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...A full list of Neil Collins’ financial interests can be found at www.ft.com/collinsportfolio neil.collins@ft.com...
...www.ft.com/tradingroom...
...stake Rosneft made a formal offer to buy out TNK-BP minority shareholders on Monday, six months after it signed a deal to buy out TNK-BP’s main shareholders. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b3f1f30-29a6-11e3-...
...Now the People’s Liberation Army is also turning to the stock market to help propel China’s ambitious naval expansion plans. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4f27d80a-1abb-11e3-a605-00144feab7de.html China...
...MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.49% at 459.52 CNX Nifty down 0.00% at 5,851 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 99.67 (99.54) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.25 at 112.38 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.87 at 107.73...
...put improved security and bright new colours ahead of aggressive price cuts at the launch of its latest iPhone models, as it sought to broaden its appeal without compromising its premium brand. http://www.ft.com...
...New figures from Korea’s National Statistical Office showed output jump 1.8 per cent in August, pulling up the year-over-year gain to 3.3 per cent from 0.9 per cent in July. http://www.ft.com/fastft?...
...fund manager, reported a sharp rise in profits and revenues on Tuesday despite turbulence in the developing world since the US central bank signalled the possible end of quantitative easing. http://www.ft.com...
...elected Islamist government is fading and Egyptians must now reckon with an economy that remains in crisis, despite a large injection of financial aid promised by Gulf states supportive of the coup. http://www.ft.com...
...Mrs Moneypenny returns to the Edinburgh Fringe in August at the Aga Showroom; www.edfringe.com mrsmoneypenny@ft.com...
...Asian stocks extend gains for third day Asian shares extended gains for a third day on improving economic data from Japan and the US, and on fading fears of an early end to US monetary stimulus. http://www.ft.com...
...Further coverage from Nigel Andrews in Venice at www.ft.com/film...
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...The hope is that Palawan’s fragile beauty can withstand the new tide. ——————————————- Maya Jaggi was a guest of Audley Travel (www.audleytravel.com), which can arrange tailor-made itineraries to the Philippines...
...www.fixedincomeinvestor.co.uk www.ravenrussia.com/securities-information ——————————————- Beware the coupon reset Pibs pay fixed rates of interest (coupons), but unlike most bonds they do not generally...
...Monday added to a growing global pile of trade disputes over renewable energy, starting a World Trade Organisation case against the EU over solar power generation programmes in Italy and Greece. http://www.ft.com...
...unveil new leaders President Hu Jintao opened the Chinese Communist party’s 18th congress on Thursday morning, as the country takes the final step towards unveiling its next generation of leaders. http://www.ft.com...
...Brazil’s government proposed compensating utilities a total of about 19bn reais ($9.4bn) for next year’s renewal of generation and transmission contracts that were to end between 2015 and 2017. http://www.bloomberg.com...
...Communist party has outlined a deeply conservative vision for the future of the world’s most populous nation, insisting that state dominance of the economy and one-party rule will be maintained. http://www.ft.com...
...of the African National Congress will decline amid public “despondency” if the ruling party fails to renew itself according to Kgalema Motlanthe, the country’s deputy president, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com...
...ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmarkets_emerging%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/40b98a72-22c6-11e2-8edf-00144feabdc0.html?...
...feelings” about Rosneft’s $55bn takeover of TNK-BP and insisted Russia’s government had not initiated the biggest return of oil industry assets to state control for two decades, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com...
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