FT News Briefing

Private equity’s green thumb

Strong sales at Amazon’s cloud computing division helped the Big Tech giant beat analyst estimates for revenue and profit, private capital is playing a growing role in the green energy transformation, and foreign carmakers are teaming up with Chinese technology groups to compete in the local market.   Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/3xZMuWW" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon’s strong cloud sales help power revenue gains</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3UoDlPj" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Can private equity accelerate the green transition?</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3JGAPPh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeremy Hunt warns FCA against ‘naming and shaming’ business</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/49Yd9AD" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘Everything has changed’: foreign auto groups embrace local technology in China</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/ba73637f-7aa5-4636-9993-7e4edf6481a4" 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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