FT News Briefing

Meme ‘stonks’ and the market

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/eb36b605-47d9-465a-91f8-d47a4af45fae" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/eb36b605-47d9-465a-91f8-d47a4af45fae</a> Tech groups in Taiwan are accused of locking up migrant workers as coronavirus hits the sector, and the rapid rise in prices for raw materials has reversed a decades-long decline in the cost of solar energy. Plus, our global finance correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth, explains how financial memefication is evolving from a niche corner to grow deep roots in stock markets Tech groups in Taiwan accused of locking up migrant workers<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4269650e-7660-4b80-b294-f81b4368784c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/4269650e-7660-4b80-b294-f81b4368784c</a> Solar power investors burnt by rise in raw materials costs<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2f8dd951-a1b1-410a-89dd-14728c56235d?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/2f8dd951-a1b1-410a-89dd-14728c56235d</a> How meme lords fuelled a boom in the ‘stonk market’<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e3304649-7348-424e-b354-e8da1c819364" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/e3304649-7348-424e-b354-e8da1c819364</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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