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Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, January 6th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

The Federal Reserve released minutes from its latest meeting in tech stocks nose-dived.

One of Germany's biggest utilities has turned to the government to get through a cash crunch

and on this day last year a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US capital.

Corporate America quickly condemned the attack, so what have companies done since then?

They've decided that they'd rather come out and support democracy anyway,

even if that means taking some heat because they feel it's going to put them on the right side

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

The Fed may need to raise interest rates sooner or at a faster pace than officials initially

expected, as according to minutes from December's Fed meeting. They were released yesterday

and also show officials are fully on board with a faster scaleback of the Central Bank's asset

purchase program. That would give the Fed greater flexibility to raise interest rates this year.

After the minutes came out, there was a powerful sell-off in tech stocks,

the Nasdaq plunged more than 3%, the S&P 500 ended the day down nearly 2%.

But as investors sold off tech, they've been moving into banks, industrial groups,

and energy producers, companies whose fortunes are linked to an economic recovery.

European power companies are struggling amid the ongoing energy crisis due in part to a slowdown

in gas supplies from Russia. Yesterday, one of Germany's biggest utilities,

Uniper, said it was forced to seek 10 billion euros of extra financing,

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