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Ray Douglas

@raydouglas.bsky.social
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Journalist at @financialtimes.com Formerly @thetimes.com‬ and The Sunday Times | Editor, writer and occasional coder | Markets and tech | Views my own 🌐 raydouglas.co.uk

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
⚽ The Premier League is clearly not fit to police its own financial rules The City case exists only because hacker Rui Pinto leaked documents to Der Spiegel in 2018 Chelsea's record £10.75mn fine? Self-reported by the club's new owners FT www.ft.com/content/2f82...
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Manchester City found guilty of breaching Premier League rules
Independent panel upholds 114 of 115 charges after lengthy investigation into financial regulations
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
⚽ The Premier League is clearly not fit to police its own financial rules The City case exists only because hacker Rui Pinto leaked documents to Der Spiegel in 2018 Chelsea's record £10.75mn fine? Self-reported by the club's new owners FT www.ft.com/content/2f82...
ft.com
Manchester City found guilty of breaching Premier League rules
Independent panel upholds 114 of 115 charges after lengthy investigation into financial regulations
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 25/09/2026
‘The pace at which US yields ripped above 5 per cent was unnatural and comparable in recent years only with the short but brutal market shock from Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs in April last year. Market insiders say this was a sign of distress.’ www.ft.com/content/4acb...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sidenote: Is Susan Collins' dress blue and black or white and gold?
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This chart on Europe from the Financial Times is a general reminder that, in exhibiting impressive resilience to the energy shock, the global economy has run down its physical inventory. #economy #oil #energy #markets @financialtimes.com
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🇺🇸 Apple promised to protect your data. Anthropic's Dario Amodei is still just asking for an industry "pause" My colleague @robarmstrong.bsky.social is spot on in his column about trust in AI and Apple FT www.ft.com/content/f532...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇪🇺 🇨🇦 Perhaps Britain could follow Canada in becoming an "Associate Member" of the EU... #Brexit WSJ www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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EU Chief Proposes Making Canada First Associate Member
Her comments came as part of her annual State of the Union speech, in which she set out further plans to boost the bloc’s economy.
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇺🇸 Sixteen of America's 20 biggest political donors are backing Republicans this midterm cycle, an FT analysis finds -- even as the GOP trails in the polls The outlier: George Soros, still the top Democratic money man FT www.ft.com/content/2285...
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US billionaires line up to bankroll Republicans’ election push
Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterms race
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🇺🇸 Bessent says he’s supportive of $5,000 cheques for Americans Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🇺🇸 Trump calls on Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries "US president says the attacks and not his war in Iran are responsible for diesel hitting record highs" FT www.ft.com/content/e3ba...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🌮 First signs of a Tacco coming? Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Sees Canada Deal ‘Fairly Soon,’ Downplays Leaving USMCA
President Donald Trump expressed optimism about resolving a trade fight with Canada and downplayed the prospect of quitting a continental trade pact, in a potential sign of de-escalating tensions betw...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🇺🇸 Trump doubling down on $5,000 voting payout…
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 10/09/2026
“Bonds are facing a double whammy — oil prices are creeping higher, while US buybacks and growing credibility risks are pushing term premia higher" www.ft.com/content/49e8... 😬 chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🇺🇸 If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you FT as.ft.com/r/04cfbae2-9...
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Trump promises $5,000 ‘dividend’ for US voters if Republicans win midterms
President vows to campaign vigorously for his party despite his plummeting approval ratings
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🇺🇸 Er, why? Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP meme coin gives founders -- including him -- 30% of the 1bn tokens Another 20% airdrops to wallets that lost money on Trump's $TRUMP coin, plus Biden's Substack subscribers and a mailing list run by his friend Andrew Callaghan WSJ www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Hunter Biden (and His Laptop) Enter the Cryptosphere With New Meme Coin
The personal computer that launched a thousand memes will debut this week as a digital token.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Chart of the day from @raydouglas.bsky.social for a @katie0martin.ft.com column on the gloves coming off on markets towards the US as.ft.com/r/d4ff6788-6...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🇺🇸🇬🇧 Should the UK make itself more reliant on trade with the US? It's not working well for Canada Trump's top trade negotiator says the UK isn't using the freedom Brexit gave it -- it's choosing "Brussels over America" instead #Brexit FT www.ft.com/content/0d2b...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🇬🇧 A company linked to Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly has given Nigel Farage's Reform UK £75,000 That's on top of the £4mn that crypto entrepreneur Ben Delo -- pardoned by Trump last year -- gave the party this quarter FT www.ft.com/content/c8fb...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 02/09/2026
A big shock from Malta: the jury acquits the man accused of orchestrating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia: as.ft.com/r/977679ea-7...
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Businessman acquitted in Maltese journalist’s murder trial
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in 2017
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🇷🇺 🇮🇷 Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles FT exclusive www.ft.com/content/6cf3...
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Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles
Leaks reveal programme behind one of the most significant known transfers of military technology from Moscow to Tehran
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/09/2026
“Everyone is increasing their borrowing at a time when funding costs are going higher. The fiscal situation is not improving anywhere. Until we get a change in those fundamental factors, the long end doesn’t have an anchor.” www.ft.com/content/e6f5...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🪥 For the dentist who has everything... Dyson's first toothbrush went on sale today at £419.99. It has a camera that takes 28 pictures of your teeth a second and can livestream your gums to your phone (Tesco has two brushes for 25p) CameraJet™ www.dyson.co.uk/oral-care/el...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
⚽ Heeere we go! (in Romano's accent) Barcelona close to deal for Arsenal's Jesus BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Arsenal transfer news: Gabriel Jesus close to joining Barcelona
Barcelona are closing in on a move for Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus in a deal worth £8.6m.
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🍿 "Coyote Vs. Acme", a Warner Bros tax write-off before Ketchup Entertainment acquired the rights, has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95% Makes you wonder whether "Batgirl" and "Scoob! Holiday Haunt", two other unreleased Warner tax write-offs, are any good... SR screenrant.com/coyote-vs-ac...
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Coyote Vs. Acme Breaks All-Time Box Office Record Three Years After Warner Bros. Cancellation
It was cancelled in 2023 as a tax write-off.
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Totally normal... 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil FT www.ft.com/content/2f88...
ft.com
Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
The president says the countries’ joint venture will lower petrol prices for Americans
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ amid Canada trade war ⬇️ CNBC www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/t...
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Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' amid Canada trade war
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that he said will "immediately" change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🇺🇸 Stephen Miran, ex-Fed Board governor, says inflation expectations and term premium are contained, so the rise in Treasury yields is almost entirely down to one thing — investors betting the US economy grows faster 🔥 FT www.ft.com/content/a919...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🇬🇧 It's only a matter of time before heat overtakes cold as Britain's biggest weather killer FT chart shows the gap narrowing, with 2026 on course to be the UK's hottest summer on record @amyborrett.ft.com & @kenzabryan.ft.com London is the worst-hit area for heat deaths www.ft.com/content/5675...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🇺🇸 Apple's new Macs are eye-wateringly expensive -- top-spec Studio will set you back £18,299.00. (And it's the same price in dollars $18,299 for reasons I can't fathom) One suspects that the AI-driven demand for chip shortage is behind all this...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“It’s pissing me off that I like him”, is the top-rated comment on Burnham’s TikTok page
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🇨🇦 🇪🇺 Canada and Carney keenly wants what the UK discarded #Brexit
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 "WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US," Trump posted, doubling down on his spat with PM Carney -- threatening to hike tariffs on Canadian cars and auto parts to 50% from January 1 Canada, by the way, is the US's third-largest source of imports FT www.ft.com/content/5297...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🇺🇸 And you wonder why Democrats are unpopular despite Trump tanking in the polls… Jeffries and Kushner meet privately as midterm attacks fly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🇨🇦🇺🇸 Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade These are the “insights” you’re missing on X/Twitter… FT www.ft.com/content/e3b5...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And this is why you should have at least two or three corroborating sources before you break a news story 😸
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
⚽️ I took The Athletic’s 10-question quiz on what Premier League team I should support @minkfossa.bsky.social
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🇺🇸 A rare instance of corporate America growing a spine? Disney said the Trump administration “has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts” FT www.ft.com/content/c61e...
ft.com
Disney sues Trump administration over ‘retaliatory’ ABC licence review
US media giant accuses Federal Communications Commission of cracking down because it ‘disapproves’ of its broadcasts
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If Orla Kiely made trucks
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🇬🇧 Betting markets now expect Farage to win 40–60% of the vote in the Clacton by-election Meanwhile, Count Binface is expected to get between 20-30%, according to Polymarket Farage took 46% last time round against a full field
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is going down as well as you might expect www.ft.com/content/93dc...
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The renminbi’s hardest mile is only now beginning - @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social here on how China is trying to encourage investors to hold the RMB but why there is still one big obstacle to that www.ft.com/content/5fbd...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🎽 Having endured TNT's car crash of a Commonwealth Games -- paywalled and disjointed -- it's a joyful relief to watch the BBC's broadcast of the European Championships 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🇺🇸 Three billionaires -- Musk, Adelson, Mellon -- supplied more than a third of the roughly $1.5bn spent to elect Trump A reader under the FT's "America's new oligarchy" story asks on what basis the US calls itself the world's leading democracy FT www.ft.com/content/2472...
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I make it a "staggering" total of £55.77
A "jaw-dropping" list of everything asylum seakers in Thetford were 'given for free'. Total cost: £55.77
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
⚽️ Not sure this reflects well on Uefa or Mr Infantino Gianni Infantino’s ‘lover’ was paid off by Uefa Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2026/0...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🇺🇸 Will Warsh stand up for Cook like Powell did? FT www.ft.com/content/0012...
ft.com
Donald Trump revives threat to sack Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
Move comes after Supreme Court ruled in June that policymaker could remain in her position while case is resolved
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🇺🇸 US economy undershoots forecasts to shed 23,000 jobs in July Hiring numbers for May and June were also revised down by a combined 103,000, to 63,000 and 20,000 respectively FT www.ft.com/content/54ad...
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🇬🇧 This, er, isn't AI?
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🇺🇸 If you, like me, have been occasionally dipping into Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, you might be surprised: despite being heavily outspent, Abdul El-Sayed is odds-on to beat four-term congresswoman Haley Stevens, according to Polymarket As a Brit, I find this astonishing #Michigan
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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