Pressure builds for early elections in Israel
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The supply of equity shares on the market is shrinking, more people in Israel are calling for early elections, and Prague says Russia is mounting cyber attacks on railway systems throughout Europe. Plus, a new plan to give a boost to Africa’s agriculture.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Benny Gantz calls for early elections in Israel
Israelis hold biggest rally against Netanyahu since start of Gaza war
Can Africa one day help feed the world’s growing population?
Global equity supply falls at fastest pace in decades
Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At Aquinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Friday, April 5th, and this is your |
| 0:18.2 | F.T. News briefing. Analysts are wondering why equities are disappearing and calls are getting louder for |
| 0:26.4 | Israel's Prime Minister to call early elections. Plus a Moroccan fertilizer company is betting that Africa can help feed the world. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Sonia Hudson and here's the news you need to start your day. The The supply of equities around the world is shrinking at its quickest pace in more than 25 years. That's because companies are buying back shares faster |
| 1:06.2 | than new ones are coming onto the market. The numbers even shocked the JP Morgan |
| 1:10.8 | analysts who put the data together. Now you'd usually expect a rising stock market |
| 1:16.3 | and relatively strong economy to lead to more equity. The idea being that companies would want to raise funds by selling new pricey shares |
| 1:25.5 | instead of spending money buying them back. So the fact that the opposite is happening |
| 1:30.3 | is a sign that executives don't have a ton of confidence in the market rally or in the |
| 1:34.8 | economy. |
| 1:37.8 | Pressure is building on Israel's Prime Minister to hold early elections. |
| 1:46.8 | The country isn't scheduled to go to the ballot box until 2026, but more people are |
| 1:51.8 | demanding that Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:53.2 | who hold them now. Here to talk to me about it is the F.T's James |
| 1:57.4 | Shatter. Hi James. |
| 1:58.8 | Hi James. Hi, James. |
| 1:59.8 | So what's happened recently that's made more people call for early elections? |
| 2:05.0 | Yes, so this week, Betty Gantz, who is a former general and opposition politician who |
| 2:11.0 | joined Netignerh's war cabinets in the immediate aftermath of Hamas |
| 2:16.0 | Hamas his attack on Israel on October 7th last year. |
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