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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, September 10th. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, September 10th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Attorneys general from almost every US state

launch an investigation into Google's search and advertising dominance.

And just before the UK Parliament entered a five week suspension that Boris Johnson ordered,

the House of Commons voted down the Prime Minister's second attempt to hold a snap general election.

Plus the F.T.'s retail banking correspondent Nicholas Maga

tells us about the 50 billion pound British banking scandal caused by the

selling of payment protection insurance. But first, the F.T.'s Eric Platt

broke the story on Soft Bank, pushing we worked to shelf its hotly anticipated stock market listing.

He'll unpack what this means for the loss-making property group.

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

On Monday we revealed that We Works largest back our soft bank was getting a bit

nervous about the IPO given that the valuation we work was expected to get was

significantly below the valuation that had clenched earlier this year in a fundraising round.

And Soft Bank is now putting pressure on we work to shelve the IPO, postpone it until you can get a higher valuation,

or find anchored investors now that are willing to kind of help keep the valuation above 20 billion dollars.

Our sources are telling us that bankers, or testing investor appetite around 15 to 20 billion dollars

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