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Panama’s president rebuffed Donald Trump’s threat to reimpose US control over the Panama Canal, saying its shipping tolls aren’t inflated and that sovereignty over the waterway isn’t negotiable. “Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be,” President José Raúl Mulino said Sunday in a video statement on X, the social platform. In corporate news, Nissan Motor and Honda Motor agreed to start talks to merge under a holding company, which they plan to list in Aug. 2026. The two Japanese auto manufacturers signed a basic agreement for merger talks on Monday and held a joint media briefing in Tokyo. Honda also said it will buy back as much as ¥1.1 trillion yen ($7 billion) of its own shares.

Today’s guests: Paul Hollingsworth, BNP Paribas; Bruce Findlay, Land Securities Group
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00:00:27 – Honda, Nissan to start merger talks
00:02:42 – VW and union agree to cut capacity
00:04:27 – Paul Hollingsworth, BNP Paribas
00:11:59 – French government deadline nears
00:15:57 – Trump in feud with Panama over canal control
00:20:55 – Novo Nordisk jumps after record fall
00:25:33 – Bruce Findlay, Landsec
00:32:11 – Monday top stories
00:36:46 – UK economy and markets in 2024
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