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FINANCIAL TIMES - Morning headlines
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Tuesday May 24 2011 

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Financial Times - US homepage
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Goldman says Brent crude will hit $130
Investment bank calls a bottom to the correction in commodity markets and advises clients to buy oil, copper and zinc after a 9 % price fall since the start of May 
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Obama flies in to consult ‘essential’ US ally
David Cameron hopes to be able to show that he and the US president, who is on a state visit to Britain, are aligned on the need for tough action on budget deficits 
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Microsoft to fight €899m Brussels fine
Lawyers for software group embark on a final tussle with EU in the battle over antitrust issues that have ensnared the software group for more than a decade 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/UUFPQR/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Markets stabilise but traders still cautious over eurozone
Asian shares fluctuate amid growing risk aversion as investors remain concerned over Europe’s sovereign debt problems and further signs of a global economic slowdown 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/18TG3U/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

OECD looks to measure the ‘better life’
Known for most of its 50 years as an establishment of orthodox economics, the organisation launches a ‘better life initiative’ to measure the quality of life in its 34 member countries 
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Financial Times - Financial markets news
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Commodities stocks lift FTSE 100 from two-month low
Goldman Sachs’ upbeat commodities note helps resource stocks lift the FTSE 100 from its two-month trough while Glencore fails to climb past its offer price as full share trading starts 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/C5AMOJ/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

New collateral rules will damage US financial sector
It makes more sense to upgrade accounting rules and improve public disclosure of derivatives, writes Andrew Feldstein 
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Moody’s restokes euro contagion fears
Worries over contagion spread to Europe’s equity markets, with stocks in Italy and Greece, the biggest fallers, down 3.3 per cent 
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Back to the blame game in oil
The dialogue between oil consuming countries and the Opec producers’ cartel is under threat, writes Javier Blas 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/BM276G/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Sony outlook helps lift Nikkei
Concerns over Europe’s sovereign debt problems failed to ignite the same level of fear in Asia’s equity markets that was seen in Europe and shares in the region moved a little higher 
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Financial Times - World
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Sarkozy calls for tighter web regulation
As the world’s most powerful web figures gather in Paris to debate governance, the French president renews his calls for boundaries and ‘minimum rules’ 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/18TG3K/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Ash disrupts flights over northern Europe
Hundreds of passengers faced travel delays as Iceland's volcanic ash cloud took its toll on airports in Norway, Denmark and Scotland 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/9ZCAGF/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

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FT.com - US
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Quick View: Asia deepens regulatory complexity
The proliferation of clearing houses in Asia raises the spectre of more post-trade services around the world, with regulators having insufficient oversight over them all  
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/S3JNIW/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Witness ties Pakistan to 2008 Mumbai attack 
David Headley, who pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator to the assault, says the plot was hatched with at least one Pakistani intelligence official and a navy frogman 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/26H8PE/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Nato launches heavy raids on Tripoli
Heavy explosions were heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli and a government spokesman said Nato air strikes had killed three people and wounded 150 in 'another night of killing' 
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Palestine's Fayyad suffers heart attack in US
The prime minister is now said to be in good condition at a hospital in Houston after suffering a heart attack while on a visit to attend his son's university graduation 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/GK5X2O/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Obama flies in to consult 'essential' US ally
David Cameron hopes to be able to show that he and the US president, who is on a state visit to Britain, are aligned on the need for tough action on budget deficits 
Read more >> 
http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/40GO1S/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

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FT.com - Companies US & Canada
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Microsoft to fight €899m Brussels fine
Lawyers for software group embark on a final tussle with EU in the battle over antitrust issues that have ensnared the software group for more than a decade 
Read more >> 
http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/72OVH8/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

US earnings expectations
Less than 60 per cent of US companies "beat" earnings expectations through last week, the worst showing since the awful final quarter of 2008, and more may be set to underdeliver   
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/YHUTRU/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Commodities stocks lift FTSE 100 from two-month low
Goldman Sachs' upbeat commodities note helps resource stocks lift the FTSE 100 from its two-month trough while Glencore fails to climb past its offer price as full share trading starts 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/A7VZ8Q/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Call for Lehman creditors to reveal positions
A group of hedge funds and pension funds opposing the Lehman estate's bankruptcy plan has asked the court to force Lehman's other creditors to reveal their current holdings of the bank's debts 
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http://link.ft.com/r/KC2844/XTU1TI/YLED4/BMCQ0I/BM276R/50/t?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=24

Yandex IPO prices at top of range
Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, is the latest beneficiary of investors' appetite for hot web companies  
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