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Transcript: Wall Street digests bitter economic data

Jess Smith Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, August 4th, and this is your FT News Briefing. Financial markets are digesting uncomfortable data about the US economy. And the boom ...

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Wall Street digests bitter economic data

Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Ethan Plotkin, Jess Smith, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Blake Maples, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann.

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