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Date: 11st May 2011
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Financial Times
Asia AM
Wednesday May 11 2011

Financial Times - Asia homepage
 
Geithner hails ‘progress’ in China talks
The US and China have claimed success after two days of negotiations ended in a series of deals on US access to the Chinese market and Chinese access to sensitive US technology
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/WLFRZM/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Google sets aside $500m for US probe
Google has put aside $500m to settle a US investigation into its advertising practices, marking a sharp intensification of the spreading regulatory scrutiny of the company
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/WLFRZO/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Microsoft in $8.5bn Skype gamble
Microsoft is acquiring Skype, the internet telephone company, in what is one of the US software company’s largest deals to date as it seeks to revitalise its business
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/ZBP35D/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Japan prepares rescue plan for Tepco
The nuclear plant operator makes its first formal request for aid since the tsunami, with the government close to completing a draft plan to stop the utility from collapsing
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/V1RJA2/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Investor appetite for risk boosts Goldman
Goldman Sachs said its traders lost money on only one day in the last quarter, underlining how volatile markets and investors’ appetite for risk helped revive Wall Street’s biggest source of revenue
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/A70OSQ/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Talk of €60bn Greek bail-out calms nerves
Reports that Greece was in line to secure a new €60bn aid package – possibly reducing chances of default – supports euro, while strong trade data from China boosts optimism about global economy
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/ZBP356/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Indian villagers fear arrival of nuclear ‘monster’
In an Indian coastal region famed for its mangos and bountiful sea residents fear the construction of reactors would devastate their livelihoods
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/KEW4TG/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Floods set to force up price of petrol
US gasoline futures prices are rising faster than crude oil, threatening higher prices at the pump even as political authorities face public anger over energy costs
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/728GE4/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
AIG offering scaled back after share slide
The US Treasury and AIG aim to sell about $8.7bn in shares in the insurance group’s public offering this month after scaling back plans for a larger share sale
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/A70OSE/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Fifa set to probe fresh bribery claims
Sepp Blatter, Fifa’s president, is expected to launch an official investigation into bribery allegations made against six members of the football world governing body’s executive committee
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/EWA2N1/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 

Financial Times - US homepage
 
Disney profits hit by Japan quake
The devastating earthquake in Japan and one of Walt Disney’s biggest box-office flops combined to hit the media group’s second-quarter profits
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/FXZA33/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Apollo decides it’s now or never for Graceland offer
Leon Black’s private equity group agrees a $509m deal for entertainment rights group
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/EWA2NS/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Weak dollar boosts New York tourism
Foreign tourists are flocking to New York to take advantage of the weak dollar, helping to revive the city’s economy as Wall Street struggles to rebound
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/LQXWHF/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Investors count cost to banks of Greek default
Worried by the possibility that Greece could restructure its debt, investors are gauging the likely impact on European banks that hold its bonds – and financial markets are pricing in the once unthinkable
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/40HTDY/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 

Financial Times - UK Homepage
 
Pace of UK growth under threat
Britain’s economy is unlikely to grow as fast as before the financial crisis because its most productive sectors have been hardest hit, jeopardising government plans to cut the deficit
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/NSDKGN/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
Army scours Damascus suburbs
The regime of Bashar al Assad has sought to reassert its authority over a seven week-old popular protest movement, focusing its security crackdown on Damascus suburbs
http://link.ft.com/r/YIQXNN/72OC3Z/C5MQVG/8A8H8G/3OTLKM/JY/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=10
 
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