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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Wednesday, December 5th, and this is your FT news briefing.

At the start of five days of debate that will set the course our country takes for decades to come. It is worth

taking a moment to reflect on how we got here.

Wendy... Wendy? UK Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a below to her Brexit deal on Tuesday.

The FT's Henry Mance will walk us through the dramatic day in Parliament.

But first, we'll be looking at Wall Street's tumble on trade and growth fears, job cuts

at Reuters, and the world's largest shipping container company pledging to cut net carbon emissions

to zero.

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

I'm Nicole Bullock, U.S. Equities Correspondent for the Financial Times.

Wall Street fell sharply on Tuesday as renewed concerns about trade tension cast doubts over

the outlook for economic growth around the world.

This was reflected in various barometers around the

financial markets. U.S. stocks had a sharp drop, in particular the Dow Jones Transport Index,

which is seen in the stock market as a gauge of the

economy in particular felt more than 4% in the bond market. The signals were also pointing to concerns about growth.

The yield curve, which is the difference between yields on short-dated and long-dated securities,

flattened, which is the bond market's version of a signal that economic

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