In today's FT: Miliband urged to lance boil on EU, Moody’s consider...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday August 23 2013     UK Homepage   Miliband urged to lance boil on EU   Senior colleagues urge Labour leader to commit party to holding referendum on membership of the bloc if it wins next general election       Moody's considers US banks downgrade     Brazil to launch $60bn currency programme         Video   Great expectations of Chinese oil   China's oil companies boast a momentum that their international peers envy. Lex's Stuart Kirk and Vincent Boland consider the big questions surrounding these ambitious companies - do they have the finance and patience necessary to fulfil their goals?   US homepage   US markets crippled by Nasdaq outage   It is highly unusually for one of the US major exchanges and home to many of the country's largest companies to halt trading, let alone for such a period of time       China antitrust push draws US ire     Global growth optimism buoys Asia   Europe homepage   Lew warns Congress to strike debt deal   Congress faces a gruelling set of high-stakes fiscal negotiations when it returns from summer recess next month       Wild rollercoaster ride for currencies     Goldman should take glitch hit, says Scholes   Asia homepage   Sina set to launch chat offensive   The company that runs China's leading Twitter equivalent is determined to entice mobile internet users away from its rival's popular chat app       Bo lashes out at accusers in China trial     France hints at use of force in Syria   World News   Mubarak released from prison   Deposed former president is taken from prison in Cairo to a military hospital in a move that is set to further fuel political tensions in Egypt       Fresh radiation worries at Fukushima plant     Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe president     Eurozone PMIs show bloc gaining traction     Norway's PM on road to election defeat   Companies News   Nasdaq mishap puts SEC in spotlight   The industry has pushed back against a proposed rule to require big market players to regulate systems that are integral to their operations       Prosecutors seek $13.7m from ex-SAC manager     Steven Sinofsky returns to tech scene     17-minute glitch threatens Goldman's image     Kia output hurt by Saturday walkouts   Markets   Nasdaq outage prompts gripes but no panic   Exchange's response indicates lessons learnt from Facebook debacle, while traders coped by moving swiftly on to other platforms       Big US equity fall means Yellen for Fed     Europe junk volumes rise as banks retreat     Commodity bulls hope for new Chinese dawn     BNP Paribas in securitisation first   Comment   Central banking is about storytelling   The next Fed chair must be a storyteller and cultural analyst who can read social sentiment and make us think in a way that suits the bank's goals       Productivity is not everything     America must respond to Syrian atrocities     Brics party's over, so wind down the state     Al Jazeera: a good kind of un-American   Management   They plotted to escape the City   Former bankers and traders who turned their hand to writing novels have found that starting a new chapter is difficult but rewarding       The bearable lightness of being a laptop     A boutique mix of work and life         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.