Against the clock: Gaza peace talks
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Israel continued to pound Gaza, even as ceasefire negotiations began in Qatar. The familiar dynamic will soon be interrupted by a new American administration. Our analysis shows that Nordic firms have markedly better fundamentals than the European average; we examine what’s behind all that success (10:18). And our series The World Ahead considers how democracy will fare in Asia in 2025 (18:37).
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| 0:48.9 | The Economist |
| 0:50.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:01.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:14.6 | There's just something about companies from the Nordic countries. Sure, there are the biggies like IKEA, but across the board, |
| 1:18.6 | Nordic firms' margins are bigger and their debt piles smaller. |
| 1:22.6 | Question is, can it last? |
| 1:26.6 | And the next in our series, The Ahead considers how democracy will fare in Asia in the coming year. |
| 1:34.3 | There are some good signs and some bad, but one part of the region looks particularly worrisome. First up, though. |
| 1:52.0 | Another series of peace talks began in Qatar over the weekend, |
| 2:00.0 | but on the ground in Gaza, you'd hardly |
| 2:02.2 | know that peace was on anyone's mind. |
| 2:09.6 | Israel's military struck more than a hundred of what it called terror targets, saying they |
| 2:14.6 | eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists. |
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