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To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday October 03 2013     UK Homepage   Mounting Wall Street fears of US default   A highly anticipated meeting Wednesday evening between President Barack Obama, John Boehner, and other leaders ended without any sign of progress       Cerberus examining bid for BlackBerry     Microsoft investors fear Gates' influence         Video   Problems on every aisle for Tesco   Tesco profits fell by a third, hit by a collapse in European earnings and weakness in Asia. Lex's Vincent Boland and Oliver Ralph look at Tesco's problems and the difficulties it faces turning this around.   US homepage   BP wins spill compensation appeal   An appeals court approved a partial freeze on contested payments for business losses, which increase its chances of limiting the cost of the settlement       SEC throws spoke into derivatives shake-up     US grabs $3m worth of Bitcoins in raid   Europe homepage   Berlusconi stuns all by backing Letta   Italy's former prime minister chose to support the vote of confidence in prime minister Enrico Letta rather than see his party split       Twitter's got the whole world in its hands     Draghi pledges to keep interest rates low   Asia homepage   Leighton drops 9% on allegations of corruption   Shares in Australian-based Leighton dropped 9 per cent on fresh reports of corruption       Marc Jacobs to quit Louis Vuitton for own line     Techs eye Japan's 'keiretsu' as VC model   World News   Broadband trials seek to use white space   Ofcom has identified the technology as an important means of meeting critical capacity shortages for mobile communications in future       EU Commission chief aims to cut red tape     Thriller writer Tom Clancy dies     Party conferences signal gear shift     Hinkley reactor deal nears completion   Companies News   Sealing well too soon 'too risky', says BP   BP's opponents at civil trial in New Orleans over Deepwater Horizon disaster have argued it delayed solutions that could have capped well more quickly       Third Point urges Sotheby's chief to quit     NY sues Wells Fargo over mortgage settlement     Empire State Realty in lukewarm NYSE debut     Goldman Sachs buys into Dong Energy   Markets   Stocks fall as US fiscal worries grow   Global equities and the dollar came under pressure from fresh concerns about the US fiscal crisis, although the S&P 500 pared an early decline       Central banks joined EM asset sell-off     Bears line up on sterling after highs     EU rescue fund bonds predicted to fly     Dividend stocks are losing their allure   Comment   Social networks cannot oppress us   Those alarmed by the power of Facebook and Twitter ignore that there is a flaw in any business that relies on pushing users into addictive but unsettling activity       Britain's credit status is not a given     Myanmar transition is on the road – just     Russia defends its own interests in Syria     We cannot let good spectrum go to waste   Management   Work, rest and resilience   Employers are investigating techniques borrowed from psychology to help businesspeople bounce back from failures and perform under stress       A mother's lessons for the PR industry     'The Social Media MBA in Practice         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.