FT News Briefing

Brexit watch, China-Australia tensions, 2020 corporate winners and losers

Britain and the EU were finalising a historic post-Brexit agreement on Wednesday night.  Plus, Beijing’s market regulator has announced an antitrust investigation into Alibaba, China’s ban on Australian coal exports is hurting its companies, and the FT’s US business editor, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, looks at 2020’s corporate winners and losers as well as who might rebound in 2021.  Britain and EU poised to announce Christmas Eve Brexit deal<a href="ft.com/content/4993212f-25c8-479e-83d6-f7db3731d1be?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ft.com/content/4993212f-25c8-479e-83d6-f7db3731d1be?</a> China launches antitrust investigation into Alibaba<a href="ft.com/content/bdcc073f-3b70-4411-92d7-ee36973a8b7a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ft.com/content/bdcc073f-3b70-4411-92d7-ee36973a8b7a</a> Politics come first’ as ban on Australian coal worsens China’s power cuts<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e83fffeb-3ef2-4b67-8989-6d17f153d8d4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/e83fffeb-3ef2-4b67-8989-6d17f153d8d4</a> Prospering in the pandemic: the top 100 companies<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/844ed28c-8074-4856-bde0-20f3bf4cd8f0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/844ed28c-8074-4856-bde0-20f3bf4cd8f0</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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