| * Stocks steady as US shutdown arrives * Turkey's Erdogan unveils political reforms * No sign of growth for India's manufacturers * Asian smartphone makers eye developing markets * Newmont to bid for Glencore Peru project * Ageing population looms in eastern Europe * Unilever holds on to full-year targets * Aspen pays £700m for GSK's clotting drugs * China Mobile awards 4G contracts * Samsung's heir apparent faces tough test * Indian and Pakistan military leaders to meet * Markets: mixed Stocks steady as US shutdown arrives
Japanese markets lead Asian peers higher as manufacturers signal upbeat mood while mild reaction to US shutdown reflects beliefs it will be shortlived
http://on.ft.com/16TqpiY Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, has unveiled what he described as the most wide-ranging package of reforms in the country's history, including measures to permit the greater use of Kurdish languages, open up the electoral system and scrap bans on the use of the headscarf in public life.
http://on.ft.com/15EtOIr No sign of growth for India's manufacturers
Despite a weakening in the currency factory output in India remains in contraction territory
http://on.ft.com/16Tqpj6 Asian smartphone makers eye developing markets
Lower handset prices and margins prompt companies to cut costs and raise efficiency as they try to appeal to consumers at both ends of the spectrum
http://on.ft.com/15HkgqK Newmont to bid for Glencore Peru project
Las Bambas is to be auctioned by Glencore Xstrata and will possibly fetch up to $5bn, with Chinese mining groups among the favourites to win the asset
http://on.ft.com/15HkgqQ Ageing population looms in eastern Europe
Countries such as Russia face future where older people make up nearly a third of total population, but lawmakers are failing to prepare, index finds
http://on.ft.com/15HkgqR Unilever holds on to full-year targets
Sales growth of 3-3.5 per cent expected in three months to September 30 due to 'weakening in market growth of many emerging countries in quarter three'
http://on.ft.com/15HkgqT Aspen pays £700m for GSK's clotting drugs
Deal is second-largest this year by sub-Saharan Africa group buying assets outside the continent and allows GSK to focus on profitable new medicines
http://on.ft.com/15HkgqU China Mobile awards 4G contracts
More than half of the work to build the first phase of China Mobile's 4G network has been awarded to domestic equipment makers
http://on.ft.com/15HkgqV Samsung's heir apparent faces tough test
Lee Kun-hee is expected to hand chairmanship of electronics group to his only son, while shareholders wonder if division can maintain its meteoric growth
http://on.ft.com/15HkgHa Indian and Pakistan military leaders to meet
Senior military leaders in India and Pakistan are to meet in the latest effort to repair a much-violated ceasefire between the two countries
http://on.ft.com/1bVShe6 Emerging Markets
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