FT News Briefing

Treatments for Alzheimer’s, finally

The Nasdaq Composite had its biggest one-day drop in more than four months, the winner of Thailand’s general election has been suspended from parliament, and the FT’s Clive Cookson tells us about two huge breakthroughs in the treatment of Alzheimer’s.  Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/3pWo5Om" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nasdaq drops more than 2% after Netflix and Tesla results disappoint</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3NZP3N4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thai election winner blocked from premiership</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/46XAiTl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression</a> The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Saffeya Ahmed, Monica Lopez, Katie McMurran, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.  <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/49ab3e87-aefd-43bf-9e64-dc34daffa559" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</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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