FT News Briefing

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Red Sea shipping route remains dangerous. What's behind Chinese carmaker BYD's success in the electric vehicle market? And new figures show Germany was the world’s weakest-performing major economy last year. Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/3vI8dRS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Germany was worst-performing major economy last year</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/48xECcF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">China’s electric vehicle dominance presents a challenge to the west</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/48UMTXS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wang Chuanfu, the driving force behind BYD’s rise</a> The FT News Briefing was produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Persis Love, Josh Gabert-Doyon, and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Simon Panayi. Topher Forhecz and Manuela Saragosa were executive producers. 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/a453ed19-b855-418d-bcde-6cd94057bab9" 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.

A rundown of the most important global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. Available every weekday morning. 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.