Innovations in Sustainability and Design: Beer Cans and Couture

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https://www.ft.com/content/dd3aef66-5189-4b85-873a-e82c80be3c2d

Global financial markets are jittery about the possible default of indebted Chinese property developer Evergrande but the FT’s markets editor Katie Martin explains why it is unlikely to be another Lehman Brothers; foreign investors, especially from China and Japan, have become major buyers of US Treasuries and could prop up the market if the Fed withdraws; and Coinbase backed down from launching a new lending product after US regulators threatened to sue. 

Wall Street stocks sell off as Evergrande crisis intensifies

https://www.ft.com/content/952923b7-f421-407e-b14a-ad2ff190a134

Foreign investors help prop up Treasury market as Fed considers retreat 

https://www.ft.com/content/47551bfb-8ca3-4e73-b34b-0ad19905ae15

Shell agrees $9.5bn sale of Permian Basin oil business to ConocoPhillips

https://www.ft.com/content/33e48318-91ab-47e4-88f3-72986b0a85f6

Coinbase abandons lending product after SEC pushback

https://www.ft.com/content/bd09f8bf-e65b-4870-affe-55b5346af3e1

Rusal strikes deal to supply Budweiser with ultra low-carbon cans

https://www.ft.com/content/ff76ebe5-ca61-417c-b191-1a2c152a935e

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