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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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India is set to reach a record year in initial public offerings and Big Pharma is facing a wave of patent expiration dates. Plus, Meta goes to trial over who to hold accountable for corporate scandals.
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India on track for record IPO year
The looming ‘patent cliff’ facing Big Pharma
Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Sonja Hutson, Katya Kumcova, Henry Larson and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Kelly Garry, and Michael Lello. Our acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. Our intern is Michaela Seah. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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0:32.2 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
0:34.3 | Today is Friday, July 11th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
0:38.6 | India is having an IPO boom, and META heads to court next week for an unusual trial. |
0:46.5 | Plus, the pharmaceutical industry is speeding towards something called a patent cliff. |
0:51.1 | We'll tell you what that means for the sector. |
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1:05.5 | India now has the world's biggest initial public offering market outside the U.S. |
1:10.6 | The amount raised in primary |
1:12.5 | public flotation so far this year hit $6.7 billion, and a few highly anticipated listings |
1:18.9 | are expected to push India past the $21 billion mark that was raised last year. All this success |
1:25.5 | comes on the back of India's interest rate cuts and a lot of demand for |
1:29.3 | equities from domestic investors. But there's a bit of a hang-up. New Delhi has not cut a trade deal |
1:35.8 | with Washington yet, and U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening the country with more tariffs, |
1:40.7 | so investors are a bit cautious about calling this a bull market. |
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