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Thursday, 4 November 2010

Financial Times - UK Homepage by Biodun Iginla, BBC News
Topic: FT briefing, bbc news, biodun ig

US Fed to pump in extra $600bn

The Federal Reserve launched a last-ditch effort to shore up the US economic recovery with a new $600bn round of quantitative easing
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/ZB582S/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

QE2 blunderbuss likely to backfire

Easing is unlikely to sustain high growth and job creation in the US, but will certainly complicate life for other countries, writes Mohamed El-Erian
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/M9BJ1Q/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Asia stocks and currencies rise on Fed action

The Federal Reserve, in its most important decision in decades, said it would buy $600bn in longer-term Treasury bonds by the end of the second quarter next year
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/A7S5IW/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Obama acknowledges voter frustration

US president challenged Republicans to work with him to boost the economy and create jobs, in the wake of the largest Congressional defeat in more than half a century
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/BMJ4I8/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Canada rejects BHP bid for Potash

Canada has rejected BHP Billiton’s $39bn bid for PotashCorp, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the Australian miner’s 10-week pursuit of the Saskatchewan-based fertiliser producer.
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/6VIAWO/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Financial Times - Financial markets news

Rise in long-term yields in bond market

Long-term US Treasury bond yields rose sharply after the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it will primarily buy debt with a maturity of less than 10 years under its second round of quantitative easing
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/KET935/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

US stocks rise in choppy trading

The financial sector helped US stocks edge higher in choppy trading after the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it would embark on a second round of quantitative easing
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/TPV161/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Dollar retreats after Fed’s QE decision

The dollar loses ground after the Federal Reserve extends its quantitative easing programme following its policy meeting
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/9Z9MDO/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Orange juice soars as Brazil crop falls short

Orange juice prices rise to their highest level in three years after a Brazilian government agency says the fruit crop will fall
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/JILQ3R/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Suspicions rise after LSE platform goes down

A two-hour outage that knocked out an important trading platform had been caused by human error, possibly ‘suspicious circumstances’
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/M9BJ1P/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Financial Times - World

IEA fears oil spike if climate pledges fail

The global energy watchdog will back calls for governments to implement pledges to fight climate change and cut fossil fuel subsidies, warning that a failure to do so would significantly inflate oil prices
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/XT7BVT/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

US regulators warned on new bank legislation

Spencer Bachus, a potential Republican chairman of the House financial services committee, has fired the first salvo in a battle with regulators – warning them against harming US banks by curbing their trading activity
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/WLZHC0/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Papandreou raises stakes in local elections

As a bomb scare adds to the strain, the prime minister says he will call a snap general election in December if his Panhellenic Socialist Movement fails to win 13 key regional governors’ posts
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/5CY24O/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Sarkozy to meet Hu as France takes G20 lead

France and China will discuss potential reform of the international monetary system when President Hu Jintao arrives in Paris for a state visit, which comes on the eve of France’s presidency of the G20 group of leading nations
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/A7S5YL/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Rousseff picks her transition lieutenants

The 50-strong team, expected to be completed by next week, will primarily have a management role in the handover of, and its senior members will also be influential in naming Ms Rousseff’s ministers
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/PR6NTW/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Financial Times - World UK

Santander UK head defects to run Lloyds

António Horta-Osório, the head of Santander’s UK business, is to take over from Eric Daniels as chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/ZB5821/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

May warns against overstating al-Qaeda threat

Theresa May has warned against overstating the strength of al-Qaeda in her first speech on terrorism since she became the British home secretary
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/D4FX9K/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Christmas strike threat recedes as court backs BA

British Airways has won an important court ruling backing its controversial changes to cabin crew contracts which led to a long-running series of strikes
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/40DV51/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

FT.com - Companies UK

Heiress apparent adds to her reputation

Ana Patricia Botín, daughter of Emilio Botín, Santander's veteran executive chairman, is regarded as the heiress apparent who will run the eurozone's biggest banking group by market capitalisation when her father finally retires
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/FX3DS6/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Sympathy is cruellest blow for Lloyds' Daniels

Eric Daniels has absorbed some heavy blows since 2008 when Lloyds bought HBOS. But now something worse is happening: people are starting to feel just a little bit sorry for him
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/JILQ3J/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Crown Estate to sell Regent Street stake

The UK body has set up a £1.8bn property partnership structure, in which Norges Bank Investment Management will purchase a 25% stake on behalf of the Norwegian government pension fund
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/TPV18J/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Standard Life sales up but inflows slow

Group had good sales growth in the third quarter but some analysts were disappopinted with the slowdown in net inflows of funds into its business compared with the first half
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/8AQ7K8/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

Ticket revenues boost FirstGroup profits

The rail and bus operator says ticket revenues at its UK rail and US Greyhound bus divisions increased in spite of the reduction in regulated fares
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/9Z3CQO/OQOVI/18QOQP/GKPYRD/1G/h?a1=2010&a2=11&a3=4

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