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"FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times.support@ft.comTue, 20 May 2008 20:21 BSTTue, 20 May 2008 20:32:01 BSTNewspapers15http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/companies(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85377824-268d-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85377824-268d-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlMarket fears that American International Group may make more big credit-related writedowns rose after the troubled insurance group revealed it would raise about $20bn in new capital to protect its balance sheet Tue, 20 May 2008 18:00 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ff93df4e-2693-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ff93df4e-2693-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlHome Depot and Target, two of the largest US retailers, illustrated the regional nature of pressures on US consumers as they announced quarterly falls in sales and increasing pressures on creditTue, 20 May 2008 19:00 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71e1f9a0-268f-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71e1f9a0-268f-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlRandom House, the world's largest book publisher, is to be run by a print services executive from Germany, a move parent Bertelsmann hopes will bring new ideas to a slow-growing businessTue, 20 May 2008 18:23 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1652b12-2691-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1652b12-2691-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlIron ore and steel group Metalloinvest, is planning to float up to 25 per cent of the company in Moscow and London in an IPO this autumn Tue, 20 May 2008 18:32 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34a3ea0c-2690-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34a3ea0c-2690-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlExpro International, the oil services group that last month agreed a £14.35 a share cash offer from a consortium led by Candover, the private equity firm, published a strong final set of annual accounts as a quoted companyTue, 20 May 2008 18:38 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b5684dd8-260c-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b5684dd8-260c-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlThe Australian investment bank said challenging credit markets would make it difficult to lift earnings this financial year after it reported an annual profit of A$1.8bnTue, 20 May 2008 18:07 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a4a5ea60-2633-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a4a5ea60-2633-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlSir Stuart Rose took Marks and Spencer's profits back to a 10-year high but his moment of glory was blighted by expectations it would be the last time that he reached the £1bn milestone. Tue, 20 May 2008 20:21 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebc88c68-2665-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebc88c68-2665-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlA bid battle over one of the world's most important container shipping lines may be looming after Hamburg's state government said it would back a local offer for Hapag-LloydTue, 20 May 2008 17:30 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d4de47fe-2647-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d4de47fe-2647-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlThe Tokyo Stock Exchange is to draw up corporate takeover defence guidelines that could make it harder for listed companies in Japan to thwart unsolicited bidsTue, 20 May 2008 18:50 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f862da6-2607-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f862da6-2607-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlGoldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS are set to link their private stock trading operations, enabling their clients to use each others' interbank or intra-bank platformsTue, 20 May 2008 03:00 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7547cba0-264f-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7547cba0-264f-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlJapan's largest bank forecast no growth this year after taking a hit from the US subprime crisis and its own consumer finance business after tighter government regulationsTue, 20 May 2008 10:41 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34b91c32-2632-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34b91c32-2632-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlThe maker of Lambert & Butler, West and Gauloises cigarettes has launched a £4.9bn, one-for-two rights issue to help pay for last year's acquisition of Altadis of SpainTue, 20 May 2008 15:17 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b7a5194-2646-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b7a5194-2646-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.htmlThe interdealer broker reported a near 30 per cent increase in pre-tax profits following the unprecedented volatility in the world's financial markets in the last nine monthsTue, 20 May 2008 09:55 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74f45294-25f1-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74f45294-25f1-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlMicrosoft has proposed a deal to Yahoo that goes further than a partnership, although it still stops short of a full buy-out of the internet concern, according to a person familiar with the situationMon, 19 May 2008 23:35 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50a2b6bc-2603-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50a2b6bc-2603-11dd-b510-000077b07658.htmlUS regulators announced fraud charges stemming indirectly from the merger of Time Warner and AOL, the largest union in US corporate history and a symbol of the dotcom boom and bust of the early part of this decadeTue, 20 May 2008 02:00 BST