FT News Briefing

An historic prisoner swap

Investors were not happy with Amazon’s earnings report and Russia agreed to a historic prisoner swap with western countries. Plus, the FT’s Tommy Stubbington discusses how markets might react to a week of important central bank interest rate decisions.   Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/3YAeYBA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon earnings jump on cloud computing strength but margins narrow</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3SC8IWj" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A momentous week for central banks</a> <a href="https://on.ft.com/3WscoLn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US journalist Evan Gershkovich released in Russia prisoner swap</a>  The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Ethan Plotkin, 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/a10da809-9ae4-4982-a9b9-d12b7d540741" 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.

A rundown of the most important global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Available every weekday morning. 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.