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FT News Briefing

Trump returns to the White House

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Unknown, News & Politics, Daily News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump will become US president for the second time on Monday. Investors pile into a fund that spreads its assets equally across the S&P 500, as concerns about a tech bubble grow. A hostage and prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas is underway. Plus, how El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele became a model for the global far right.  


Mentioned in this podcast:

Donald Trump plans blitz of executive orders for first days in White House 

Investors pour billions into S&P equal weight fund as tech fears rise 

Hamas hands over three Israeli hostages as ceasefire begins 

How El Salvador became a model for the global far right 

Trump-backed memecoin value tops $12bn as crypto industry hopes rise 

Credit: CSPAN


The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Lulu Smyth, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. 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.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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0:00.0

We're Equinor, an energy company searching for better.

0:03.0

Currently, we supply 27% of the UK's gas, 15% of its oil,

0:07.7

and we're playing our part in the UK's energy transition.

0:11.0

Our wind farms power 750,000 homes,

0:14.0

and we expect that to grow to over 7 million.

0:16.5

Last year, we invested 20% of our global growth spend in renewables

0:20.1

and lower carbon solutions.

0:22.0

We plan to increase that to 50% by 2030.

0:25.4

We're an energy company searching for better.

0:28.4

equinore.co.uk.

0:33.7

Good morning from the Financial Times.

0:36.2

Today is Monday, January 20th, and this is your FT News briefing.

0:40.9

Donald Trump becomes U.S. president for the second time later today.

0:44.9

And Wall Street investors are starting to hedge their bets against big tech stocks.

0:50.2

Plus, we take a look at how El Salvador became a model for the far right.

0:55.5

This is security, surfing, and crypto.

0:59.3

What is the not to like?

1:01.0

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

1:20.6

Thank you. Donald Trump will be sworn in today. He'll take the presidential oath of office at noon in Washington.

1:30.0

And he has a busy day ahead. In addition to the ceremony and all the black tie parties, Trump plans to sign a lot of executive orders.

1:34.7

His team has about 100 of them, ready to go for his first few days. In the Oval Office, I will sign a historic slate of executive orders to close our border to illegal aliens and stop the invasion of our country.

1:45.0

Near the top of the list is curbing immigration.

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