Markets, elections and AI in 2024
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The FT’s Peter Spiegel, Katie Martin and Elaine Moore preview what could happen in geopolitics, markets and artificial intelligence in 2024.
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning for the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, January 2nd, and this is your |
| 0:16.9 | FT news briefing. We are kicking off the new year with a look at what's going to happen |
| 0:22.0 | in 2024. There are a lot of |
| 0:25.0 | elections happening around the world. Interest rate cuts are coming, probably, and |
| 0:29.7 | artificial intelligence will still be a red hot topic. |
| 0:34.2 | But how are all those things gonna shake out? |
| 0:37.0 | Well, stick around, we'll talk about them. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. markets did a lot of weird things in 2023. The S&P 500 went on an absolute tear in a good way even though interest rates were at a |
| 1:05.2 | 22-year high. Bonds were well yields hit 5% at one point but subsequently |
| 1:11.4 | rallied and investors are geared up for |
| 1:14.5 | Central Banks to lower interest rates. I'm joined now by the F.T.'s markets editor |
| 1:18.7 | Katie Martin to talk about rate cuts and all the other weird stuff that might |
| 1:22.1 | happen in 2024. Hey Katie. |
| 1:25.0 | Hey, how you going? |
| 1:26.0 | I'm doing all right. |
| 1:28.0 | Before we get into 2024, let's start with 2023. |
| 1:31.6 | The big thing going into 2023 was that we were going to get a recession because |
| 1:37.2 | interest rates were so high. It all went wrong. Yeah I know but in the best kind of way I guess I don't know. It went wrong. Yeah I know but in the best kind of way I guess I don't know. It went wrong in a good way so |
| 1:46.5 | the market you know a kind of catch-all term for investors and economists and analysts was |
| 1:52.4 | absolutely as certain as it could possibly be |
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