In today's FT: Google ‘outraged’ by latest NSA claims, Three plead ...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday October 31 2013     UK Homepage   Google 'outraged' by latest NSA claims   New report alleges National Security Agency sought information on millions of people by tapping into a weak point in Google's network architecture       Three plead guilty to phone hacking     Fed stays the course on bond buying         Video   Why Volkswagen is still cheap   Volkswagen shares are up 5 per cent after better than expected third-quarter numbers, but the German volume carmaker's shares remain cheap. Lex's Oliver Ralph and Nikki Tait explain why.   US homepage   Batista seeks OGX bankruptcy protection   Filing signals the demise of one of the greatest fortunes built during the emerging markets boom of the first decade of this century       Facebook admits to losing young teens     US Treasury attacks Germany over surplus   Europe homepage   Fiat profit scare puts focus on Chrysler   Continued gloom in European car market and recovery in North America underlines chief executive's desire to merge the two companies       Qatar fund quietly builds $1bn BofA stake     PwC plays for growth with Booz purchase   Asia homepage   India's gold rush: Part of the fabric   Can the government curb the insatiable appetite for gold that is pushing Asia's third-largest economy towards financial crisis? By Avantika Chilkoti and James Crabtree       Taiwan growth stalls as exports falter     China's Craigslist to test US IPO waters   World News   Sebelius vows health site fix by November   Sparks flew early in the highly anticipated hearing before the House of Representatives committee over the botched rollout of new insurance programme       Obamacare critics given new line of attack     Film revisits E Timor murder of FT writer     Greenland PM eyes independence     China set to supply US nuclear plant parts   Companies News   Intel eyes web TV disposal to Verizon   Deal to part ways with the unit would mark the closing of an uncomfortable chapter for chipmaker, which made much of introducing an online TV service       Starbucks hits out at growth expectations     US demand saves world's auto industry     BofA doubles legal cost estimates to $5bn     Adobe says 38m hit by cyber attack   Markets   Equities in retreat after Fed decision   US stocks, Treasury bonds and gold retreat after the Federal Reserve's keeps its QE programme intact and says decision to taper remains data dependent       CFTC backs contentious MF Global measure     US crude tumbles on sharp rise in stocks     Funds of hedge funds recast dismal model     High profits to keep equity bubble at bay   Comment   Carney is wise to nurture the City   He wants to ensure that no bank is too big to fail – but it will take a lot of negotiation to agree on any new resolution regime       End west's deference to petrodollars     Germany must embrace espionage     Russia and shale can power Europe     Obama: I hear what you say, Angela   Management   Portrait of a frontier investor   Gabriel Schulze is emblematic of a push into nascent markets where the reward for risk-taking is attracting increasing interest       Scary monsters, superstore creeps     Who touched base in my thought shower?         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.