When the hedge fund Elliott Management pursued the acquisition of the oil refinery business Citgo a few years ago, the deal was already a complicated one. A US court had ordered its current owner, Venezuela, to sell the business, and the country was not happy about it. But, things only got thornier after the US President Donald Trump removed the Caribbean nation’s leader Nicolás Maduro. The FT’s US investment correspondent Amelia Pollard and hedge fund correspondent Costas Mourselas explain how Elliott often thrives pursuing complex deals, and how they might navigate closing this one.

Clips from Citgo, CNN, Norges Bank Investment Management, The White House, VTV

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Donald Trump’s removal of Maduro clouds fate of Elliott’s Citgo deal

How Venezuela lost Citgo

Hedge funds hunt for Venezuela’s unpaid financial claims

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US President Donald Trump on Friday made his pick to lead the Federal Reserve: Kevin Warsh. The former central bank governor with ties to Wall Street is seen as a mainstream pick. Still, some economists say if Warsh is confirmed, he will trigger a sweeping rethink of the Fed’s role at the centre of the world’s biggest economy. The FT’s US economics editor Claire Jones explains who Warsh is, what he wants to do at the Fed, and how it might go.

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Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Fed chair to spark rethink of bank’s role

Kevin Warsh, the Fed chair nominee shaped by the 2008 financial crisis

How Kevin Warsh won the race to become Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair

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For more than 170 years, Wells Fargo built a reputation as an all-American Main Street lender. Now, it is charting a new path and pushing into investment banking, something that many other banks have tried and failed to do. The FT’s US banking editor Joshua Franklin and US banking correspondent Akila Quinio discuss what Wells Fargo does — and doesn’t have — going for it as it pursues this strategy.

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For further reading:

Wells Fargo wants to be taken seriously as an investment bank. Will it succeed?

Wells Fargo has finally shed its dunce cap

Netflix leans on $59bn bank loan to fund Warner Bros takeover

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