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Game of monopoly How big can Big Tech get before Big Tech could get wrecked? Say that 10x fast. Tongue twisters, market twisters, and even legal twisters are enveloping the high-flying tech industry, which has helped propel stocks to record highs in 2024 – until yesterday. The Nasdaq (COMP:IND) plunged…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Student protesters in Bangladesh have called for Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to be named chief adviser of a new interim government after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country in…

Did you know more people turn 65 each day in America than are born? And by 2030, there will be more people over 60 than those under 18? This generation of “elders” in the developed world is “the longest lived, wealthiest, healthiest, most highly educated, and largest percentage of elder…

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Monday vowed that the central bank would react to signs of weakness in the economy and indicated that interest rates could be too restrictive now.Asked whether weakening in the labor market and manufacturing sector could prompt a response from the Fed, Goolsbee did…

What a difference a day makes! After a two-week correction of nearly 5%, the S&P 500 (SPX) spent the first part of last week rallying in anticipation of a friendly Fed meeting. That Fed meeting Wednesday produced the expected, namely that a rate cut in September was likely. That pushed…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned, a senior military official has said, after thousands of protesters descended on the capital demanding her ousting in a dramatic culmination of weeks of demonstrations.Bangladesh…

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