There’s active interest in passive funds
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The US aviation regulator has blocked Boeing from expanding production of its most popular plane, the fight between Poland’s Donald Tusk and Andrzej Duda heats up, a research group forecasts 56% of total US fund assets will be passively managed by 2027, the French government presses the UK to help fill a multibillion-pound hole in nuclear projects, and Israel is creating a buffer zone within Gaza.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Regulator blocks expanded production of Boeing’s 737 Max
Feud between Poland’s Donald Tusk and Andrzej Duda intensifies over presidential pardon
Passive eclipses active in US fund market as assets swell to $13.3tn
French government presses the UK to help fill multi billion-pound hole in nuclear projects
Israel demolishes buildings to create buffer zone within Gaza
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 from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, January 25th, and this is your |
| 0:17.6 | F-T-N-E's briefing. Boeing just got hit with another setback. |
| 0:23.0 | France is asking the UK to bail out some of its nuclear power projects, |
| 0:28.0 | and Donald Tusk is taking on Poland's president. |
| 0:32.0 | Plus everybody just sit back and relax. Passive funds are |
| 0:36.1 | taking over. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said late on Wednesday that it's blocking Boeing |
| 1:00.4 | from expanding production on its 737 max planes. |
| 1:04.4 | The regulator said it won't agree to production requests from Boeing until quality control issues |
| 1:08.7 | are resolved. |
| 1:10.2 | The announcement comes after a door panel of one of its planes blew out in the middle of a flight earlier this month. |
| 1:16.2 | The FAA has already grounded all of Boeing's 737 Max 9 jets. |
| 1:22.0 | The ongoing issues with the Max are a huge problem for Boeing. |
| 1:26.0 | It's the aircraft maker's most popular model and the company had planned on boosting its |
| 1:30.4 | production. |
| 1:32.1 | Boeing share price sank 2% in after hours trading yesterday. |
| 1:36.0 | It's down 14% since the midair blowout. France's electricity operator has run into a huge budget hole for nuclear power projects |
| 1:51.1 | that it's building in Britain. The French government is now asking |
| 1:54.9 | the UK to help fill that multi-billion pound hole and the request isn't expected to |
| 2:00.7 | go over well. The UK promised this week to pump 800 million pounds into one of the projects |
| 2:06.4 | but said it would not put any more money into the other. And to make matters worse, |
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