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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Today is Thursday

November 8th and this is your FT news briefing. Today the FT's Courtney

Weaver brings us up to speed on the major changes at the U.S. Department of Justice

that happened yesterday, all in the aftermath of the U.S. midterm elections.

We'll take a look at why the investigation into ties between Donald Trump's

2016 presidential campaign and Russia might be in danger.

But before we get to that, we'll be looking at quarterly results from U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm,

a new call for EU regulators to investigate several data brokers, and the

2018 class of partners at Goldman Sachs.

I'm Eric Krupky, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Qualcomm shares fell 3.5% in after hours trading on Wednesday. This is the company that has supplied Apple with chips for the iPhone.

Qualcomm warned that the revenues from the current quarter could be lower than expected.

The holiday shopping season is usually an important one for smartphone sales, and for the company supplying parts to those phones.

But Qualcomm's ongoing battle with Apple over patent royalties is expected to put a

damper on earnings. The company also blamed weaker than usual sales in China for some of the expected drop, even though mobile sales were strong in China last quarter.

And a campaign group called Privacy International has filed a series of complaints against several data brokers, credit rating agencies, and ad tech companies.

The complaints were filed with data protection authorities in France, Ireland, and the UK.

The group is asking European regulators to investigate whether or not they're breaching the EU's new data protection laws.

Software Giant Oracle and credit rating agencies Experian and Equifax

are some of the companies targeted by the complaint. The companies say they anonymize data and

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