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Issue No. 4,012 — Published every morning, 6 a.m. ET.
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Inside Today's Issue

A standfirst from the editor's desk.

We open today with a closely sourced piece on the central-bank coordination meeting scheduled for Friday — what three governors are expected to argue for, what two will oppose, and the rate-path language most likely to leak. Our European trade desk has the new figures on cross-Channel shipping volumes, which are quietly off ten percent year-on-year and almost nobody has noticed.

In Asia-Pacific, we follow the parliamentary committee in Tokyo that is preparing to question two former regulators about the loan-portfolio decisions of a regional bank. The story has been simmering for weeks; today's filing window is when it finally turns into a hearing.

Our long read is a 1,800-word profile of the night-shift editor who has filed every single Daily Briefing since the launch issue in March 2014. She has missed two days — once for a power outage in the newsroom, once for the birth of her daughter — and was on the phone both times. The piece is about craft, but it is also about what "one issue, one day" actually costs the people who make it.

Plus: a short note on a new climate-disclosure rule in California, the morning's markets open in four charts, and a closing essay on the slow death of the work email. Six minutes, twelve seconds. One issue.

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