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Shell\u2019s merger chief departed after a bid to acquire rival BP was quashed internally, and the EU\u2019s top trade official warns the bloc would lose global credibility if it fails to approve its trade deal with the Mercosur group of South American countries. Plus, Brussels plans to scrap the EU\u2019s 2035 combustion engine ban, and hedge funds and trading firms are piling into physical commodities markets in search of new sources of returns.<\/p>\n
Mentioned in this podcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n Shell mergers chief departed after CEO blocked bid for BP<\/p>\n EU will lose face if it rejects Mercosur deal, warns trade commissioner<\/p>\n Brussels plans to scrap 2035 combustion engine ban<\/p>\n Hedge funds pile into commodities in search of fresh source of returns<\/p>\n Note: The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts <\/p>\n Today\u2019s FT News Briefing was hosted and produced by Sonja Hutson. Our show was mixed by Kelly Garry. Additional help from Gavin Kallmann, Michael Lello and David da Silva. The FT\u2019s acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show\u2019s theme music is by Metaphor Music.<\/p>\n Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com<\/strong><\/p>\n View our accessibility guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shell\u2019s merger chief departed after a bid to acquire rival BP was quashed internally, and the EU\u2019s top trade official warns the bloc would lose global credibility if it fails to approve its trade deal with the Mercosur group of South American countries. Plus, Brussels plans to scrap the EU\u2019s 2035 combustion engine ban, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1639,696,20778,16171,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-37664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-balance","9":"tag-deal","10":"tag-eumercosur","11":"tag-hangs","12":"tag-trade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}