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The Spread Nobody Wants to Close — Apollo, easyJet and £5.7bn
On 6 August 2026, Apollo Global Management won a ten-week bidding war for easyJet, valuing the airline at roughly £5.7 billion. Castlelake withdrew. The board recommended the offer unanimously. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou backed it and elected to roll his family’s entire 15.3% stake into the new owner rather than take cash.
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The “Flying BMP”: Ukraine’s New Commander and the Fight to Remake an Army
In this episode we go inside the crisis that made Mykhailo Drapatyi commander-in-chief: the reshuffle that dropped reformist defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the street revolt that followed, and the clash of two visions for how Ukraine fights.
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The Liquidity Wave — AI IPOs and the San Francisco Housing Shock
Last year, 8 San Francisco homes sold for at least a million dollars over asking. This year, that number is 144 — and the two companies most responsible, OpenAI and Anthropic, haven’t even gone public yet.
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The Missile Made in Germany, Owned by Washington | NATO’s €50BN Ankara Summit
Europe will finally build its own ATACMS missiles — on German soil. The catch? Washington still holds the export sign-off. That’s the autonomy paradox at the heart of NATO’s 2026 Ankara summit.
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The Climate Bill Nobody Sees: Why Insurance Costs Keep Rising
Reinsurers cut catastrophe prices by up to 25% on 1 July 2026. American homeowners still pay 46% more than they did in 2021. Both facts describe the same warming atmosphere — and the gap between them is where your premium lives.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank’s War-Tested Quarter: What FAB’s Profit Drop Really Means
First Abu Dhabi Bank reported a small profit decline in Q1 — but the headline number does not tell the real story. Was the profit decline a warning sign? Or was it a sign of disciplined risk management?
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Brexit at Ten: The Slow Subtraction That Reshaped Britain’s Economy
A decade on from the referendum, the argument about Brexit has moved from prophecy to forensics, and the evidence is finally in. In this episode, we follow the money through the slow subtraction
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Austria on the Edge: What a Kickl Government Would Mean for Europe
Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) is polling at an all-time high of 38%, while the three-party coalition built to exclude Herbert Kickl teeters on the edge of collapse. After three consecutive years of recession and €15 billion in austerity, the strategy of shutting Kickl out hasn’t weakened him — it has made him stronger.
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The $2 Trillion Rocket: What SpaceX Didn’t Tell You About Its IPO
The largest IPO in history made Elon Musk a paper trillionaire overnight. The stock popped 19% on day one. A rocket launched an hour before the opening bell. And almost nobody read the document underneath it all.
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Russia’s Slow Burn: The Economic Crisis the Kremlin Won’t Admit
Russia didn’t collapse after 2022 — and the Kremlin never stops saying so. But beneath the stocked supermarket shelves and the headline GDP figures, independent economists describe something slower and far more dangerous: a war machine consuming the very foundations it stands on.
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Germany’s AfD Shock: What the Far Right’s Rise Means for Europe, Markets and the Global Economy
Germany’s far-right AfD is no longer just a protest movement. It is now leading national polls, gaining historic strength in eastern Germany, and moving closer to real political power.
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