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To view this email as a webpage, click here     Tuesday November 05 2013     UK Homepage   SAC to pay biggest insider fine of $1.8bn   The hedge fund agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud and close to outside investors       BlackBerry abandons sale     Senior Obama adviser to quit US Treasury         Video   Demand dip drives Ryanair to be nice   Ryanair has warned on profits for the second time in two months. Lex's Oliver Ralph and Nikki Tait discuss why as economies are recovering airlines are suffering a dip in demand.   US homepage   Twitter sharply increases IPO valuation   Messaging platform to raise up to $2bn in New York listing, the biggest technology IPO since Facebook       Believe nothing of 'Everything Store', says Bezos wife     Asia markets slip on China slowdown fears   Europe homepage   Swiss finance minister calls for tighter leverage rules   Schlumpf says ratios she envisages would force big Swiss banks to consider whether they can afford to keep investment banking arms       Pimco loses fund crown to Vanguard     J&J hit by fines of more than $2.2bn   Asia homepage   Food prices face sting from decline in humble bee   Rise in pollination costs comes as almond prices are hitting eight-year highs, with global demand for the nut supported by healthier living habits       US air merger prospects brighten     Morsi defiant as trial adjourned   World News   Scientists predict 20bn Earth-like worlds   First comprehensive survey of habitable planets beyond our solar system suggests the possibility of intelligent life existing elsewhere in our galaxy       Republicans worried over female voter gap     Italy's finance minister warns on euro     Swiss probe Congo gold bought by refiner     Data protection ruled out of trade talks   Companies News   BlackBerry move seen as temporary fix   A consortium of financial investors led by Fairfax, BlackBerry's largest shareholder, will invest an additional $1bn in the company       SAC Capital prepares for a second life     Alcatel launches €955m capital increase     Co-op restructures banking arm     US insurance shake-up brings data to sell   Markets   Sunshine-backed bond to go on sale   Bankers have been struggling to put together a solar securitisation deal for many months but hit structural snags that had to be worked out       Goldman research rebuts warehouse critics     'Bail-in' jitters for bank bond investors     Debt crisis has left Germany vulnerable     High-speed trading 'aids efficiency', ECB says   Comment   China plans to prove the sceptics wrong   Changes are promised but is far from clear that a system that is superb at producing growth is also capable of providing clean air and water       Britain's politicians must dare to be dull     Osborne was wrong not to break up RBS     Moocs matter more in emerging markets     How not to fix the EU democratic deficit   Management   Singapore delivers a new post   A tie-up between SingPost and Adidas shows how postal carriers can offset the demise of the physical letter by making more from e-commerce       The siren call of Microsoft Excel     Gillette's 'Shave India Movement'     Sesame Street joins Michelle Obama         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.