FT News Briefing

Trump accepts the Republican nomination

Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican party nomination for president. HSBC’s new chief executive, Georges Elhedery, will face a unique set of challenges while transitioning into the role, and the European Central Bank decided to keep interest rates unchanged yesterday. Plus, the FT’s Clive Cookson talks about the revival of the space race. Credit: NASA, BBC, NDTV, Global News Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/3Wt8S4D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donald Trump recounts near death by gunman in speech to Republican convention</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3LwiZPY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Can HSBC’s new chief finish what Noel Quinn started?</a> <a href="https://on.ft.com/3zKtnRv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ECB keeps interest rate at 3.75%</a> <a href="https://on.ft.com/4d3lkh1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What do we gain from going back to the Moon?</a>   The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Ethan Plotkin, Katie McMurran, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. 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/b1de963b-2b44-402f-acc2-1b4a8e5ed0bf" 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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