BBC Business Editor Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 Co-Presenter Good Bad Billionaire - Best Business Podcast 2024
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Jack Dorsey under the Good Bad Billionaire microscope. He founded a social media behemoth, but made more cash from card payments. He built Twitter, but was removed as CEO, before going on to found fintech firm Square. Link below.
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Ukraine feeling betrayed by US is not getting much economic help from EU according to boss of Ukraine's biggest steel company whose boss tells BBC that import restrictions aimed at China are hitting Ukraine and urges carve out to help "dire situation"
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Gautam Adani: The multiple mogul
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This is the price of insuring the debt of Coreweave against default. The company rents out data centres and still has a very healthy future order book but bond investors getting a bit nervy about size of its debt load.
How Gautam Adani became a billionaire. Latest episode of Good Bad Billionaire. In vision this one.
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Unusually strong intervention from Norways Equinor - from whom UK buys 50% of its gas.
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Hold the front page. Important scrabble news. Just put the p in front of reside to get preside in 2 directions while hitting triple word and using all 7 letters. Epic. 93 points doesn’t do it justice.
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Nelson Peltz made his money via some contentious methods, but fame came via his daughter.
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The gap between UK and French govt borrowing costs has narrowed over 0.75% - as investors shun French bonds. Interesting backdrop for upcoming French budget and next springs election.
The Prime Minister has said the water industry is an example of everything that went wrong in the 1980s. Mr Burnam said government will remove an "ideologocal" Thatcher era ban on public ownership of water companies in England and strengthen public control. He says where private ownership serves the public, the government will support it but with greater local involvement from regional leaders. This seems to leave the door open to all outcomes. It is not clear what this means for a consortium of private lenders who had hoped to take control of Thames Water with a 10 billion rescue plan. Thames Water is drowning in £20 billion of debt and is expected to run out of cash by the end of the year. Many of his own Mps have called for the nationalisation of the utility. Thames Water itself has warned that it will need to find £2 billion to fund its operations and investments next year - which under public ownership will have to come from public coffers.
Can the threat of war save the European car industry. A few thoughts here on the military industrial complex for BBC indepth.
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Not many people become billionaires as employees of someone else - Sheryl Sandberg is an exception - new episode of Good Bad Billionaire out now.
Sheryl Sandberg: as COO of Facebook, then Meta, Sandberg is a rare billionaire employee.
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Was very happy to be involved with the Royal Foundation yesterday for World Suicide Prevention day. Moving accounts fro m Dames Laura Kenny and Kelli Holmes on their private struggles with depression while being publicly seen as world beaters. FA, Team GB, Premier League, British Cycling committed to building suicide prevention toolkit into their structures.
One conversation can change everything.
The world of sport is coming together behind one shared goal: suicide prevention.
To download the free ‘On Your Side' Toolkit, or if you need support, visit the link in bio.
Developed by The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales in partnership with BSI and @ChasingStigma
Thanks to Harry Kane, George Russell, Kofi Josephs, Ruqsana Begum, Carl Frampton MBE, George Baker and Rochelle Clark MBE
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Two things to note as borrowing costs in advanced economies stay firmly in focus:
The UK government paid a 5.82% yield on its £4.25 billion bond issuance today, the highest ever recorded by the Debt Management Office.
Amazon is launching its debt sterling bond offering, illustrating how US tech giants are increasingly diversifying into international bond markets.
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Sir Alan..I'm sorry, Lord Sugar is our latest billionaire story - have a listen here - dozens of others to listen to including Taylor Swift, Elon Musk, Beyonce, Sam Altman etc bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct9b…
Jackdaw green light could come as soon as mid-September.
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A very good explainer on why bond yields are rising and what it means for households - from my colleagues in personal finance bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx…
Andy Burnham has described the water industry as "a leaking monument" to decades of wrong turns starting under the Thatcher government in the 1980s. He promised he would give customers "more ownership and control" of the industry. Using the word "ownership" is a subtle change from his promises to date which have promised "greater public control" - but stopped short of promising public ownership. There have been proposals floated to turn water companies into so called mutuals - owned by their customers - which have been studied by the government but dismissed by some as shutting off access to new equity capital. The private consortium attempting to take control of Thames Water will be hoping that doesn't mean their proposed £10 billion rescue plan will be rejected in favour of mutualisation or nationalisation - whether temporary or permanent.
Quite a comment from ex ceo of Goldman.
