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If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/EB8122/SU4I6L/38IUGS/8ANBW9/   Europe morning headlines Wednesday May 22 2013 How useful are FT email briefings to you and what can we do to improve them? Take our short survey Financial Times - Europe homepage   Apple chief defends tax practices Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, defended the technology group's tax practices and denied it was engaged in massive tax avoidance schemes http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/CWT036/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   BoJ holds off on fresh monetary easing Japan's central bank decides against fresh monetary easing, judging the measures already taken to stimulate growth enough to revive an economy showing signs of 'picking up' http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/LSV48U/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Dimon victory despite investor backlash Investors targeted their disapproval at the bank's independent directors in an unusually large vote against the re-election of Ellen Futter, David Cote and James Crown http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/YGIFWZ/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Fiat Industrial to move tax home to UK Blow to Italy underlines the attractiveness of the UK's increasingly light corporate tax regime http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/XBYR4T/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   SAP seeks programmers with autism German software group wants to tap into a new talent pool by hiring hundreds of people with the condition to programme and test its ­products http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/MJ2W6F/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Markets   Asian shares rally ahead of Bernanke testimony Japan stocks lead rally, with investors waiting for Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before Congress later in the day http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/SU4EAI/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Cheap debt fuels executive share buybacks More than half of all buybacks by US non-financial companies in the first quarter were used to repurchase stock options, according to Société Générale http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/EKBVU2/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   US stocks close at fresh high Five of 10 main industry groups on the benchmark rise, with companies that sell non-essential items to consumers leading the gainers http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/GY8ALT/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   ARM lags as FTSE hits highest since 1999 A bullish message from Arm management at an investor day fails to keep the stock at a record high while gold miners' rebound helps London index rise 0.7% http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/9MU8R0/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   World News - latest world news headlines - FT.com   Rafsanjani banned from presidential poll Guardian Council bans Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, an ally of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, from participating http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/52FTQM/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Shane Todd's family walk out of inquest An inquiry into the death of an American engineer in Singapore took an unexpected turn after his family walked out of a coroner's inquest http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/Q3MYV0/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Rescuers search for Oklahoma survivors Forecasters warn that another tornado could be coming as rescue teams continue the search for missing people in Moore, Oklahoma http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/ULX97L/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Japanese trade deficit widens The total value of exports in April rose 3.8 per cent from a year earlier to Y5.78tn, while imports were up by 9.4 per cent to Y6.66tn http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/K9C5GA/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Israel warns Assad over action in Golan IDF chief of staff makes one of the most explicit warnings yet to the Syrian leader by an Israeli public official after a chain of incidents http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/VTKSMX/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Europe News - latest Europe news headlines - FT.com   Former Georgia PM charged with corruption Move may rekindle international concerns over alleged selective prosecutions under the country's billionaire premier Bidzina Ivanishvili http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/9MU8R9/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Brouhaha français sur l'éducation en anglais Unions call protests to coincide with a parliamentary debate on the change, part of a law on university reform to attract more overseas students http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/3CJ1IV/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Europe plans to widen bonus cap The European banking regulator said it had broadened the definition of staff affected by the incoming cap, which comes into effect next year http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/ULX97D/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Fugitive Kazakh banker's homes for sale Assets to be liquidated after Mukhtar Ablyazov, former chairman of BTA Bank, fled Britain last year amid a $6bn High Court embezzlement case http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/1O9PD9/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Brussels plays down import duty fears European Commission challenges study which estimated widespread job losses as a result of anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/VTKSMG/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   European companies   Saab bosses held for alleged tax offences Jan-Åke Jonsson, chief executive, Karl-Gustav Lindström, finance director, and general counsel Kristina Geers accused of obstructing tax checks http://link.ft.com/r/EB8122/T1AMXG/GKB29U/16H0PQ/JQ0MBB/YT/h?a1=2013&a2=5&a3=22   Tools Your account    Portfolio Email Briefings    Price alerts Keyword alerts    RSS feeds Subscribe to FT.com     © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 ABOUT THIS EMAIL You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. 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