The medical bills hurting China’s economy

医疗费用正在伤害中国的经济。

FT News Briefing

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2025-02-27

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Nvidia’s revenues soared in the quarter to the end of January as demand for its AI-focused chips boomed, healthcare costs are dragging down the Chinese economy, and BP is turning its main focus back to fossil fuels. Plus, America’s investors are putting money in English football’s lower leagues.  Mentioned in this podcast: Nvidia revenues jump almost 80% on booming AI chip sales Why ‘catastrophic’ medical bills are hurting China’s economy BP pivots back to oil and gas after ‘misplaced’ faith in green energy Wealthy overseas owners drive record spend in English football’s lower leagues The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Ethan Plotkin, Lulu Smyth, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Michela Tindera, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Good morning from the Financial Times.

  • Today is Thursday, February 27th.

  • This is your FT news briefing.

  • Nvidia saw its revenues soar last quarter

  • and the high cost of health care in China is hurting the country's economy.

  • Plus, US investors are kicking a lot of cash into UK football,

  • and a lot of smaller clubs are seeing the benefits.

  • If you're a billionaire and you want to dabble in owning a football club,

  • it's quite cheap, pretty low risk, but you can have some fun along the way.

  • I'm Mark Filippino and here's the news you need to start your day.

  • Nvidia reported quarterly earnings yesterday and the chip maker really outdid itself.

  • The company said its sales increased 78% year over year to more than $39 billion.

  • That blew Wall street expectations out of the water.

  • Nvidia expects that it will bring in around 43 billion in revenue this quarter,

  • which is what analysts more or less expect.

  • Investors were happy with what they saw.

  • Nvidia's share price rose around 2.5% in after hours trading.

  • Over the past two decades,

  • China has expanded its health care coverage to about 95% of its population.

  • Health care coverage for children,