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FINANCIAL TIMES News, Sep 25, 2011

Financial Times: Mobile web app more popular than iOS version
Fiercemobilecontent
The browser version of The Financial Times is more popular than the native FT app was. "People who are using the app are spending much more time with the content," FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw tells Reuters. "They are consuming about three ...
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PCC rules on dispute between Sir Stelios and FT
Financial Times
By Caroline Binham, Legal Correspondent A column in the Financial Times that described a dispute between Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and EasyJet contained factual inaccuracies but did not discriminate against the former chairman of the budget airline, ...
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Gove faces probe over private e-mails
Financial Times
By Chris Cook, Education Correspondent Michael Gove and his closest advisers are being investigated by the Information Commissioner after the Financial Times passed on evidence suggesting a systematic use of private e-mails, which conceal sensitive ...
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Financial Times
FT: Facebook Strikes Advertising Deal With Diageo
RTT News
L: News ) as part of the social networking website's efforts to forge close ties with marketers, theFinancial Times reported Sunday. According to the FT report, Diageo, which has been using Facebook for advertising and promotions for more than a year, ...
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IIM Ahmedabad ranked 7th in Financial Times' list
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA Already celebrating its 50th year of existence, IIM A added another feather to its cap after it was ranked seventh in the Financial Times(FT) Masters in Management 2011 Rankings. ...
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Ministers respond flexibly to £12bn hole
Financial Times
By Chris Giles, Economics Editor Ministers and the Treasury insisted on Monday that they would use all the flexibility in their budgetary rules to avoid immediate tax increases after the Financial Times revealed a new black hole in the public finances. ...
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The great euro swindle
Telegraph.co.uk
Let's examine the case of the Financial Times, which claims to be Britain's premier economic publication. About 25 years ago something went wrong with the FT. It ceased to be the dry, rigorous journal of economic record so respected under its great...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Siemens shelters up to €6bn at ECB
Financial Times
“We have no need at the moment for any recapitalisation,” Mr Pebereau told RTL. “The banks are holding up well ... We don't need any type of aid today.” Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Siemens.
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Financial Times
FT: EU Speeding Up Plans to Recapitalize 16 Banks
Fox Business
European officials look set to speed up plans to recapitalize the 16 banks that came close to failing last summer's pan-EU stress tests, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing European officials. The report said the move would affect mostly ...
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Energy companies 'want inquiry'
The Press Association
According to the Financial Times (FT), npower, part of German group RWE, now believes that mistrust of the industry by the public is such that a formal investigation may be the only way to restore it. Volker Beckers, chief executive of RWE npower, ...
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FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store
Moneycontrol.com
By Jennifer Saba REUTERS - More than 700000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. The business newspaper, which is part of ...
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UBS overhaul plan to be accelerated: FT
MarketWatch
... plans to accelerate changes to the business's size and structure following the Swiss group's discovery of $2.3 billion in unauthorised trading losses, the Financial Times reports on its website. Citing unnamed sources, the FT says Kengeter, ...
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Financial Times launches Chinese microsite for 'Women at the Top'
Media Newsline
This initiative uses the FT's exclusive access to global business leaders to explore challenges and issues faced by influential women in organisations across a multitude of sectors,” said Angela Mackay, managing director for the Financial Times in Asia ...
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Gates Says Transaction Tax Could Generate $50 Billion, FT Says
Bloomberg
Chairman Bill Gates said in draft report to the G20, the Financial Times reported today. To contact the reporter on this story: Caroline Alexander in London at calexander1@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. ...
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Polish universities feature in prestigious FT ranking
Warsaw Business Journal
Two Polish universities were included in the Financial Times' 2011 ranking of the top masters in management courses offered by business schools around the world. The ranking compares programs in management or related courses in 65 different ...
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London Metal Exchange Bidders Include CME, SGX and ICE, FT Says
Bloomberg
... Financial Times reported today, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter. The LME may be worth more than 1 billion pounds, according to the London-based newspaper. The illiquid shares of the exchange last traded at 70 pounds, the FT ...
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September 2011 Update for TIGER: Tracking Indexes for Global Economic Recovery
Brookings Institution
Editor's Note: In collaboration with the Financial Times (FT), Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda of Brookings have developed a set of composite indexes which track the global economic recovery. TheFinancial Times has produced the Tracking Indexes for the ...
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French pride dented as banks suffer
Financial Times
“If Greece crashes, French banks really do have the means to survive a crash like that,” one government official told the Financial Times. “They have sufficient funds to recover from a Greek default.” Moreover, the European Central Bank has pledged to ...
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Peter Oborne attacks BBC and FT for pro-euro bias
First Post
By Nigel Horne YOU CAN'T keep Peter Oborne out of the radio studios today as he hawks his pamphlet Guilty Men around town. In it, the Daily Telegraph political pundit alleges that the CBI, the BBC, the Financial Times and a slew of politicians and ...
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First Post
'FT' source said to be from White House
Taipei Times
The official called the Financial Times to claim that Tsai had left US President Barack Obama's administration with “distinct concerns” about her ability to maintain stability in the Taiwan Strait. The resulting story has been seen as particularly ...
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Economic crisis: a time for cool heads, not conspiracy theories
The Guardian (blog)
Oborne's thesis (sorry, Frances Weaver, I'm sure you worked hard – but it sounds like him, not you) is that the three most guilty institutions in the plot are the Financial Times, the CBI – headed, until this spring, by an ex-FT editor – and, ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Lloyds's Tookey to Resign, to Join Friends Life as CFO, FT Says
Bloomberg
By Blanche Gatt - Sun Sep 18 19:54:09 GMT 2011 Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) Finance Director Tim Tookey is to resign and join Friends Life as chief financial officer, the Financial Timesreported, without saying where it got the information. ...
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Philosopher for the modern capitalist
Financial Times
Sir, Only the Financial Times would have the intellectual confidence in today's world to put a philosopher in a headline (“Beware a Hegelian touch of regulatory hubris”, September 15). But of course the hubris of Hegel, who at least grounded his ...
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Cognetas portfolio targeted by investor-FT
Reuters
Sept 21 (Reuters) - A European financial investor has made a proposal to buy out the portfolio of companies in a fund of private equity group Cognetas, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cited people close to the situation as ...
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Tiffany eyes further diamond mine funding
Financial Times
Michael Kowalski, Tiffany's chief executive, told the Financial Times it was ready to repeat an unusual deal struck this year to lend $50m to a mine in Sierra Leone in exchange for the right to buy its rough diamonds. “We have recognised that it may be...
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Financial Times
Mario Draghi: Set to inherit an ECB in crisis
Financial Times
“It was a situation that was certainly worse than one could ever imagine today,” he recalled in an interview with the Financial Times last year. Mr Draghi helped implement a strict fiscal austerity plan and catastrophe was averted. ...
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European Central Banks Are Net Buyers of Gold in 2011, FT Says
Bloomberg
By Alan Purkiss - Mon Sep 19 05:32:28 GMT 2011 European central banks have added 0.8 of a metric ton of gold to their reserves so far this year, according to European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund figures, the Financial Times reported. ...
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Frankel piles pressure on Gove
Financial Times
Responding to evidence uncovered by the Financial Times suggesting avoidance of the Freedom of Information Act by the office of Michael Gove, education secretary, Maurice Frankel, director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, said: “It seems to ...
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FT names investigations and special projects editor
Press Gazette
By Press Gazette The Financial Times has appointed Christine Spolar as to the newly-created role of investigations and special projects editor. She joins the paper from Bloomberg News where she was economy/enterprise editor. “Spolar will work closely ...
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Volcker Rule Draft Said To Allow For Repo Transactions, Lending-FT
Wall Street Journal
US regulators, in a draft of rules governing the Volcker rule, are proposing to carve out exemptions for so-called repo transactions and securities lending, the Financial Times reported Sunday on its website, citing a copy of the draft seen by the ...
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Shell targets North American 'tight oil'
Financial Times
Europe's biggest oil and gas company by market capitalisation has not yet talked about its plans but Peter Voser, its chief executive, told the Financial Times that it was “making progress to have the right size of opportunity”. ...
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Financial Times
$23bn windfall for new Libya
Financial Times
... has enjoyed a surprise windfall that will help finance the country's post-war recovery after discovering $23bn-worth of assets that were unspent by Col Muammer Gaddafi's regime, officials in London and Tripoli have told the Financial Times. ...
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Financial Times
Credit card spending slows
Financial Times
Figures from the UK Cards Association, passed to the Financial Times, reveal that debit cards outnumber credit cards, indicating a big change in consumer attitudes to spending and borrowing during the past decade. Between 2000 and 2005 credit card use ...
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FT: Investors Bet Miners to Follow Gold Rush
NewsMax.com
"It's something that everybody is thinking about at the moment," says Evy Hambro, manager of asset manager BlackRock's Gold & General fund, one of the largest gold funds, according to the Financial Times. "A lot of our clients are switching out of the ...
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Greece Should Default, Leave Eurozone, Roubini Writes in FT
Bloomberg
... orderly default and leave the Eurozone, in order to break a “vicious cycle of insolvency, low competitiveness and ever deepening depression,” Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC, writes in the Financial Times. ...
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British public debt
Financial Times
A Financial Times analysis has found that, on the government's own methodology, the structural deficit is £12bn larger than the last Budget assumed. Other bodies, including the International Monetary Fund, have reached similar conclusions. ...
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FT launches round one of Swiss sale, CVC's involvement unknown
TeleGeography
The involvement of FT's local rival, Sunrise, in the bidding process is currently unclear. According to the UK's Financial Times, CVC Capital Partners, the owner of Sunrise, will be allowed to take part despite fears of regulatory intervention – in ...
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High deficit exposes Turkey to shocks
Financial Times
... Turkey is vulnerable to external shocks because of its high current account deficit, but the risk will diminish as the economy slows from its blistering rate of growth, Mehmet Simsek, the country's finance minister, has told the Financial Times. ...
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Financial Times
Via Reuters, Financial Times claims Web-based app more popular ...
By MacDailyNews
“More than 700000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access newsand other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store,” Jennifer Saba reports for Reuters. MacDailyNews .... Folks should bear in mind that every time you open the FTapp today, the first thing you have to deal with is an annoying popup that says “FT has moved to the web, please hit this button to convert your FT subscription” or whatever. I hit cancel each ...
MacDailyNews
The UK structural deficit | Money Supply | News, data and opinions ...
By Chris Giles
The top economics writers at the Financial Times share insights into the global economy, and the central bankers and policymakers who shape it. Economics blog with data and graphics.
Money Supply
Eurozone countries can't afford more fiscal stimulus | The A-List ...
By Jean Pisani-Ferry
The A-List from the Financial Times provides timely, insightful comment on the topics that matter, from globally renowned leaders, policymakers and commentators.
The A-List
The not-so-quiet Americans | Brussels blog | News on the European ...
By Peter Spiegel
Brussels blog from the Financial Times covering the EU's foreign and economic policies and news on the European Commission and European parliament. ... The Fed pumped dollars into European banks, Timothy Geithner pleaded with EU finance ministers to take quick action, and in today's FTformer Obama administration economic major-domo Larry Summers warned that incrementalism in the eurozone is akin to the slow bleeding of the Vietnam war. It seems like the week the ...
Brussels blog
Nouriel Roubini | The A-List | Must-read views on today's top news ...
The A-List from the Financial Times provides timely, insightful comment on the topics ... Portfolio ·FT Lexicon · Special Reports · In depth · Today's Newspaper ...
blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/guest-author/nouriel-roubini/
Financial Times announces three editorial appointments | About us ...
The Financial Times today announces three editorial appointments, ... the globe to spearhead in-depth investigative reports for the newspaper and FT.com. ...
aboutus.ft.com/.../financial-times-announces-three-editorial-ap...
Financial Times looks to Sightsavers for its Seasonal Appeal | About ...
The Financial Times has selected international development charity Sightsavers for its ... Articles will appear in the newspaper and online at www.ft.com/appeal. ...
aboutus.ft.com/.../financial-times-looks-to-sightsavers-for-its-s...
FT Alphaville » Snap news - FT Alphaville - Financial Times
ft.com/alphaville All times are London time. Welcome Your AccountSign Out ... Breaking pre-marketnews on Monday,. - Societe Generale announces plans to ...
ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/09/12/674396/snap-news-835/
FT Alphaville » Snap news
ft.com/alphaville All times are London time. Welcome Your AccountSign Out ... Breaking pre-marketnews on Wednesday,. - Lloyds of London announces half ...
ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/09/21/682021/snap-news-842/
FT Alphaville » 2011 » September » 22
ft.com/alphaville All times are London time ... Another big equity selloff today, with financialsleading the pack down; in other words, the perfect setting for I-banks ...
ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/09/22/
Iran funds siphoned to Malaysia, says Financial Times - Yahoo! News
Read 'Iran funds siphoned to Malaysia, says Financial Times' on Yahoo! ... be invested in countries that include Malaysia, the Financial Times (FT) reported today.
my.news.yahoo.com/iran-funds-siphoned-to-malaysia-says-fin...
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