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EPISODE · Dec 17, 2020 · 8 MIN

Fed to extend debt purchases, US small businesses struggle, Robinhood hit with legal complaint

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The US central bank  says it will keep buying at least $120bn of debt a month until “substantial further progress has been made” in the recovery, US regulators have hit Luckin Coffee with a $180m penalty in an accounting fraud settlement, and Massachusetts launches legal action against the online trading app Robinhood. Plus, the FT’s global finance correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth, explains why there is an uneven recovery in the US corporate landscape. Fed to extend debt purchases to boost flagging US economyhttps://www.ft.com/content/74b6530e-9d69-43f0-a5d7-3cb363ed5398America’s two-track economy: the small business credit crunchhttps://www.ft.com/content/1ae439b1-75e7-4b55-876c-66533ac37db8Massachusetts takes legal action against Robinhoodhttps://www.ft.com/content/0e451231-fa4c-4686-bf2f-a5e107f337b9Luckin Coffee to pay $180m in accounting fraud settlement ft.com/content/4db3b074-829f-4f1c-a256-11c7e28a31d1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The US central bank  says it will keep buying at least $120bn of debt a month until “substantial further progress has been made” in the recovery, US regulators have hit Luckin Coffee with a $180m penalty in an accounting fraud settlement, and Massachusetts launches legal action against the online trading app Robinhood. Plus, the FT’s global finance correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth, explains why there is an uneven recovery in the US corporate landscape. Fed to extend debt purchases to boost flagging US economyhttps://www.ft.com/content/74b6530e-9d69-43f0-a5d7-3cb363ed5398America’s two-track economy: the small business credit crunchhttps://www.ft.com/content/1ae439b1-75e7-4b55-876c-66533ac37db8Massachusetts takes legal action against Robinhoodhttps://www.ft.com/content/0e451231-fa4c-4686-bf2f-a5e107f337b9Luckin Coffee to pay $180m in accounting fraud settlement ft.com/content/4db3b074-829f-4f1c-a256-11c7e28a31d1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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