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Indra Nooyi is to step down from PepsiCo after a 12-year tenure at the head of one of the world’s biggest consumer goods companies. Tom Braithwaite talks to our consumer industries editor Scheherezade Daneshkhu about Ms Nooyi’s legacy and about why there has been so much change at the top of the big food and beverage groups recently.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

House of Fraser, once considered a jewel in the crown of Britain’s retail sector, has fallen on hard times and now faces liquidation if it can’t find a rescuer. Ursula Milton discusses whether it can survive and what its decline says about the state of the UK retail industry.Check out our subscriber offer at ft.com/offer50  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Darren Dodd discusses the latest measures to tackle the problem of poor diet and obesity with Tim Rycroft of the Food and Drink Federation, and Graham MacGregor of the campaign group Action on Sugar and Salt.Take up our subscriber offer at www.ft.com/offer50  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Tuesday Facebook exposed the first disinformation campaign designed to influence the upcoming US midterm elections. The FT's San Francisco correspondent Hannah Kuchler explains the scope of the campaign, and what details we have about who might be behind it. Read more here.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leslie Hook, FT environment correspondent, discusses recent evidence that companies in China have been flouting rules banning the use of CFCs, with Steve Montzka and Matt Rigby, authors of a recent ozone report in Nature, and Julian Newman of the environmental investigations agencyTake up our subscriber offer at ft.com/offer50  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Companies are growing increasingly concerned about the Trump administration's trade policies as they start to count the cost of its tariff battles with China and Europe. The FT's North America correspondent Patti Waldmeir and global trade editor Shawn Donnan tell Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson what the trade war means for corporate America's bottom line, and whether a ceasefire in the trade battle with the EU will ease concerns. Read more on global trade at FT.com.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The music streaming service is turning to India to find new subscribers and to justify its $33bn valuation, but record labels are resisting the expansion. The FT's Anna Nicolaou explains. Read Anna's story here.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Polls ahead of Wednesday’s election in Pakistan show a dead heat between Shehbaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party led by the country’s former cricket captain Imran Khan. The election should be Pakistan’s only second transition from one civilian administration to another, but it has also been called one of the country's dirtiest in recent years. Jyotsna Singh talks to Kiran Stacey about the election's importance and what to expect afterwards.You can read Kiran's story on the election on FT.com and see our podcast subscriber offer at ft.com/offer50  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve, earlier this week warned against reading the US yield curve, or the difference between short term and longer term Treasury yields, as an indicator of a looming recession. Joe Rennison explains how the shape of the yield curve has changed over the past year, and whether it indicates a forthcoming economic downturn. Read Joe's story here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cuba is to end its freeze on issuing licences for private businesses, but the government has also issued new regulations aimed at limiting profits and increasing tax revenues that will have the effect of stifling entrepreneurship. Hannah Murphy discusses the impact of the new rules with the FT's Latin America editor John Paul Rathbone. Check out our subscriber offer at ft.com/offer50  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Narendra Modi is planning to privatise large parts of Indian industry. But his botched attempt to sell Air India has revealed big flaws in the plan. Jyotsna Singh talks to Kiran Stacey, the FT’s South Asia correspondent, about what went wrongRead Kiran’s story here  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FT investigative reporter Tom Burgis talks to Esther Bintliff about the links he uncovered between a shadowy world of post-Soviet money and the future president of the United States. Image credit: HellovonRead Tom's report here  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the Trump administration struggles to reunite migrants and their children forcibly separated at the US border, China has been separating families on a far larger scale as part of a crackdown against ethnic Uighurs. The FT’s Emily Feng tells James Kynge how children have been caught up in the crackdown.Read Emily's report here  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Denmark's biggest bank, previously a darling of the investor community, has become mired in a money laundering scandal related to the Magnitsky Case. Patrick Jenkins talks to Richard Milne, the FT's Nordic correspondent, about the scandal and what it tells us about the state of bank regulation in Europe.Read Richard's article hereListen to Banking Weekly  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

British woman Dawn Sturgess has died after coming into contact with the nerve agent novichok, four months after a former Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned in the same area. Elaine Moore talks to the FT's defence correspondent David Bond about what we know so far.Read David Bond's article here  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

New revenue sharing proposals are causing growing discord between regional parties and the government in Delhi, the FT's Amy Kazmin tells Jyotsna Singh.Read Amy's article hereBecome an FT subscriber  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two of Europe’s biggest supermarkets, Carrefour in France and Tesco in the UK have agreed to team up to purchase supplies, hoping their combined purchasing power will enable them to win better deals from suppliers and beat off competitors. Vanessa Houlder discusses the pressures the supermarkets are facing in their search for profitability with the FT’s Harriet Agnew and Jonathan EleyRead more on the Tesco-Carrefour deal here  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won a landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, making the veteran leftist politician the most powerful president in more than a generation. Amlo, as he is popularly known, has promised to make the poor his priority and will have the capacity to unpick some of the market-friendly policies favoured by his predecessors. Daniel Dombey discusses what kind of president he will make with the FT’s Jude Webber in Mexico City.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Global dealmaking reached $2.5tn in the first half of 2018, breaking the all-time high for the period. What's driving the consolidation and what might bring the boom to an end? The FT's Sujeet Indap and James Fontanella-Khan explain. Sign up for Due Diligence, the FT's must-read daily email briefing on M&A, corporate finance and private equity here.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Weeks of chaos on the railways of northern England in June resulted in angry denunciations of rail bosses, showdowns in parliament and long odysseys for frazzled commuters. But in one small corner of the rail network, locals and tourists were enjoying a taste of 1970s nostalgia. Andrew Bounds reports on Britain's DIY railway from Windermere in Cumbria.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.