Israel’s war strategy strains relations with US
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
OpenAI filed to go public, Wall Street stocks rebounded on Monday, and top BP investors and former executives are concerned the UK oil major may lose momentum in its restructuring plan. Plus, Israel’s strikes on Lebanon are putting the US between a rock and a hard place.
Mentioned in this podcast:
OpenAI files to go public in blockbuster listing
Wall Street stocks rebound after AI-led rout
BP investors push for clarity over ousting of chair
Israel attacks Beirut days after Trump’s showdown with Netanyahu
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu replay 1982 Beirut stand-off
Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Trump pardon
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning for the Financial Times. |
| 0:04.3 | Today is Tuesday, June 9th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:08.8 | OpenAI is officially going public, and U.S. investors are getting the rate-increase hebi-gibes. |
| 0:15.3 | Plus, the White House is trying to figure out how to handle Israel's recent strikes on Lebanon. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:31.3 | Open AI confidentially filed for an initial public offering yesterday. |
| 0:35.8 | The chat GPT maker will likely be valued at more than |
| 0:38.9 | a trillion dollars. This comes just a week after OpenAI's rival Anthropic filed its own |
| 0:45.0 | IPO paperwork, and just days before SpaceX, Elon Musk's company, is set to go public. But OpenAI's |
| 0:52.6 | IPO might not come so quickly. The company said in a statement |
| 0:56.5 | that it hadn't decided on timing yet, and that it, quote, may be a while because there are |
| 1:01.6 | things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. OpenAI's potential listing |
| 1:06.8 | will test the appetite that investors have for a company with unprecedented revenue growth, |
| 1:11.7 | but also huge losses. |
| 1:20.5 | Okay, we're going to zoom out and talk about the U.S. equities market as a whole now. |
| 1:26.1 | Wall Street had a slight change of heart yesterday. U.S. equities rebounded a whole now. Wall Street had a slight change of heart yesterday. U.S. |
| 1:29.1 | equities rebounded a bit after a rough day on Friday for AI-related stocks. The tech-heavy |
| 1:34.5 | NASDAQ rose nearly 1% on Monday after it fell more than 4% on Friday, and all this volatility is |
| 1:40.7 | happening during an important week for the market, like I just mentioned. OpenAI |
| 1:44.9 | filed IPO paperwork and SpaceX is expected to list on Friday in what could be the biggest |
| 1:50.4 | initial public offering of all time. Here to tell us more is Robert Armstrong. He's the FTs |
| 1:55.6 | U.S. Financial Commentator and host of the Unhaged Podcast. He also writes the unhaged newsletter. |
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