In today's FT: Cameron in cigarette packaging U-turn, Alliance Boot...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday November 28 2013     UK Homepage   Cameron in cigarette packaging U-turn   Coalition to push ahead with study on removing branding after deciding enough evidence supports measure, which was thought to have been abandoned       Alliance Boots under pressure on tax bill     Biden to press China on airspace dispute         Video   Accor's surprising strategy   Shares in the France-based hotel group fell 7 per cent as it announced details of its new strategy. Lex's Joseph Cotterill and Oliver Ralph discuss why its chief executive believes there is value in both owning and operating hotels.   US homepage   Brazil raises benchmark rate to double digits   The central bank hiked the Selic rate late on Wednesday for the sixth time in a row, extending what has become the world's biggest tightening cycle       ECB warns of risks posed by Fed tapering     SAC's Steinberg wanted 'early' information   Europe homepage   Paris and Berlin follow UK migrant call   Dovetailing positions reflect growing anxiety in both countries and across the EU about rising public support for populist, anti-immigration parties       Deutsche Bank eyes UK wealth unit sale     Merkel secures German coalition deal   Asia homepage   Charter in financing talks for TWC bid   Charter, which has been circling larger cable-TV rival since the summer, is in discussions over $25bn debt package which could finance a bid       Farmers plight exposes Philippines dilemma     Speculators push Bitcoin above $1,000   World News   Berlusconi expelled from Senate   Italy's Senate votes to remove former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament as a result of his conviction for tax fraud       China triggers new African rail era     Low-profile general to lead Pakistan army     Dubai wins bid to host 2020 World Expo     Dublin pulls sale of state gas company   Companies News   JPMorgan eyed sale of metals unit in 2012   Correspondence between Fed and JPMorgan will raise doubts about banks' ability to keep commodities assets       Vale to pay $9.6bn to end tax dispute     Alliance Boots pressed on debt deals     Early start to leave US retailers seeing red     Judge clears American-US Airways merger   Markets   Wall Street closes at record highs   S&P 500 reaches a fresh closing peak and dollar hits six-month high against the yen after the release of broadly encouraging US data       Aluminium prices slide to four-year low     Greece gains from demotion to EM status     Rise in US oil stocks sends price lower     Return of bundled debt deals raises fears   Comment   Time banks kicked the easy money habit   Without the fixes provided by the European Central Bank, many bankers reckon that near normal funding would have resumed       China must tread carefully over islands     Politicians and their abuse of scientific language     Yanukovich is playing with the rules     Braveheart whose mum does the laundry   Management   On the trail of the Yakult Ladies   The Japanese probiotic drinks group is relying on its 80,000-strong sales force to drive its culture of growth into new markets       Vinyl-lovers should love newspapers     'The Solution Revolution'         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.