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To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday August 16 2013     UK Homepage   Sell-off as markets expect early Fed move   Positive employment and inflation data have added to expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon reduce its asset purchases       Farmers count cost of S Korea's power crisis     Dell earnings tumble 72% amid deal tussle         Video   Imperial Tobacco raises prices   Amid greater regulation and falling sales, Imperial Tobacco is managing to offset some of the fall in demand by raising prices. Lex's Oliver Ralph and Julia Grindell discuss the recent performance of the makers of Davidoff and JPS cigarettes and the impact of electronic cigarettes on the market.   US 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       Herbalife kept links to pyramid scheme     West struggles to find Egyptian response   Europe homepage   Demand surges for copper in China   The cost of Chinese physical copper over benchmark futures prices has more than tripled since the start of the year to more than $200 a tonne       Lapid denounces anti-Israel sentiment     Dutch gloom as housing bubble deflates   Asia homepage   Facebook trials mobile payment feature   Tracking purchases originating from a Facebook ad via stored credit card information could significantly bolster its attraction to ecommerce advertisers       Flood of bad loans to test China's system     Global executives keen for Merkel victory   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     Sex slave past hits Tokyo-Seoul relations     Russia accused of trade war with Ukraine   Companies News   China moves towards bad loans remedy   Move is one sign that the Chinese government will not entirely bail out the next round of problem loans emerging from China's credit boom       Apollo co-founder buys into New Jersey Devils     Walmart slashes global sales forecast     UK 'zombie bank' pitches for future role     L'Oréal pursues China face mask company   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       Paulson still likes gold despite ETF sale     High India land prices bar cheap hotels     US farmland prices keep on rising     'Hindenburg Omen' portends fiery crash   Comment   How the wealthy keep themselves on top   The more unequal a society becomes, the greater the incentive for the rich to pull up the ladder behind them and opportunities for the poor worsen       Obama fails to correct Egyptian mistake     Whale catch might not make banks safer     Britain should beware of Swampy     Civic America at its least civil   Management   Bad dogs and an Englishman   Roger Mugford is the founding father of British pet psychology who was called in when the Queen's corgis savaged Princess Beatrice's terrier       A new generation of wireless headsets     Biopic puts Steve Jobs back in the spotlight         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.