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Arash Massoudi
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Arash Massoudi
@ArashMassoudi
Finance+Markets editor @FinancialTimes
Co-creator+editor of Due Diligence ft.com/dd
Co-chair #FTFootball + launched ft.com/scoreboard
- Replying to @ArashMassoudiRicketts family bid has been knocked back due to renewed scrutiny of leaked correspondence in which the family’s patriarch wrote that Muslims are the “enemy”
- Been a finance reporter for over a decade, the misinformation during the Manchester United sale process is extraordinary. A majority of what you read is wrong. Stick to trusted news outlets, not Twitter.
- Well this is interesting. Todd Boehly and Jonathan Goldstein of Chelsea FC and Cain International have teamed up with Saudi PIF (who own Newcastle FC) on a new investment project#PIF has invested $900M alongside Cain International in Aman Group to accelerate its global expansion of ultra-luxury hotels and branded residences, in line with the #PIFstrategy 2021-2025.
- Chamath tells Axios' @danprimack: "We had a decade plus of zero interest rates. That is what was fundamentally wrong. It perverted the market. It allowed manias and assets bubbles...When you provide free money into a system. Manias will build."
- FT SCOOP: Bernard Arnault's LVMH nears $16.7bn deal to buy US jeweler Tiffany & Co after raising offer to $135 per share. Details here and more to come... ft.com/content/c7a7b2… w/ @EricGPlatt
- Re David Cameron’s Greensill shares -Our reporting revealed he was given options worth ~1% of Greensill -Last year, G tried to raise $ at $7bn “pre-IPO” valuation -Thus we refer to shares that could have been worth $70m -DC has had plenty of time to clarify this, still hasn’t
- Musk has sold four tranches of shares worth a total of almost $23bn since announcing his takeover of Twitter. It is the third sale since declaring in April there would be “no further TSLA sales” to support the deal. on.ft.com/3VYxhfZ
- SCOOP: Qatar is in talks to buy a stake in @LUFC Leeds United. First major move in English football for the @PSG_English owner. Story w/ @cornishft @muradahmed @JFK_America ft.com/content/6e42c7… #FTFootball ⚽️ 🥅
- Elon has now tanked Twitter's share price, with a pretty questionable tweet on Friday the 13th. By doing so, he opens the door to re-cutting the deal at a much lower price or walking away. Has anyone on Wall Street ever toyed with stocks like Elon?
- When you accidentally spill the beans on your tradecraft via the URL 👀
- Extraordinary scenes and tension at #FTFootball as La Liga head Javier Tebas calls out Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli (seated w back to me at front table in pic) and launches against the 3 clubs still pushing the Super League “They lie more than Putin!” 🥶🥶🥶
- V interesting new game via the Daily Mail. 5 letters and you gotta guess the word. They call it 'GuessWord'
- “He’s really doing it to stop the club becoming hostage to anti-Russian sanctions, which are going to be around for a while now,” a friend of the billionaire told the FT. Full @FT take with @SamuelAgini and @maxseddon on what's going on at @ChelseaFC
