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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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The White House is fighting court rulings that US President Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff scheme is illegal, and a former Goldman Sachs banker was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the 1MDB scandal. Plus, how Wall Street offloaded billions of dollars of debt from Elon Musk’s Twitter deal.
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Court tariffs bombshell should inspire trading partners to defy Trump
Former Goldman Sachs banker sentenced to two years in prison for 1MDB role
How Wall Street offloaded $13bn of debt tied to Elon Musk’s Twitter deal
Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Sonja Hutson, Fiona Symon, Henry Larson and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Michael Lello, and Gavin Kallmann. Blake Maples mixes our show. 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. |
0:32.3 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
0:34.2 | Today is Friday, May 30th, |
0:36.0 | and this is your FT News briefing. |
0:38.5 | U.S. courts have thrown a wrench in Donald Trump's tariff plans, and a former Goldman |
0:43.1 | Sachs banker has been sentenced to prison for his role in a massive scandal. |
0:47.6 | Plus, we'll take a look at how Wall Street offloaded $13 billion of debt tied to Elon Musk's |
0:53.6 | Twitter deal. |
0:55.0 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
1:02.5 | The fate of Donald Trump's trade tariffs are in limbo. |
1:06.0 | The U.S. Court of International Trade unexpectedly ruled this week that President Trump did not have the authority |
1:11.6 | to greenlight his so-called Liberation Day tariffs. Then, less than a day later, a judge in Washington |
1:18.3 | also ruled against them. And then, just a few hours after that, a federal appeals court paused |
1:25.2 | the initial ruling, put the tariffs back in play, and gave |
1:28.7 | each side about a week to respond. Now, I know there's a lot to unpack there, so to help me out |
1:33.8 | is the FT's senior trade writer, Alan Bedey. Hey, Alan. Hey, how you doing? Doing well. So, Alan, |
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