768f3" 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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