Southern European bond markets make a comeback
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Israel has launched a strike against Iran, Argentina’s month-on-month inflation rate has fallen below 2 per cent, and Italian, Spanish and Greek sovereign bonds have rallied. Plus, investigators in India are looking into a fatal Boeing 787 crash and the US dollar sank to a three-year low.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Israel strikes Iran and braces for retaliation
Dollar sinks to three-year low on Trump tariff threat
Italy, Greece and Spain emerge as winners in bond market anxiety
More than 240 dead after Air India flight to London crashes
Milei brings Argentina’s monthly inflation below 2% for first time since 2020
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Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Fiona Symon, Henry Larson, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Eli Meixler, Kelly Garry, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our intern is Michaela Seah. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s acting co-head of audio. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | We're Equinor, an energy company searching for better. Currently, we supply 27% of the UK's gas, |
| 0:07.0 | 15% of its oil, and we're playing our part in the UK's energy transition. In 2023, we invested |
| 0:14.1 | 20% of our global gross spend in renewables and lower carbon solutions. Today, our wind farms power |
| 0:20.0 | 750,000 homes, |
| 0:22.0 | and we expect this to grow to over 7 million UK households. |
| 0:25.7 | We're an energy company searching for better. |
| 0:28.2 | Equinore.co.uk. |
| 0:32.5 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:34.5 | Today is Friday, June 13th, And this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:39.1 | Israel launched a strike against Iran, and sovereign bonds are rallying in some unexpected places. |
| 0:45.6 | Plus, we hate to be a broken record, but the dollar is down again. Is the slump really that |
| 0:51.4 | big of a deal, though? To anybody who believes this is the end of U.S. exceptionalism, |
| 0:55.8 | there's some reason to believe that that is overhyped. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:10.8 | Israel launched a strike against Iran early Friday morning local time. |
| 1:15.6 | The move dramatically escalates tensions in the Middle East. |
| 1:19.3 | Israel is now bracing for a counterattack. |
| 1:22.4 | Now, we're recording this late Thursday night in Washington, so things may have changed by the time you're listening. |
| 1:27.7 | The attack by Israel comes after months of hostility over Iran's nuclear program. |
| 1:33.0 | The board of the UN Atomic Watchdog said yesterday that Iran had broken its non-proliferation |
| 1:38.0 | agreement. The U.S. said it was not involved and did not assist Israel in the attack. |
| 1:44.4 | Israel's strike on Iran said oil prices soaring, the international benchmark Brent Crude |
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