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EPISODE · Jul 1, 2021 · 9 MIN

How English Channel ports avoided a Brexit meltdown

from FT News Briefing

Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time high, and the dominant Chinese ride-hailing company, Didi Chuxing, became the largest Chinese company since Alibaba to list in the US, and nightmarish fears of traffic jams and clogged ports after Brexit never materialised thanks to several factors.  Private equity breaks 40-year record with $500bn dealshttps://www.ft.com/content/cd9571a3-726c-4995-9954-23a8dcf12b19?Didi shares rise on New York trading debut https://www.ft.com/content/dd7ea7fa-96c4-420c-94be-5730a284cc04How Britain’s Channel ports avoided Brexit meltdownhttps://www.ft.com/content/1001c054-0cf9-4f30-a62a-c9ac91e58223Tim Berners-Lee’s web NFT sells for $5.4m https://www.ft.com/content/0e45c25b-f66b-44d1-b662-0e7b095664f9 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time high, and the dominant Chinese ride-hailing company, Didi Chuxing, became the largest Chinese company since Alibaba to list in the US, and nightmarish fears of traffic jams and clogged ports after Brexit never materialised thanks to several factors.  Private equity breaks 40-year record with $500bn dealshttps://www.ft.com/content/cd9571a3-726c-4995-9954-23a8dcf12b19?Didi shares rise on New York trading debut https://www.ft.com/content/dd7ea7fa-96c4-420c-94be-5730a284cc04How Britain’s Channel ports avoided Brexit meltdownhttps://www.ft.com/content/1001c054-0cf9-4f30-a62a-c9ac91e58223Tim Berners-Lee’s web NFT sells for $5.4m https://www.ft.com/content/0e45c25b-f66b-44d1-b662-0e7b095664f9 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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