FirstFT: Banks offload Twitter debt

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  Wall Street banks offload $5.5bn in debt linked to Musk’s Twitter takeover

  Deal will allow lenders to exit one of the toughest merger-finance transactions in recent years
  
  Financial Times - 14h

• Investors wade into bank debt as tariffs bite and key bank regulator is replaced

  Bank bond spreads against U.S. Treasurys widened and money flowed into most debt issued by major banks on Monday, in a sign that Wall Street is wading into the sector on the heels of President ...
  
  MarketWatch - 2d

• Remember the U.K. debt crisis under Liz Truss? Bank of England now has a formal process to handle it.

  The Bank of England on Tuesday announced a new emergency measure to deal with debt-market instability like that seen during Liz Truss’s brief tenure as prime minister in 2022.
  
  MarketWatch - Jan. 28
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  Investors offloaded record volume of private equity stakes in 2024

  Booming secondary market as pension funds and buyout groups seek alternative ways to cash out
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 27

• UK banks clash with BoE over rules on loss-absorbing debt

  Lenders warn rules will harm City’s competitiveness and impose ‘significant costs’ on the sector
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 27

• FirstFT: Netanyahu accuses Hamas of backtracking

  Also in today’s newsletter, Biden warns of ‘oligarchy’ in America, and Wall Street banks make bumper profits
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 16

• FirstFT: The hottest year on record

  Also in today’s newsletter, the resurrection of Andersen Consulting, and hiding savings from a significant other
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 10

More from Financial Times

• Labour cannot afford to look like the status quo party

  Keir Starmer’s style is too decorous to be seen as insurgent but that’s what the political moment calls for
  
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• Trump’s trade war adds to ‘clear decoupling’ on central bank rate cuts

  Bank of England is expected to follow Eurozone and Canadian counterparts by cutting while Federal Reserve holds
  
  Financial Times - 1h

• Pernod Ricard cuts sales outlook on tariff uncertainty

  French spirits group hit by slump in Chinese demand for cognac following anti-dumping measures
  
  Financial Times - 1h

• ‘Self-inflicted wound’: Trump’s tariff chaos threatens US energy ambitions

  Higher costs from tariffs threaten the president’s goal of bolstering domestic manufacturing
  
  Financial Times - 1h

• Looking at Women Looking at War — a chronicle cruelly cut short by Putin’s invasion

  A Russian missile strike killed Ukrainian writer and war-crimes investigator Victoria Amelina, leaving her unfinished diaries as a poignant tribute to what might have been
  
  Financial Times - 1h

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  Order bans trans athletes from women’s sports as Trump repeats wish to control Gaza – US politics live

  ‘Gaza Strip would be turned over the US by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,’ says president on social media. At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Donald Trump alluded to possible ...
  
  The Guardian - 8m
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  India v England: first men’s cricket one-day international – live

  Over-by-over updates, series opener starts 8am GMT Sri Lanka v Australia – live | Email James your thoughts 4th over: England 17-0 (Salt 8, Duckett 9) . A maiden. Harshit finds a better ...
  
  The Guardian - 9m
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  After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee

  A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering. Now she’s an opera . Yet another ...
  
  The Guardian - 9m
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  After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee

  A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering. Now she’s an opera . Yet another ...
  
  The Guardian - 9m
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  The greatest sport-pop relationship? Not Taylor and Travis but the Super Bowl half-time show | Emma John

  The rest of the world will look on in envy on Sunday as the US blends sport and music in a fashion no one else can match. If US high school romcoms have taught us anything, it’s that jocks don’t ...
  
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