| * Indonesia objected to China passport move * Asia shares up as Cyprus worries ease * Emerging markets: Q1 blues * Russian oil cash fuels mobile bidding war * RWE sells Czech gas pipeline for €1.6bn * Russian oil cash fuels mobile bidding war * Sprint agrees to shun Huawei equipment * Hungary: renationalisation speeds up * China intensifies attacks on Apple * Nigeria asks investors to throw good money into its bad bank Markets: mostly up Indonesia objected to China passport move
Indonesia has for the first time revealed that it protested to China about the publication in its passports of its "nine-dash line" claim to almost the entire South China Sea.
http://on.ft.com/10mdYKQ Asia shares up as Cyprus worries ease
Friday 11.00 GMT. Asian shares were in positive territory on renewed risk appetite after the US S&P 500 hit a record closing high and worries about the Cyprus bailout eased.
http://on.ft.com/YNiuR7 Emerging markets: Q1 blues
Emerging stocks are heading for their biggest first-quarter drop since 2008, weighed down by slowing economic growth, worries about profits, concerns about the Chinese property market and the general unease about the euro crisis.
http://on.ft.com/170HTxo Russian oil cash fuels mobile bidding war
A bidding war between Russian groups for Sweden's Tele2 Russia mobile phone operator erupted on Thursday, a day after it said it had accepted a bid from Russian state bank VTB.
http://on.ft.com/10VsLyG Sprint agrees to shun Huawei equipment
Sprint Nextel, the US telephone carrier, and its Japanese suitor SoftBank have both agreed not to use equipment made by China's Huawei , the chairman of the House intelligence committee said on Thursday.
http://on.ft.com/ZrOSId RWE sells Czech gas pipeline for €1.6bn
RWE is selling its Czech gas pipeline network in a €1.6bn deal that highlights the appetite of insurers and pension funds to invest in stable infrastructure assets.
http://on.ft.com/YNiMrf Russian oil cash fuels mobile bidding war
A bidding war between Russian groups for Sweden's Tele2 Russia mobile phone operator erupted on Thursday, a day after it said it had accepted a bid from Russian state bank VTB.
http://on.ft.com/10VsLyG Hungary: renationalisation speeds up
Hungary's fast-expanding re-nationalisation programme, led by former anti-Communist activist Viktor Orban, on Thursday took a great leap forward.
http://on.ft.com/103w85b China intensifies attacks on Apple
The Chinese government has intensified a co-ordinated public campaign against Apple, slamming the technology group as "dishonest", "greedy" and "incomparably arrogant" and threatening regulatory action if the US company does not improve its after-sales service policies.
http://on.ft.com/14yAje0 Nigeria asks investors to throw good money into its bad bank
Two years on from the start of its cleanup operation for Nigeria's banking crisis, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) – the country's 'bad bank' – is courting foreign investors.
http://on.ft.com/16Yxgv7 Emerging Markets
MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.16% at 1,034 Europe
FTSE up +0.38% at 6,412
RTS up +0.12% at 1,457
Warsaw Wig down -0.22% at 45,148
FTSE 300 Eurotop up +0.41% at 1,189 Americas
DJIA up +0.36% at 14,579
S&P 500 up +0.41% at 1,569
Bovespa up +0.57% at 56,352 Asia
Nikkei 225 up +0.50% at 12,398
Topix down -0.20% at 1,035
Hang Seng down -0.74% at 22,300
Shanghai Composite up +0.01% at 2,237
MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.30% at 471.89
S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.73% at 5,683 Currencies
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Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.08 at 109.77
Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.65 at 97.23
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