Investors serve, can women’s tennis volley?

Archegos founder Bill Hwang found guilty of fraud, investors are selling off risky US junk bonds, and women’s tennis is getting big investments from Saudi Arabia and private equity firms. Plus, the FT’s Ryan McMorrow explains how Amazon is fighting back against rivals like Temu and Shein. Mentioned in this podcast: Archegos founder Bill Hwang found guilty over fund’s collapse Investors shun riskier junk bonds as bankruptcy filings jump Saudi wealth bolsters WTA’s ambitions for women’s tennis Amazon set to take on Temu and Shein with new discount section Survey link: http://ft.com/FTsurvey2024 Survey terms & conditions: http://www.ft.com/globalsurvey/terms The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Michela Tindera, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Our intern is Prakriti Panwar. 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.