⚽ Every World Cup 2026 match, live All 12 groups, A to L | Knockout bracket on a toggle Dark mode, fast, no ads, no bloat, just the whole tournament on one screen Bookmark: raydouglas.co.uk/worldcup2026/ #WorldCup 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇨🇦 🇵🇹 🇨🇭🇲🇦 🇵🇦 🇧🇪 🇿🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇵

🇧🇪🇸🇳 Afcon final, part II #BELSEN

Wow! 😯

🇺🇸 US Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end birthright citizenship A 5-4 ruling is surprisingly close... FT www.ft.com/content/8ee0...

The Magnificent Seven group of megacap tech stocks has shed more than $2.3tn of value this month. Meanwhile, the companies that benefit from their multibillion-dollar AI spending on chips and hardware are enjoying "off the charts" gains. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Q2FUkGI

🇧🇷🇯🇵 There’s an air of inevitability about this match Japan are one of the best teams to watch but I can’t see them beating Braaaazil 🪇 #BRAJPN

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇦 Seeing that it’s pouring at the New Jersey Stadium, is there a need for a “hydration break”? #PANENG #WorldCup

🇫🇷 🇳🇴 One of the worst pens I’ve seen #WorldCup #FRANOR

⚽ Every World Cup 2026 match, live All 12 groups, A to L | Knockout bracket on a toggle Dark mode, fast, no ads, no bloat, just the whole tournament on one screen Bookmark: raydouglas.co.uk/worldcup2026/ #WorldCup 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇨🇦 🇵🇹 🇨🇭🇲🇦 🇵🇦 🇧🇪 🇿🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇵

🇺🇸 Say what??? “The AI company’s advisers are pushing its chief executive, Sam Altman, to move slowly after SpaceX’s stock has been volatile and as the start-up grapples with financial challenges” NYTImes www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/t... ve

🇬🇧 10 years on, mainstream economists are still grilled over their Brexit warnings, even though they were largely right writes @chrisgiles.ft.com The economy is in, fact, now 6-8% smaller than if the UK had stayed But the experts on the other side? Woefully wrong FT www.ft.com/content/f99c...

🇺🇸 Apple whacks up the price of its gear "The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,” said the iPhone maker CNBC www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/a...

🇺🇸 From $1.9bn to $28.2bn in a year Micron's quarterly profit jumped almost 15-fold as an AI-driven memory shortage pushed gross margins to 85% The chipmaker now expects ~$50bn in current-quarter sales, well ahead of forecasts This, unsurprisingly, lifted chip stocks FT www.ft.com/content/9b73...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇧🇷 Me watching Scotland #WorldCup #SCOBRA

🇬🇧 Abbas Sajwani, son of the ‘Donald of Dubai’ (Hussain Sajwani) is the buyer of The Holme, a £190mn London mansion The unknown vendor made around £40mn to £50m on the sale, having bought the 40-bedroom pad for £139mn two years ago FT www.ft.com/content/6d08...

🇺🇸 Crypto is creaking Bitcoin has just breached $60k, falling to a 20-month low of $59062.84, according to LSEG data

🚙 Marketing chief is not the problem here...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇭 England did everything but score a goal Stoic defending by the Black Stars #WorldCup #ENGGHA

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇭 Possession-wise, this is the most one-sided half I’ve seen at this World Cup England aren’t playing badly; the Black Stars are just defending well #WorldCup #ENGGHA

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇭 I presume the reason the referee didn’t call a “hydration break” when a player was injured was because it didn’t coincide with a predetermined ad break #WorldCup

🇬🇧 Ten years after the "take back control" vote... EU net migration went negative. Non-EU migration hit a record 1m+. Britain is still living in Brexit's shadow, writes the NYTimes Link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/w... #Brexit

🇨🇻 🇺🇾 Cape Verde had 34% possession but had twice the number of shots on target as Uruguay Cape Verde population: approx. 540,000 | Uruguay: 3.5mn #URUCPV | #WorldCup

🇬🇧 I'm sure Starmer is chuffed with Trump...

🇩🇪🇨🇮 Such an undeserved win Unlucky Ivory Coast #WorldCup

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇲🇦 Tartan Army deserves better Scotland didn’t have a single shot on target against Morocco #WorldCup #SCOMAR

⚽️ Margaritha came on for Curaçao, a team managed by Advocaat #GERCUW 🇩🇪🇨🇼 #WorldCup

Wall Street consensus estimates for hyperscaler free cash flow. Provides a good snapshot of where the market's head is at, I think:

Great chart in that column via @raydouglas.bsky.social - and importantly Sinder points the earnings have been strong outside the AI giants www.ft.com/content/81dc...

One of the most dystopian charts I’ve ever seen

From John Plender's FT column: "At the same time, Treasury funding is increasingly reliant on shorter-term securities, which means constant rollover risk. With US public debt approaching its highest ever level, this combination sounds like the very ... 1 of 2

⚽ Four years ago: a wall of fury over Qatar's World Cup -- "slave labour", human rights, a jailed whistleblower This week PSG retains the Champions League and barely a word @migueldelaney.bsky.social on how state money became fully accepted in football → www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

🇺🇸 Nvidia unveils PC ‘superchip’ in challenge to Apple and Intel FT → www.ft.com/content/58f9... What could possibly go wrong ↓

⚽ Only one team scored from open play... #Arsenal #COYG #AFC #Gunners #Championsleague #UCL

⚽ More than 400,000 following the final via the BBC (This match really should be free-to-air) #Arsenal #COYG #AFC #Gunners #Championsleague #UCL

⚽ Don't think Arsenal can defend another 45 mins against PSG's firepower. Gunners need another goal if they are to secure victory #Arsenal #COYG #AFC #Gunners #Championsleague #UCL

⚽ Liverpool sack Arne Slot a year after he won the title in his first season He goes as Premier League manager tenures hit a record low -- the average sacked boss lasted 0.87 years, the shortest in LMA records. Nine dismissed this season Reflects a "hire and fire culture", says LMA

British economist and former financial trader Gary Stevenson -- or is it impressionist Tony Lapidus? -- gives advice on preparing for a global oil crisis #GaryStevenson #GarysEconomics

🇬🇧 🇮🇷 US carries out fresh strikes on Iran "Looks like more fire than cease," says FT commentator Americans strike on southern Iran, with Centcom downing four drones and hitting a ground control station near Bandar Abbas Brent +2% to $96 FT www.ft.com/content/de9e...

⚽️ Well done Palace ⚽️ Not a vintage performance — clearly nervous — but it’s done

🇬🇧 BP has ousted chair Albert Manifold less than a year in, citing 'serious concerns' over governance, oversight and conduct Last month, around 18% of investors voted against his re-election Shares down 5% FT www.ft.com/content/e63d...

🇺🇸 Trump in 1987: "The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it" Trump in 2026: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell" Tehran had the leverage. The emerging deal looks worse than Obama's FT Opinion www.ft.com/content/24cd...

⚽ 36 points is usually enough to stay up in the Premier League West Ham have just been relegated on 39 -- the highest tally by a relegated side since Birmingham City went down on the same total in 2010-11

⚽ Starmer urges TNT to make Champions League final free-to-air 🤔 I wonder what reason was given for not allowing the Champions League final to be added to the "crown jewels" list? BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

⚽ That's the sound of the EFL breathing a sigh of relief...

🇸🇪 To quote an FT commentator: "A whole bunch of things nobody asked for and nobody needs" Spotify and Universal Music have struck a deal allowing listeners to create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs FT → www.ft.com/content/016f...

Good morning

TCI 26Q1 full portfolio, per Chris Hohn FT interview www.ft.com/content/521d...

🇬🇧 Net migration to the UK almost halved to 171,000 last year, the lowest since 2021 But half the public still thinks it's rising A 47% drop in non-EU arrivals did the work, after care visa curbs and higher salary thresholds By Delphine Strauss @amyborrett.ft.com FT → www.ft.com/content/4e8b...

Arsenal are running out of opportunities to lose the premiership. Really in last chance saloon now.

🔥 When the community note contains a burn... #TrumpMobile