FT News Briefing

EU travel bans, US stimulus, the City after Brexit

Several EU countries have banned travel from the UK as scientists identify a new strain of Covid that is 70 percent more transmissable, in the US, lawmakers reached a deal on Sunday night over a new round of stimulus, and shopping sites delivering from China are rushing to build their own global freight networks. Plus, our Brexit editor asks whether the UK’s stock market can ever get its mojo back. Scientists alarmed at spread of Covid mutant <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a0bef737-c763-447a-b1f3-0649dc5989a0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/a0bef737-c763-447a-b1f3-0649dc5989a0</a> US lawmakers reach deal on $900bn stimulus package<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6c953f0e-b229-42c1-959e-ef62196ef4d6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/6c953f0e-b229-42c1-959e-ef62196ef4d6</a> Shopping sites in China are building their own global freight networkshttps://www.ft.com/content/8af9c8f3-7ab3-4316-b014-c00e7d8ec83d Can the UK stock market get its mojo back?<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ca6e6558-c55a-478b-a35d-81958d0c2890" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/ca6e6558-c55a-478b-a35d-81958d0c2890</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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