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Kazakhmys spurns £7.05bn ENRC proposal
The London-listed, Kazakhstan-based copper miner rejected an indicative offer from compatriot ENRC that was pitched below Kazakhmys’ current share price
Citigroup considers $400bn asset sales
Bank moves to restore double-digit growth
Hizbollah seizes large parts of Beirut
Shuts down pro-government Hariri media
Hunter seeks to block Dobbies issue
Entrepreneur seeks to thwart Tesco
BA to resume move to Terminal 5
Crucial JFK route set to transfer
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UK Daily View: FT index confirms house price slowdown
Norma Cohen explains why the drop in prices is more modest than those recorded by other surveys
View from the Top: Jeff Zucker
The CEO of NBC Universal talks about the Olympics, the election and the writers’ strike
Love - an unusual casualty of the Iraq war
But newlyweds and families are again strolling through Baghdad zoo
Interactive
FT house price index
Interactive map: UK house prices fell by 0.2 per cent in April, while the March figure was revised downward to show a 0.2 per cent fall in the first back-to-back monthly reading of falling house prices since April 1995
China’s development
Monday: Chinese companies are set to become strong competitors for global market share, but what are the implications? Post a question for JPMorgan’s Jing Ulrich
FT Money Show
Podcast: Why borrowers can’t find no-fee standard mortgages; Nicola Horlick on a fund manager’s secrets to secure high returns; and how to avoid 40% inheritance tax. Matthew Vincent and his team investigate.
Comment
The financial crises of capitalism
The beginning of wisdom is to recognise that booms and busts have been a feature of capitalism from the start, writes Samuel Brittan
Tibet’s case for self-rule
The country’s sense of identity and the gross oppression of its citizens are much clearer than in Kosovo’s case, writes Paul Harris
We must repel barbarians from Auntie’s gates
The BBC enriches Britain in ways that will only be seen when it is gone and it is too late to rebuild it, says Stephen Fry
Restore ethical finance standards
Ethics is not only acting correctly; it is also not trying to avoid regulation even if one thinks one can get away with it, writes Evelyn de Rothschild
Lex
Grand Theft Auto
Let’s hear it for violence and mayhem. Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest instalment of the videogame franchise published by New York-based Take-Two, racked up sales of $500m this week after seven days on release – more than double the record weekly take for any movie
Global imbalances
The cure was said to be a cheaper dollar and a US recession. Now that America’s currency has dropped by about a quarter on a trade-weighted basis since early 2002, and its economy has ground to a halt, are global imbalances being resolved?
Editorial comment
The dollar danger is not over yet
Verbal intervention on the US currency and euro is welcome – but it is time for verbal intervention on the rupee and renminbi as well
Bomb-proof banks
The best advice to Wall Street is to restructure swiftly. Take the pain but appoint someone to take the flak – the more uncharismatic, the better
Burma’s tragedy
Let us at least hope this cyclone undermines the junta, whose response to this tragedy has already earned it a place in the annals of infamy
