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FT News Briefing

Thursday, July 25

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Former special counsel Robert Mueller warns of Russian interference in the 2020 US election during a day of hearings in Washington, Facebook reveals that the US Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into the company, Tesla posts deeper than expected losses as its profit margins fall and UK prime minister Boris Johnson vows to deliver Brexit in 99 days. 

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0:00.0

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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

0:12.0

Today is Thursday, July 25th. Good morning from the Newsroom of the Financial Times.

0:12.7

Today is Thursday, July 25th, and this is your FT news briefing.

0:19.0

During nearly seven hours in front of members of the US Congress on Wednesday,

0:23.0

former Special Counsel Robert Mueller

0:25.0

failed to give either Democrats or Republicans

0:28.0

the definitive answers they were looking for.

0:30.0

But he did warn about the dangers of future election tampering.

0:34.1

Over the course of my career I have seen a number of challenges to our democracy.

0:38.9

The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious.

0:43.7

Meanwhile Facebook revealed the US Federal Trade Commission had launched a formal antitrust

0:48.5

investigation into the social media company.

0:51.2

Just hours after it agreed to a $5 billion fine with the same agency over privacy

0:56.8

violations.

0:57.8

This is the largest fine in the FTC's history, but there are some on the FTC that don't think it goes far enough.

1:04.7

Plus Tesla posted deeper than expected losses in its latest quarter, and in his first day as

1:10.6

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to leave the EU in 99 days.

1:15.6

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

1:20.3

When it comes to his 400 day.

1:23.7

When it comes to his 448 page report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election,

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