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FINANCIAL TIMES News, Jul 14, 2013

Financial Times to be replaced?
iAfrica.com
The Financial Times (FT) will soon cease publication of its weekend edition in South Africa amid speculation that China Daily's Africa Edition will function as its replacement. Speaking on The Money Show on Tuesday evening, Wits journalism Professor ...
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FT's Shane Todd article 'irresponsible and sensationalist'
Straits Times
Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin has slammed the original Financial Times (FT) report on American researcher Shane Todd's death as "irresponsible" and "sensationalist". The February report by journalist Raymond Bonner suggested that Dr Todd ...
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Lunch with the Financial Times
Boing Boing
The Financial Times has regular feature called Lunch with the FT in which a columnist takes someone out for lunch and a long chat, and then reports on both the lunch and the talk. I sat down recently with Tim Harford for very nice steaks and cheap wine ...
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FT Urges Business Schools To Stop Teaching 'The World's Dumbest Idea'
Forbes
Two important articles have just appeared the Financial Times urging business schools to abandon teaching the obsolete shareholder value theory, which even its most prominent exemplar, Jack Welch, has called “the dumbest idea in the world.” One article ...
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The 6am Cut London
FT Alphaville
Yet Spain and Portugal will see slightly higher interest rates, according to FT analysis of ECB data. (Financial Times). The US government has officially designated AIG and GE Capital as “systemically important” financial institutions that will have to ...
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Lawyers on Demand recruits FT GC Tim Bratton
The Lawyer
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)-backed alternative legal services provider Lawyers on Demand (LoD) has recruited Financial Times (FT) general counsel Tim Bratton as practice development director. Tim Bratten. Bratton announced his departure from the FT ...
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Pearson denies report about plan to sell FT to Murdoch
Oman Tribune
However, a Pearson spokesman said that “The Financial Times is not for sale, and Pearson is not in any talks to sell it”, adding that the FT remained an “important” part of Pearson's strategy. The report said financing details and shareholding ...
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FT: Geithner Receives Up to $400000 for 3 Speeches
Moneynews
He received as much as $400,000 for three recent speeches, knowledgeable sources tell the Financial Times. That places Geithner at the top of the fee scale for event speakers, grouping him with luminaries such as President Bill Clinton and former U.K. ...
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Coca-Cola to Launch Slim Cans ??? FT - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
The Financial Times recently reported that cola giant The Coca-Cola Company ( KO ) will launch smaller and slimmer versions of its Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero brands of soft drink cans in U.K. later this month. Coca-Cola will launch a 250 ml can ...
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EP Acts As "Prosecutor & Judge", Says Hungary's Minister Győri In FT's ...
XpatLoop.com
The Financial Times' "BeyondBrics" blog published on Tuesday included an article by Minister of State for European Affairs Enikő Győri explaining why pointing the finger at Hungary in the European Parliament was unfounded and biased. The unfounded ...
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FT: US and EU open talks on transatlantic trade pact
Focus News
... have taken the first steps in high-stakes negotiations to craft a transatlantic trade agreement, with the initial round of talks focusing on cutting barriers to trade and harmonising regulations across a swath of economic activity, the Financial ...
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Vivendi Considers Cash Move On Activision Blizzard : FT
RTT News
L) is said to be exploring other alternatives to extract cash from its Activision Blizzard (ATVI: Quote) unit, following talks with the video games maker to sell a portion of its stake in the business have fallen apart, according to Financial Times ...
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Operators warn of investment cuts if EU roaming fees scrapped – report
Mobile World Live
Operator executives have reacted angrily after the Financial Times (FT) drew their attention to unpublished draft legislation from Neelie Kroes, the EU digital commissioner, which seeks to scrap roaming charges by next year. According to the newspaper ...
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Plans to eliminate roaming within EU leaked
GoMo News
Charging difference should approach zero says Kroes. According to plans leaked to the Financial Times(FT), the EU's commissioner for telecoms – Neelie Kroes, is seeking to eliminate roaming charges between the 28 countries in the European Union (EU).
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The Closer
FT Alphaville
FT markets round-up: “Global equities maintained their upward momentum as investors took heart from a solid start to the US corporate earnings season and appeared to put concerns about Federal Reserve policy to one side. ... interbank rate formally ...
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EU moves to curb executive pay at bailed-out banks
Financial Times
... as a rule, require shareholders to be wiped out and junior creditors to bear heavy losses. Copyright TheFinancial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and redistribute by email or post to ...
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Claims that Shane Todd was murdered was based on 'untruths': Shanmugam
Straits Times
He said that the Financial Times (FT) - which published a report about the case in February that was largely based on the belief of Dr Todd's family that he was murdered - should "do the honourable thing" and correct the untruths that it had reported ...
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Markets Insight: Fire drill exposes risk of bond market pile-up
Financial Times
The Financial Times has reported how exchange traded funds – which replicate the returns of different assets but, like stocks, are easily bought and sold – have come under scrutiny. The industry insists, however, that the apparatus behind ETFs worked ...
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New chief to secure £1bn savings in Whitehall overhaul
Financial Times
... business of delivering policies while support functions were managed from the centre. Copyright TheFinancial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.
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U.K. Survey Finds Corporate Boards Aren't Taking Cyber Risk Seriously
eSecurity Planet
According to the results of a recent survey of FTSE 350 company secretaries by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) and the Financial Times (FT), while almost all respondents said the risk from cybercrime is increasing, 79 ...
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Unicredit to rely on local partners in Asia, Latin America-FT
Reuters
MILAN, July 8 (Reuters) - Italy's Unicredit will rely on partnerships with local banks to fill in the gaps in the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America rather than developing a full business there, its head of investment banking told the Financial ...
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Todd family's allegations untrue: Shanmugam
AsiaOne
Told that the Financial Times (FT) had stood by its February report which suggested that Dr Todd had been murdered, Mr Shanmugam said: "The responsible thing to do would be acknowledge that the original article was full of inaccuracies." Asked in a ...
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Meredith Whitney's two big calls extend her time in the limelight
MarketWatch (blog)
But as Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times writes in the “Lunch with the FT” series about her meal with Meredith Whitney, the backlash against this particular analyst has been particularly personal. The story, somewhat sympathetic yet also critical ...
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An attempt to cast certain risks as venal (yet again)
Financial Times
... Alessandro Ciravegna. Sir, John Gapper (“Regulators are finally catching up with banks”, July 4) makes the same points, in both substance and tone, on the risks banks pose to the financial system that have appeared in the pages of the FT countless ...
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US banks face tougher borrowing rules
Financial Times
If approved, the regulation would be effective at the start of 2018. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Share; Clip ...
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American Legion Post 164 set to host Ice Cream Social
Katy Times
The event will take place at the Katy Elks Lodge #2628 located at 1050 Katy Fort Bend Road. Doors open at 6 p.m. and will remain open until 8 p.m.. Because financial times are difficult for many, the Post is reducing its prices for the event. Cost for ...
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IMF slashes global growth forecasts
Financial Times
... reflected a new assumption that sequestration of public spending will continue into 2014. Copyright TheFinancial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and redistribute by email or post to ...
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A long-awaited delivery for Royal Mail
Financial Times
Royal Mail just wants to get on with it. john.mcdermott@ft.com · Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Share; Clip ...
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King & Co Formula One Topiary Piece to Be Featured in FT's How to Spend It ...
SBWire (press release)
Essex, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/10/2013 -- The Financial Times launched the publication over fifteen years ago to fill the gap in the market for luxury lifestyle magazines. Boasting editorial input from some of the country's top-tier writers, photographers ...
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As Clients Walk Away, Meredith Whitney Eats An Expensive Lunch
Barron's (blog)
The other Whitney story comes courtesy of the Financial Times, which profiled Whitney over the weekend by way of its “Lunch With The FT” fixture. The FT's Lucy Kellaway offers a more intimate look at Whitney as lunch companion, starting with Whitney's ...
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Surveyors predict rise in UK house prices
Financial Times
... reported prices rose rather than fell in June – the strongest reading since January 2010. Copyright TheFinancial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and redistribute by email or post to ...
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TPG Capital buys owner of Times Educational Supplement
Financial Times
The group is instead focusing on other areas including real estate in Europe. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Share ...
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Smart Reads July 10, 2013
FT.com (blog)
The FT's Roula Khalaf says that Algeria's bloody civil war – which lasted for a decade after the military cancelled an Islamist poll victory in 1991 – has lessons for all sides in Egypt: for the military to not repress the Islamists, for the Islamists ...
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Scottish government says no place for Trident in independent state
Financial Times
... wanted nor needed, and that the sensible option would be to decommission them instead. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and redistribute by email or post to the ...
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Markets feast on 'good news is bad news' - FT.com
Bad economic news is good news if it means more central bank action to ... The Financial Times Ltd 2013 FT and 'Financial Times' are trademarks of The ...
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