Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, January 21st.

This is your FT news briefing.

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.

And corporate America tells him he can have everything he wants.

Europe's top official for digital policy

talks to us about the EU's landmark proposal

to regulate big tech. When you do business and you're successful,

well we will applaud you, but with success and strength and power

also comes responsibility.

And the latest quarterly earnings showed the top U.S. banks are in pretty good shape.

But what does that mean for the rest of the economy?

We'll take a closer look.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Joe Biden's inauguration speech covered many of the things he wants to tackle over the next four years,

but he zeroed in on one goal in particular.

To restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words the most elusive of all things in a

democracy, unity. The heavily guarded celebration had no security issues despite concerns stemming from the attack on the capital two weeks ago.

The major U.S. stock indices ended the trading day higher, buoyed by hopes for Biden's stimulus plan, and American business leaders have backed the

new president.

But as the F.T.'s U.S. business editor Andrew Edgcliffe Johnson reports, executives

are also signaling areas where they won't give in.

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