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Football clubs are pouring billions into stadiums
FromFT News Briefing
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12 minutes
Released:
Jan 8, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
A pile up of bad debt threatens to sour investors’ growing optimism about the prospects for the US’s largest banks, and European football clubs are pouring money into transforming stadiums. Plus, the FT’s Joe Miller explains why another bad bet by SoftBank could be trouble for the Japanese group. Mentioned in this podcast:SoftBank’s Gen Z social media bust: was IRL the next Facebook or a fraud?The European football clubs turning stadiums into cash cowsLargest US banks set to log sharp rise in bad loansThe 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.
Released:
Jan 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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