FINANCIAL TIMES News, Mar 25, 2012

US regulator points finger over Freddie and Fannie Financial Times In an interview with the Financial Times, Edward DeMarco, acting Federal Housing Finance Agency director, said policy makers who are pushing his agency to allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce borrowers' mortgage balances, are deliberately ... See all stories on this topic »

Guarded praise for Obama's World Bank nominee Financial Times For the first time two developing country candidates – Nigerian financeminister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Colombia's former finance minister, José Antonio Ocampo – will also contest the position. “The very fact that yet another American citizen will ... See all stories on this topic »

How to ensure stimulus today, austerity tomorrow Financial Times What can be said is that for the first time in five years a resumption of growth significantly above the economy's potential now appears a substantial possibility. Put differently, after years when growth was more likely to surprise below expectations ... See all stories on this topic »

Hedge funds face higher trading costs Financial Times These are being brought in between now and 2018, with the first batch of rules to be enforced by the end of this year. The Financial Times has spoken to top brokers including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, ... See all stories on this topic »

Cole says financial watchdogs need more bite Financial Times Ms Cole spoke to the Financial Times just as a decision may be reached in the most high-profile insider-trading investigation her team is pursuing. Police have scheduled interviews on Monday with four of the nine individuals arrested as part of a probe ... See all stories on this topic »

Luxembourg faces EU rap on investment rules Financial Times The draft Ucits V directive, seen by the Financial Times, attempts to improve rules on the responsibilities of custodians and remove inconsistencies in the way they are applied in different member states. This specifically addresses the issue of ... See all stories on this topic »

Opel to discuss plan for recovery Financial Times ... GM's need to reduce its excess production capacity in Europe, but Opel has not yet finalised plans for specific vehicles or potential future closures of one or more plants, two people familiar with the US carmaker's plans told the Financial Times. See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Full UBS armoury at disposal of Orcel Financial Times Both Santander and UniCredit, two clients with which Mr Orcel has close longstanding relationships, are preparing to shift business from Merrill to UBS, the Financial Times has learnt. Mr Orcel is seen as one of the best-connected advisory bankers in ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Merkel set to allow firewall to rise Financial Times Olli Rehn, EU commissioner for monetary affairs, expected eurozone finance ministers to reach a decision at a meeting in Copenhagen this Friday. “The key thing now is to conclude the comprehensive crisis response,” Mr Rehn said after two days of... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

India coal sale scandal hits output Financial Times The report, a copy of which has been seen by the Financial Times, shows that 60 of 86 allocated coal concessions had failed to begin production as planned by March 2011, resulting in coal output falling more than 50 per cent below target. See all stories on this topic »

Irish support for EU fiscal treaty rises Financial Times Lucinda Creighton, Ireland's European affairs minister, told the Financial Times there was no room for complacency as the referendum campaign had not started yet. “I am confident of a yes vote but I am not going to get carried away with one or two ... See all stories on this topic »

Investors in Brazil feel tied on land issue Financial Times “You are effectively selling a territory within a country to another country,” Homero Pereira, the congressman in charge of formulating the new law, told the Financial Times. The measures under consideration would most likely include banning foreign ... See all stories on this topic »

Egypt's Islamist groups consolidate power Financial Times Mostapha Kamel al-Sayed, who was elected to the panel told the Financial Times he was awaiting the decision of this party, the Popular Democratic Alliance, a leftwing group. “From the start this has been a worrying process,” he said. See all stories on this topic »

Cyprus signals exit for respected bank chief Financial Times “Without Germany in the eurozone, the euro would quickly depreciate to a level that would help reinstate the competitiveness of the periphery,” he wrote in a letter to the Financial Times in May 2011. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and ... See all stories on this topic »

Let the gas flow Financial Times Yet that is what is happening now over plans to export liquefied natural gas from the US. When the FT reported last week that ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP were working towards a preliminary agreement on a $40bn-plus project to export LNG from ... See all stories on this topic »

Aggreko set to acquire Brazilian rival Financial Times The deal for São Paulo-based Poit Energia is worth just over nine times the Brazilian group's operating profits last year. It should raise Aggreko's sales in South America by almost a third, to £193m, or about 14 per cent of the FTSE 100 company's ... See all stories on this topic »

Trump's troubled tower: anatomy of financial meltdown Orlando Sentinel Now, with the hulking, empty tower casting a shadow over one of Florida's most popular beachfronts, investors are demanding details of the massive project's collapse and debts of $185 million. In a heated court battle, investors want the financial ... See all stories on this topic »

Europe's bailout bazooka is proving to be a toy gun Financial Times First, it would need to merge the €440bn European Financial Stability Facility, the temporary umbrella, and its permanent successor, the European Stability Mechanism. Second, it will have to make the EFSF's share permanent because the EFSF is due to ... See all stories on this topic »

Ghana faces Ivory Coast stiff competition in hosting ICCO headquarters – Report Ghana Business News A report by the UK Financial Times (FT) March 22, 2012 said negotiations about moving the ICCO headquarters out of London to Abidjan have been on the cards for about a decade but the issue has been held up due to years of civil war and security issues ... See all stories on this topic » Ghana Business News

Rongsheng shrugs off Valemax fears Financial Times “The Berge Everest, which is a Valemax, managed to dock in Dalian without any problem last year and that is the reality,” said Sean Wang, chieffinancial officer at the privately owned shipbuilder. “Existing Chinese ports facilities are perfectly ... See all stories on this topic »

Patten 'favours Financial Times Editor to become new BBC chief' Daily Mail Lord Patten, who is in charge of the recruitment process, is said to favour Financial Times editor Lionel Barber as the successor to Mark Thompson, who will stand down from his £671000 job in the autumn after the Olympics. The director general role ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Birds Eye Iglo put up for sale by Permira Financial Times A multiple of 8-9 times implies an enterprise value of €2.5bn- €2.9bn. Iglo had net debt of €1.6bn at the end of 2010. Please don't cut articles fromFT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. See all stories on this topic »

Joy turns to worry over Indian tax break Financial Times By Ben Leahy When Pranab Mukherjee, India's financeminister, earlier this month proposed to introduce a new tax advantaged saving scheme for equity investors, fund houses rubbed their hands in anticipation. The Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

UK pensions crying out for inflation-linked gilts Financial Times He points out that without inflation protection, a bond issued a century ago at £100 par would be worth £1 today. He adds that the Bank of England has failed in recent times to suppress inflation below 2 per cent – latest data reveal CPI at 3.4 per ... See all stories on this topic »

Smith joins council at critical moment Annapolis Capital AP VIDEO more>> As a Marine reservist, he works as a resource manager for the military at Fort George G. Meade, overseeing a $25 million budget. Smith plans to lean on his experience solving financial problems and serving in hostile environments when ... See all stories on this topic » Annapolis Capital

Financial struggles common among military families Santa Maria Times AP | Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:25 pm | (0) Comments Military families aren't surprised when they hear about the financial struggles that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, his wife and children faced at home. It's part of their lives, too. See all stories on this topic »

Lee Memorial board may consider changing public hospital to private, or tax ... Naples Daily News FORT MYERS — The sting to the Lee Memorial Health System could last a long time. How can a public hospital, tasked with treating the sickest of the sick, stay on course if the benefit of immunity from large medical malpractice judgments is stripped ... See all stories on this topic »

Downtown Line may open in late 2013 AsiaOne Telok Ayer and Downtown stations will be nestled among old and new financial districts. Chinatown Station will boast an underground shopping mall in a 200m linkway with potentially more than 30000 sq ft of retail space. The Sunday Timesreported that ... See all stories on this topic » AsiaOne

Occupational fraud on the rise in DFW, nationwide, experts say Fort Worth Star Telegram Several attributed the rise to increased financial pressure felt by the perpetrators. Association President James Ratley said that while a few people take a job intending to steal, many more were loyal employees who believed that their company owed ... See all stories on this topic » Fort Worth Star Telegram

Robert Bales: Calling us to look closely at the strain of our National Defense Washington Times Maybe he received the news that Nidal Hasan, the Muslim Army psychiatrist who in November 2009 shouted Allah Akbar before killing thirteen and wounding 29 at Fort Hood in the worst shooting to ever take place on an American military base, ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Colorado State players 'disappointed' but not 'angry' at Miles ReporterHerald.com (Dave Weaver) FORT COLLINS -- Several times down the stretch this season, Tim Miles repeatedly attributed Colorado State's veteran experience as to why it was able to play well while under the constant pressure of being on the NCAA Tournament bubble. See all stories on this topic »

1st section of Downtown Line likely to open in late 2013 Straits Times QUIET FOR NOW : Escalators installed at Bugis station, the last of six stations on the first Downtown Line section to begin construction in 2008. To avoid diverting roads and utilities there, engineers adopted mining in Beach Road, Queen Street and ... See all stories on this topic » Straits Times

Army: PTSD treatable; some diagnosed return to war Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier 23, 2011, file photo provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Sgt. Robert Bales takes part in exercises at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. It is still not known if Bales, who allegedly massacred 17 Afghans, ... See all stories on this topic »

Liability settled, but Jax-Miami Amtrak service still faces hurdles Daytona Beach News-Journal Energized by a crucial bill on liability adopted by the state Legislature two weeks ago, many of those pushing for passenger trains to make the 350-mile journeys every day say it's just a matter of time now. "I am very confident it will happen," said ... See all stories on this topic »

Middlewich eastern bypass special report Middlewich Guardian This is because the project will facilitate the final phase of the town's Midpoint 18 business park unlocking 1.5million sq ft of employment land. Around 1.5km of the route has already been built and after Pochin Developments secured £4.1million from ... See all stories on this topic »

Global Power Shift: West to East The Epoch Times By Alistair Burnett Created: March 25, 2012 Last Updated: March 25, 2012 Army soldiers walk off the plane as they arrive at their home base of Fort Hood, Texas, as the US military formally ended its mission in Iraq after eight years of war, on Dec. See all stories on this topic » The Epoch Times

Fuel Fix » Full UBS armoury at disposal of Orcel By FT.com - Energy Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:51 pm by FT.com - Energy in ... Read more from Financial Times ... You can read more energy news from the Financial Times at www.ft.com/companies/energy. Follow: ... Share your news, tips and memos ... Fuel Fix

FT Launches Facebook News App - About us - Financial Times Today the Financial Times is launching a Facebook News App , which offers users ... The FT News App displays top news stories, infographics, blogs and video ... aboutus.ft.com/2012/03/21/ft-launches-facebook-news-app/

Central banks must address rising oil prices - FT.com - Financial Times In 2008-9, chaos in global financial markets led to a large recession across the world ... All times are London time. Financial Times. News; Quotes;News; Quotes .... But demand is being driven up by the activities of the 6.8bn people now living ... www.ft.com/.../4aee4dfa-6c4d-11e1-8c9d-00144feab49a.html

Bleak outlook for US newspapers - FT.com - Financial Times The headlines about the US newspaper industry have never been so bleak.... and are now at 1984's level; and the Pew Research Center has found that for ... www.ft.com/.../3eef0bc4-6f73-11e1-9c57-00144feab49a.html

Financial Times staff to stop work today | Media | guardian.co.uk "The union is fully behind our members at the FT taking action on pay and ..."The Financial Times has continued to invest in its editorial operations and... at a time when news organisations around the world are facing exceptional challenges. www.guardian.co.uk/.../financialtimes-nationalunionofjournali...

Investment bankers remain masters - for now - FT ... - Financial Times Europe's airline brew must find a way to lose some froth · News industry can survive ... It is little wonder these are the people who are now coming through as the ... www.ft.com/.../0e80a8c6-6c6c-11e1-b00f-00144feab49a.html

Financial Times launches FTChinese.com MBA Gym iPad ... ... The Financial Times today announced the launch of an MBA Gym app for FT ... The Financial Times, one of the world's leading business newsorganisations, ... aboutus.ft.com/.../financial-times-launches-ftchinese-com-mba...

Spain wins more time for deficit cuts - FT.com - Financial Times Spain's partial victory in budget negotiations with the European Union has won it more time for the first stage of deficit cuts, but will not ... and some doubt Spain's ability to achieve the targets it has now agreed with the EU ...Person in the news ... www.ft.com/.../8d188386-6d05-11e1-ab1a-00144feab49a.ht...

Sky pulled news story on F1 shares - FT.com - Financial Times The chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting ordered a news story to be... originally reported by Sky News, and said he did not know what F1 wasnow worth. www.ft.com/.../068a0618-71f2-11e1-8497-00144feab49a.ht...

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