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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, May 10th.

This is your FT news briefing.

US President Donald Trump breaks the silence on escalating tensions with North Korea.

The latest round of US-China trade talks kick off in DC,

and a little-known UK advisory firm has angered Barbados's creditors with the size of its fee.

The firm stands to make about $27 million restructuring the Caribbean Islands debts.

But first, the most hotly anticipated IPO is here.

Uber is set to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange later today, and Shannon Bond

has the details.

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

Uber is the most highly valued private company in Silicon Valley and has been the most

hotly anticipated initial public offering in a year where we're expecting to see

actually quite a few big private tech companies finally go public.

So there's just been a lot of interest and excitement and plus Uber itself I think is a really

divisive but kind of fascinating company that people sort of love to hate and

love to use and feel very conflicted about.

And how is Uber priced its shares?

They priced their shares on Thursday at $45 a piece.

That was near the bottom of the range that they had put out

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