Friday, November 15

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

Daily News, News & Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The US and China are struggling to complete a ‘phase one’ deal to halt their trade war, former Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein takes aim at US Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, saying that “maybe tribalism is just in her DNA” and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is fighting back against the Trump administration award of the $10bn Jedi military contract to Microsoft. Plus, the FT’s Madhumita Murgia reports on Google’s plan to lock down advertisers’ access to personal user data.

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0:00.0	The UK's energy partner.
0:06.0	Learn more at equinore.
0:10.0	Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.
0:12.0	Today is Friday, November 15th,
0:14.8	and this is your FT news briefing.
0:18.3	Washington and Beijing are struggling
0:20.1	to get a preliminary trade deal across the finish line.
0:23.0	Lloyd Blankvine takes a shot at Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren,
0:28.0	and Jeff Bezos is fighting back against a Trump administration's decision on a $10 billion military contract.
0:35.1	Plus I talk with the F.T.'s Madu Mergia about why Google now says it plans to limit the
0:39.4	access online advertisers have to personal user data.
0:43.0	I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.
0:50.0	Over the past year, the progress on a U.S. China trade deal hasn't been much of a straight march ahead.
0:55.6	It's been more like one step forward, two steps back.
0:59.2	And now Washington and Beijing appear to be struggling as they tried to close a phase one deal.
1:04.6	The FT's world trade editor James Polidi has more.
1:08.5	So the US and China had aimed to reach a so-called mini deal
1:13.6	to sort of pause their trade war by this Sunday,
1:17.7	which is when President She and President Trump
1:20.4	were expected to meet in Chile for the Apex Summit.
1:23.7	That summit was canceled, but both sides
1:26.5	had said that they wanted to keep negotiating
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