Explore "activist investors" with insightful episodes like "Prof G Markets: Arm’s AI Rally, Lyft’s Earnings Mistake, and Airbnb’s Trading Premium", "US Steel gets a new owner", "Why Companies Do Layoffs Before the Holidays & Disney's Board Battle", "Disney Wars: Attack of the Activist Investor" and "What’s behind the job cuts in Big Tech?" from podcasts like ""The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway", "FT News Briefing", "Morning Brew Daily", "The Journal." and "Behind the Money"" and more!
Activist investor Cevian Capital has taken a €1.2bn stake in UBS, and Nippon Steel has agreed to buy US Steel in a $14.9bn deal. Plus, the FT’s Josh Gabert-Doyon takes us to the English town of Widnes and discusses what the destruction of fossil fuel infrastructure means for local citizens.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Activist Cevian places €1.2bn bet on UBS
Nippon Steel agrees to buy US Steel for $14.9bn
The Fiddler’s Ferry blast that will reshape a town’s identity
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. 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.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Several Big Tech companies have recently announced job cuts - and they pinned their decisions on a pandemic-induced hiring spree. But is that actually what’s driving the cuts? We sat down with the FT’s US financial commentator Robert Armstrong to get the full picture.
Clips from Reuters, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
BTM listeners, we want to know what you think of the show and what you want to hear more of. Visit ft.com/btmsurvey to submit your feedback.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
For further reading:
Bye-bye massages and free food: Big Tech cuts back perks
The shock of mass lay-offs is only the beginning for companies
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
On Twitter, follow Robert Armstrong (@rbrtmstrng) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An activist investment firm won a shocking victory at Exxon Mobil. But can new directors really put the oil giant on a cleaner path?
This story was written by Jessica Camille Aguirre and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Stay up to date
For any inquiries, please email us at hello@podcastworld.io