In today's FT: Double blow for BAE fighter sales, BoJ pledges to ma...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday December 20 2013     UK Homepage   Double blow for BAE fighter sales   News is embarrassment for David Cameron who put UK's trade policy at the heart of his efforts to stimulate the economy and made two separate trips to try to UAE       BoJ pledges to maintain easing policy     BoE more cautious on economic predictions         Video   AstraZeneca bets on diabetes   British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca buys out venture partner Bristol-Myers Squibb from diabetes drug alliance, ticking two growth priorities – diabetes and growth in emerging markets. Lex's Joseph Cotterill and Vincent Boland discuss the developments.   US homepage   Fed taper pressures emerging markets   The taper of asset buying by the Federal Reserve heralds a new era of dollar strength as the US currency rises against a basket of others       Big investors suspend ties with ConvergEx     Telstra to sell HK mobiles unit for A$2bn   Europe homepage   Gold drops below $1,200 on taper news   Expectations of an end to the US monetary stimulus programme has knocked more than 25 per cent off the gold price this year, its biggest drop in 30 years       Banking union falls short of EU goal     Putin vows to pardon Khodorkovsky   Asia homepage   China surpasses UK in US deal scrutiny   Report from foreign investment review body shows increase in number of transactions during 2012       Obama threat to veto Iran sanctions move     Zuckerberg to sell 41m Facebook shares   World News   ICC prosecutor seeks to adjourn Kenyatta trial   Request to delay Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta's trial over his indictment for crimes against humanity deals a blow to the International Criminal Court       Spy review seeks to reassure US allies     Delhi demands US drops diplomat charges     Turkish imam wields power from US exile     EU launches trade dispute against Brazil   Companies News   US regulators seek to ease Volcker fears   Up to 300 banks could be affected because of holdings in complex securities, which they believe they are required to divest and record a loss       Target breach hits 40m accounts     Gripes over JPMorgan's commodities sale     US mortgage servicer in $2.1bn settlement     Saab shares soar on Brazil defence deal   Markets   Asia bourses mostly lower in Fed's wake   Chinese shares unsettled by volatility in interbank rates while Japanese equities under pressure ahead of Bank of Japan monetary policy update       EM currencies under renewed pressure     Political risk increases for EM investors     Fed deftly swaps tools to investor applause     Rush of HK IPOs bodes well for next year   Comment   A good year for Putin but bad for Russia   The president's pardoning of the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the act of someone who likes to pretend his nation is still the equal of the US       The real lessons of the crisis     North and south must reform together     The long farewell to quantitative easing     Taper in a teapot: The Fed's tweak of QE   Management   Memoirs written by a hired pen   Ghostwriting books for celebrities and other notable figures can pay as much as $300,000 a year to those who can tolerate the obscurity       The hard graft of finding a City career     Lost items reunited with their owners         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.