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Monday November 18 2013
 
 
UK Homepage
 
Blacklist groups in £100,000 payouts
 
Eight major construction companies have set up a compensation fund for workers whose names appeared on a secret industry 'blacklist'
 
 
 
Top directors pay rises 14% in past year
 
 
Banks watchdog attacks unwieldy governance
 
 
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Cisco Systems and the spying scandal
 

Cisco Systems' shares tumbled after results this week that included a sales forecast downgrade, partly on nervousness over the US National Security Agency spying scandal. Lex's Oliver Ralph and Joseph Cotterill consider parallels between Cisco and Huawei.

 
US homepage
 
Gulf airlines unveil $140bn jet deals
 
Orders highlight how Gulf carriers have become some of the fastest-growing airlines in the world, putting pressure on western rivals
 
 
 
Israel ups rhetoric ahead of Iran talks
 
 
Fed considering a delay to Volcker rule
 
Europe homepage
 
Airliner crash in Russia kills 50
 
Boeing 737 airliner crashes while trying to land at the city of Kazan, killing all 44 passengers and six crew
 
 
 
Edmond de Rothschild in London opening
 
 
China reform blueprint boosts markets
 
Asia homepage
 
Legs fall off China's hairy crab industry
 
Banquets of hairy crabs, a delicacy, are usually a way to grease the wheels of commerce but a crackdown on graft has hit crab sellers hard
 
 
 
Bachelet set to reclaim power in Chile
 
 
Sony sells a million PS4 consoles on first day
 
World News
 
Pelosi tries to keep Democrats in line
 
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, is trying to stem a party revolt amid the botched implementation of healthcare reform
 
 
 
Berlusconi to lead party into oppostion
 
 
Militias persuaded to end violence in Tripoli
 
 
Labour rights review casts shadow on Qatar
 
 
Germany struggles to respond to NSA spying
 
Companies News
 
Barclays warns of more UK branch closures
 
Ashok Vaswani, head of the lender's retail and business banking, says 'there will be shrinkage' as swaths of customer transactions move online
 
 
 
Iglo targets budget-minded in growth plan
 
 
Greek bond issuance bounces back
 
 
King Coal enjoys unexpected renaissance
 
 
Twitter expands 'alerts' service to UK
 
Markets
 
Rush to board banks' flotation bandwagon
 
Investment bankers say pipeline of planned London IPOs for next year is exploding, with midsized banks the leading candidates for flotation
 
 
 
China hedge funds win seed capital
 
 
Graphene producer's IPO oversubscribed
 
 
CFTC to shake up US swaps trading market
 
 
Sharing knowhow crucial to Mexican growth
 
Comment
 
The Obama presidency is failing
 
Consider his second-term record to date: with the exception of the debt ceiling debacle, he has fallen at almost every hurdle
 
 
 
Europe needs to try unconventional policy
 
 
Economics degrees are out of touch
 
 
India needs more than a strongman
 
 
Warfare with guerrillas in grey suits
 
Management
 
South Africa's dose of big pharma
 
A string of sucessful deals have helped Stephen Saad, founder of Aspen Pharmacare, to extend his business into emerging markets globally
 
 
 
Ups and downs of taking the stairs
 
 
Inheriting someone else's mess
 
 
New business English
 
 
 
 
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