FT News Briefing

Will Russia lead on an alternative to the dollar?

Tesla shares leapt 22% after Elon Musk predicted an electric vehicle sales rebound, and Russia’s pitch for a US dollar alternative failed to excite Brics leaders. Plus, a major change to the open source technology model could be coming.  Mentioned in this podcast: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b49d53e4-631a-402f-9dc1-d22f708f97fe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tesla shares leap 22% after Elon Musk predicts sales rebound</a> <a href="https://on.ft.com/4dZtRBC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vladimir Putin’s alternative to ‘weaponised’ dollar fails to excite Brics partners</a> <a href="https://on.ft.com/4hg4Ftz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The bill is coming for tech’s open source free lunch</a>  The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. 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/421a01f9-0036-401a-883d-5d3ff29452af" 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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