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Authorities say counter-raid stopped second terrorist threat after earlier assault

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Global Market Overview
Asian markets follow US stocks lower

S&P 500 sees biggest one-day fall since May as traders react to US political turmoil

US banks
Credit card providers count the cost of freebies

With losses on the rise, the end of the ‘rewards war’ is on the horizon

Renewable Energy
Eclipse sheds light on growth in US solar energy

Need for replacement power sources as the skies darken highlights the sector’s growth

US
Bannon and Cohn struggle for White House supremacy

Defenders of Trump’s stance on white nationalism square up to moderates over policy

The Big Read
Germany: the hidden divide in Europe’s richest country
Big Tech learns a lesson in accountability

Facebook, Google and other groups clamp down on white nationalists

Gillian Tett
Trump puts the great ‘Cohn trade’ in doubt

Stock markets are flushed with central bank liquidity and boosted by moderate growth

North Korea nuclear tensions
US ready to use force on North Korea, says Tillerson

Secretary of state makes show of unity with Japan amid mixed signals from White House

Oil & Gas
Shell’s $14bn gas bet with world’s biggest floating structure

Energy group’s offshore LNG facility must prove technology can be cost-effective

Analysis Banks
Duke’s independent streak faces test at Wells Fargo

Straight-talking new chairman must deal with aftermath of sham accounts scandal

Media
Vice’s Charlottesville film reinforces profile

Youth-oriented media company captured hate and anger up close

China Business & Finance
Chinese stocks get unified Hong Kong treatment

End to split of H-shares and red chips as market struggles to find best China gauge

US News

US race relations
Trump says ‘foolish’ to remove Confederate symbols

President is unbowed by broad criticism of his response to white nationalist violence

Analysis Pharmaceuticals
Generic drugmakers feel pinch as prices crumble

Intensified competition hurts copycat pharma groups while buyers drive harder bargain

FTfm
Gundlach steps up his assault on ‘fake news’

Famed bond investor uses his Twitter feed to lash out at reporters

Libor scandal
FDIC sues Barclays, RBS and other banks over Libor

Agency claims failed US lenders lost money because rate was manipulated downwards

Opinion

Tim Harford
Mental bias leaves us unprepared for disaster

We are always cutting cognitive corners, especially in finance

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Bannon says US and China in economic war

Donald Trump’s strategist attacks Beijing, heightening tensions

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Bannon says US and China in economic war
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South Korea's 'red line' warning
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Trump and the corporate backlash
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Expats
China a home from home for Senegalese entrepreneur Adja Sy

Adja Sy’s move to Shanghai was eased by the speed with which she was able to launch her skincare brand

Food Diet & Health
Myanmar political change brings food revolution

Restaurateurs and gourmets hope cosmopolitan cuisine will go global

Sales & Marketing
Christie’s makes a bid for online sales

The auction house is adapting to a customer base buying from home or the beach house

Markets News

Global Market Overview
Asian markets follow US stocks lower

S&P 500 sees biggest one-day fall since May as traders react to US political turmoil

The Big Read
The perils of calling the peak of the equities bull run

By many measurements, today’s stock markets are overvalued but investors are struggling to work out when or if a crash will come

Emerging market investing
EM funds see first weekly withdrawals in five months

Investors pull $1.6bn on geopolitical tensions and concern over US business agenda

Technology

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Lenovo reports Q1 loss on higher marketing, component costs
Lex
Medical robotics: code comfort Premium

US specialists will have the lead in event of an arms race

Life & Arts

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