Hey guys, today we're doing a special episode of the FT news briefing.

We're sharing a live conversation I hosted this week in Miami, Florida at the

FT's Investing in America Conference.

At the conference, we revealed which U.S. cities are the friendliest places for foreign investors to park their money.

Last year, Miami topped the list.

This year, Houston, Texas won. For this chat, I was joined by some of my colleagues at the

FT and our sister publication, FDI Intelligence, they pulled back the curtain for me to reveal

how the rankings got done, and I got to say it was a great conversation so I want to share it with you now

Here we go Let me

quickly introduce our guests.

We have Amanda Chu, our U.S. energy correspondent.

She put the list together.

And yeah, why not?

Yeah, why not?

We have Peter Spiegel, our U.S. managing editor,

if you have any problems with the list, please bring the computer.

We have Yacapo de Tony, who is editor for FDI Intelligence, which is our sister publication,

and we have Chris Knight, who is our managing director of

FDI. So we're gonna kick things off with Amanda and basically the question on

everyone's mind is why Houston? Yeah very much, Mark.

I mean, I guess to start off, I'm just going to quickly

paint the picture of the state of foreign direct investment

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