Airbnb IPO pricing, EU squeezes UK in Brexit talks, Brazil's economy during the pandemic
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Airbnb disclosed on Tuesday that it could raise as much as $2.5bn in its initial public offering, and Brussels is still holding back on granting Britain a whole collection of Brexit rights and regulatory waivers. Plus, the FT’s Latin America editor, Michael Stott, explains why Jair Bolsonaro’s monthly subsidy to Brazilians is a double-edged sword.
Airbnb looks to raise up to $2.5bn in IPO
ft.com/content/c5450812-c45d-4833-a99f-22a390e5d3e4
EU keeps UK guessing on post-Brexit rights
ft.com/content/e7c12053-c9d7-42c8-965f-731257cde644?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:01.7 | Today is Wednesday, December 2nd. |
| 0:03.8 | And this is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:08.4 | AirB&B gives potential investors a clearer picture of its IPO plans. |
| 0:12.6 | And when it comes to Brexit talks, the EU is keeping the UK on a short leash. |
| 0:17.3 | You'll get that pun a little later. |
| 0:18.7 | Plus Brazil's president has made himself very popular with monthly subsidies for a third of the population |
| 0:25.2 | but is this move economically sustainable we'll take a look I'm Mark Filipino and here's |
| 0:31.8 | the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:34.0 | There was quite a bit of tech news on Tuesday. |
| 0:40.0 | Salesforce and Slack shook hands on a deal. There was quite a bit of tech news on Tuesday. |
| 0:43.0 | Salesforce and Slack shook hands on a deal. |
| 0:45.4 | The Cloud Software Company bought the messaging app for nearly $28 billion. |
| 0:50.6 | The cash in stock deal is the largest in the cloud software industry. |
| 0:54.0 | It even beat Microsoft's takeover of LinkedIn four years ago. |
| 0:58.0 | And then there was an update on Airbnb's IPO. |
| 1:01.0 | The company could raise as much as 2.5 billion dollars in its initial |
| 1:05.2 | public offering. The price of a share could be between 44 and 50 dollars each and will |
| 1:10.0 | likely see Airbnb on the stock market before Christmas. Here to give us a little more context is the |
| 1:15.5 | F.T's venture capital correspondent Miles Krupa. Miles, how did the pandemic affect |
| 1:20.8 | Airbnb's fundraising goals. |
| 1:23.0 | AirB&B is going a bit traditional actually by raising money in an IPO. |
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