Europe Morning Headlines: Hedge funds bet against Man United, EU watchdog aims...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday December 13 2013     Europe homepage   Hedge funds bet against Man United   Odey reveals short position worth £5m in football club, as investors bet the club's shares will perform as badly as the team currently is       EU watchdog aims to cool Bitcoin fever     Gold price probe extended to Deutsche Bank     Twitter U-turn over user blocking changes     Madoff victims to recover 74% of losses         Markets   Asia bourses mixed after US budget bill   Strong US retail sales data and news that the US House passed a budget bill increases likelihood of Fed reeling in stimulus programme       Hedge funds cut fees to win big investors     Forget the Fed, prepare for Tokyo 'taper'     Gold tumbles on Fed taper speculation     Facebook gains on move to S&P 500   World News   BoJ vows to stick with easy money policy   Kuroda confirms Japan's highly expansionary plan is to stay in place and says strategy 'almost half way' to bringing an end to 15 years of deflation       SPD eyes solidarity with troubled EU states     US agencies debate use of phones in flight     Assassination campaign blights Libya     Date set for Catalan independence vote   Europe News   Russia and EU both claim Kiev progress   EC officials interpret Ukraine's decision to send senior delegation to Brussels talks as concrete sign Yanukovich was serious about signing pact with EU       Putin threatens crackdown on offshoring     Irish pace of reform blamed on cronyism     Austria set for another grand coalition     Russia to sign economic deals with Kiev   European Companies News   Ukrainian business keen to go west   Kiev must choose between short-term gains of a pact with Russia and the long-term future for business and investment that EU alliance would bring       Centrica preferred bidder for Bord Gáis     Icelandic bank pair jailed for five years     EADS / Airbus: up in the AIR     EADS calls for EU drone budget         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.