| * Miners dig in against Mexico tax plans * Brazil's football clubs net record sales * Czech billionaire is kingmaker in election * Forget China, switch to Mexico or Egypt * Brazilians braced for telecoms shake-up * Sadikin sees opportunity for Bank Mandiri * Myanmar courts foreign telecoms groups to tap mobile market * Markets: mixed Miners dig in against Mexico tax plans
Government plans to impose 7.5 per cent flat charge with additional levy on profits from precious metals have been met with anger from mining groups
http://on.ft.com/17mLXMa Brazil's football clubs net record sales
The revenues of the top 24 teams grew an average 32 per cent in 2012 to reach almost $1.4bn thanks to booming television broadcast income
http://on.ft.com/17mM0r2 Czech billionaire is kingmaker in election
The winner of snap elections was the man who came second – Andrej Babis and his Ano 2011 movement which emerged as the key party in building any governing coalition
http://on.ft.com/17mLXMb Forget China and switch to Zimbabwe, Mexico or Egypt
Where does growth come from? Why do some countries "emerge" and take on "developed" status, while others flounder before reaching that stage?
http://on.ft.com/18rt5VH Brazilians braced for telecoms shake-up
Brazilian telecom companies are criticised for low-quality services, and a cut in the number of operators would raise fears this would get worse
http://on.ft.com/17mM0Hz Sadikin sees opportunity for Bank Mandiri
Chief executive of state-controlled lender is confident that he can capture a greater proportion of market which has traditionally not had accounts
http://on.ft.com/17mM0r8 Myanmar courts foreign telecoms groups to tap mobile market
Vodafone and Orange are taking aim at entering one of the world's last untapped telecoms markets just months after missing out on licences in Myanmar.
http://on.ft.com/1aMDlcR Emerging Markets
MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.37% at 1,031 Americas
DJIA up +0.39% at 15,570
S&P 500 up +0.44% at 1,760
Bovespa down -1.32% at 54,154 Asia
Nikkei 225 up +1.83% at 14,347
Topix up +1.31% at 1,194
Hang Seng up +0.48% at 22,807
Shanghai Composite down -0.22% at 2,128
MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.56% at 553.82
CNX Nifty up +0.18% at 6,156 Currencies
€/$ 1.38 (1.38)
$/¥ 97.61 (97.41) Commodities
Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.26 at 107.19
Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.17 at 97.68
100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,352 | 
