FT News Briefing

US congress to vote on $1.9tn stimulus bill, scaling up green hydrogen, Coupang’s IPO

The OECD said on Tuesday that president Joe Biden’s $1.9tn US stimulus programme will boost the global economic recovery, the pandemic is being blamed for lower birth rates across Europe, and the IPO of South Korean ecommerce group, Coupang, is being clouded by worker deaths. Plus, the FT’s energy correspondent, Nathalie Thomas, explains the current surge of interest in green hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels.  Biden stimulus will boost global recovery, says OECD<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/7f7d4b7d-028a-41a6-b11e-8320173ae4bc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/7f7d4b7d-028a-41a6-b11e-8320173ae4bc</a> Covid pandemic blamed for falling birth rates across much of Europe<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/bc825399-345c-47b8-82e7-6473a1c9a861?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/bc825399-345c-47b8-82e7-6473a1c9a861?</a> Coupang’s New York listing clouded by worker deaths<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a90749a2-5f5d-4789-8215-fd4168a50813" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/a90749a2-5f5d-4789-8215-fd4168a50813</a> The race to scale up green hydrogen<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/7eac54ee-f1d1-4ebc-9573-b52f87d00240" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/7eac54ee-f1d1-4ebc-9573-b52f87d00240</a> Curaleaf bets on more liberal Europe with $300m deal for cannabis producer <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8dffd932-0ecb-444f-9cc0-079466c7b997?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/8dffd932-0ecb-444f-9cc0-079466c7b997?</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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