Wednesday, August 21

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

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🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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US president Donald Trump considers tax cuts to stimulate the economy and Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigns. Also, US regulators rewrite the Volcker rule, Facebook launches a new privacy tool pilot and Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel fires. Plus, the FT’s Seb Payne unpacks the stand-off between Boris Johnson and European Council president Donald Tusk over Britain’s withdrawal agreement from the EU.

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0:00.0	The UK's energy partner.
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0:10.0	Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.
0:12.0	Today is Wednesday, August 21st. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.
0:12.6	Today is Wednesday, August 21st.
0:15.5	And this is your FT news briefing.
0:19.0	US President Donald Trump says he's looking
0:21.4	into a number of tax cuts but insists the U.S. is far away from a recession.
0:27.5	And after months of government clashes, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigns.
0:33.6	Plus the F.T.'s Seb Payne unpacks the back and forth
0:37.0	between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
0:39.4	and the head of the European Council
0:41.3	over the Brexit Agreement. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news
0:46.0	you need to start your day.
0:48.0	U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that he is exploring a range of options
0:54.6	to stimulate the economy. Here he is speaking at the White House.
0:58.3	Yeah, we're looking at various tax reductions, but I'm looking at that all the time anyway, tax reductions. That's one of the
1:04.5	reasons we're in such a strong economic position. So we're talking about
1:07.8	indexing and we're always looking at the capital gains tax, payroll tax.
1:12.4	These comments comments some White House officials the capital gains tax, payroll tax.
1:13.0	These comments come as some White House officials
1:15.2	say they're getting nervous about how the US might
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