UK Morning Headlines: Activision CEO leads $8.2bn investor buyout, Senate ...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday July 26 2013     UK Homepage   Activision CEO leads $8.2bn investor buyout   Bobby Kotick is leading an investor group buying most of Vivendi's controlling stake in the world's largest video games company.       Senate letter backs Yellen for Fed role     Samsung sees slower smartphone growth ahead     Decade-long quest ends at SAC front door     Amazon reports unexpected quarterly loss         Markets   Equities mixed as China concerns linger   Global stocks struggled for a clear direction amid persistent worries about China, as investors digested a heavy schedule of corporate earnings       Lower fertility rates threaten tax base     Bonds to benefit from ageing population     Gold hedges reward Australian miners     Coffee roasters get a taste for arabica   World News   Probe into Spanish train crash begins   Prime minister Mariano Rajoy declares three days of national mourning after visiting the scene of the country's worst railway accident in 40 years       Call for Egypt protests sparks concern     Tunisian opposition leader shot dead     Details of Detroit's woes come to light     Spain's jobless data boost recovery hopes   UK News   Money lenders invited back into temple   Archbishop of Canterbury lifts the lid on Church of England's intention to compete directly with Wonga and the payday lender sector       GSK replaces head of China operations     Treasury criticised over Equitable payments     UK 'on the mend' but with 'long way to go'     BT signs up more than 500,000 to TV sports   UK Companies   CSR outstrips forecasts   The Cambridge company, which develops semiconductors for bluetooth and GPS devices, saw a 13 per cent rise in sales of its core products       Acquisitions help Bodycote     Travis Perkins upbeat on building outlook     US presses banks for billions in MBS payments     Welby is a man with a point         Please send us your feedback about this email   follow us on:                     Tools: Your account | Portfolio | Email Briefings | Price alerts | Keyword alerts | RSS feeds | Subscribe to FT.com   Email: Change Briefings | Unsubscribe | Change Email Address | Forward this email to a friend | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.