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FINANCIAL TIMES - Morning headlines
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Monday February 14 2011 

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Financial Times - US homepage
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Obama proposes cuts of $1,100bn
Barack Obama will propose slashing the country’s budget deficit by $1,100bn over the next decade, an administration official said, as the White House prepares to lay out its most restrained economic and fiscal policy agenda since the US president took office two years ago 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/D4BZGP/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

GE to pay $2.8bn for John Wood unit
General Electric, the largest US industrial group by market capitalisation, will pay $2.8bn for the well-support division of John Wood Group, the UK oil services company, continuing its drive to expand in the energy industry by acquisition 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/C5HAB9/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Egypt military opposes ElBaradei
Egypt’s new military rulers appear opposed to a role in the country’s transitional government for Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate seen by youth groups which led the revolt as a potential presidential candidate 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/S3WJXO/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Stocks resume rally as Egypt turmoil eases
Asian shares rebound from their biggest weekly fall since August as a resolution to the turmoil in Egypt helps calm investor nerves. 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/OJ7EMN/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

China trade surplus drops as imports rise
The trade surplus fell from $13.1bn in December to $6.5bn last month, the lowest in nine months, as a result of stronger-than-expected imports 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/3ORBFK/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

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Financial Times - Financial markets news
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Sterling gains ground ahead of inflation report
Sterling remained well supported at the beginning of a week heavy on UK data which could have a significant impact on the future direction of the pound 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/ZBQ19O/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Bid hopes lift FTSE 100 engineers
Siemens CFO raises the prospect of dealmaking in the sector, while miners fail to hold gains inspired by a smaller Chinese trade surplus as investors are quick to book profits 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/40FGN7/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Regional data help lift Asian equity markets
The continent’s shares rebound from their biggest weekly fall since August as a resolution to the turmoil in Egypt helps calm investor nerves 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/NSZI73/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Japan suffers GDP contraction
Japan’s economy contracted in the last quarter of last year amid slowing exports and weak domestic demand, according to preliminary data 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/GK65OS/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Why the FAO needs nuance
Javier Blas says there is a case for calmer and more considered reading of an FAO report warning of drought in north-west China 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/IY0WCU/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

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Financial Times - World
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Cabinet resigns in Palestinian reshuffle
Fayyad and Abbas to remain in their posts after the latest in a series of steps taken by the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank in response to wider political unrest in the Arab world 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/HDO40R/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Record number of Russian billionaires
Moscow’s oligarchs are bouncing back as an annual ranking of the country’s richest 500 published by Finans magazine boasts 114 dollar billionaires at the end of last year 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/TPXRK1/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Child abductions increase in China
For three years, Sun Haiyang and Peng Gaofeng have been something like brothers in arms. The two men, both migrants from central China, have been searching for their sons together – both having been abducted in the southern city of Shenzhen 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/KEVK2H/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

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FT.com - US
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Obama proposes cuts of $1,100bn
Barack Obama will propose slashing the country's budget deficit by $1,100bn over the next decade, an administration official said, as the White House prepares to lay out its most restrained economic and fiscal policy agenda since the US president took office two years ago 
Read more >> 
http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/5CN83E/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

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FT.com - Companies US & Canada
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Social networks or guessworks?
There are still precious few numbers to analyse and business models are no more proved than for dotcoms a decade ago 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/PRMQ5V/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

Exchange mergers
New exchange has significant businesses in New York, Frankfurt, London and Paris. It will be hard to cut 12 per cent of the combined cost base, as announced, without leaving one of these worse off 
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http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/XTIPEX/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

GE to pay $2.8bn for John Wood unit 
General Electric, the largest US industrial group by market capitalisation, will pay $2.8bn for the well-support division of John Wood Group, the UK oil services company, continuing its drive to expand in the energy industry by acquisition 
Read more >> 
http://link.ft.com/r/3JFELL/TPEUCV/AALPR/V1QB40/72POUK/XL/t?a1=2011&a2=2&a3=14

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