Asia Morning Headlines: Buffett targets cars, oil and satellite TV, Sell-off...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday August 16 2013     Asia homepage   Buffett targets cars, oil and satellite TV   Rising market helps push value of Berkshire's stock portfolio to $97bn, accounting for more than a third of the conglomerate's $287bn market capitalisation       Sell-off as markets expect early Fed move     Dell earnings tumble 72% amid deal tussle     Facebook trials mobile payment feature     Paulson still likes gold despite ETF sale     West struggles to find Egyptian response     Flood of bad loans to test China's system     Global executives keen for Merkel victory     Demand surges for copper in China     L'Oréal pursues China face mask company         World News   Why Egypt's army can ignore the US   When the army and security forces ignored pleas for restraint from Egypt's allies in the US and Europe, they had reason to feel supremely confident       Foreign groups shut factories over fears of violence     Lapid denounces anti-Israel sentiment     Sex slave past hits Tokyo-Seoul relations     Norway's salmon exports to China plummet   Markets   Equities slide as bond yields hit highs   Further evidence of improvement in the US economy heightens expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon begin scaling back stimulus       High India land prices bar cheap hotels     US farmland prices keep on rising     'Hindenburg Omen' portends fiery crash     Risk on/risk off correlations fade fast   Asia & Pacific News   India curbs capital outflows to aid rupee   The government unveils fresh limits on capital outflows in efforts to further bolster the weakening rupee in what some analysts are seeing as a desperate move       Abe skips war shrine visit to ease tensions   Asia-Pacific Companies News   India's capital crisis   Reform, not controls, is the only way to revitalise the economy. The merits of forcing money to stay where it does not want to be are questionable at best       China moves towards bad loans remedy     Danone bows low to succeed in China     Swire Pacific: Hong Kong conglomerates     Equity listings revival lifts HKEx profit         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | 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.