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View an online version of this email here.  All times are London time: Monday May 04 2009 Financial Times - UK Homepage Fiat plans European car supergroup May 03 2009 19:45 Fiat plans to join its core cars division with Chrysler and General Motors Europe to form new publicly traded car company Read more » BofA and Citi in last push on stress tests May 03 2009 22:36 Citigroup and Bank of America are working on plans to raise more than $10bn each in fresh capital, even as they launch last-ditch attempts to convince the US government they do not need to bolster their balance sheets Read more » Jobs in balance in £1bn Eurofighter order May 03 2009 23:39 Agreement on a third production run of 236 aircraft between the four partner nations on the programme has been held up as the MoD and Treasury have tried to agree a deal over funding Read more » Financial Times - US homepage Fiat plans European car supergroup May 03 2009 19:45 Fiat plans to join its core cars division with Chrysler and General Motors Europe to form new publicly traded car company Read more » BofA and Citi in last push on stress tests May 03 2009 22:36 Citigroup and Bank of America are working on plans to raise more than $10bn each in fresh capital, even as they launch last-ditch attempts to convince the US government they do not need to bolster their balance sheets Read more » Conservative wins Panamanian vote May 04 2009 03:31 Multimillionaire supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli wins the central American state's presidential election, bucking a trend of left-wing leadership wins in Latin America Read more » Financial Times - Europe homepage Fiat plans European car supergroup May 03 2009 19:45 Fiat plans to join its core cars division with Chrysler and General Motors Europe to form new publicly traded car company Read more » BofA and Citi in last push on stress tests May 03 2009 22:36 Citigroup and Bank of America are working on plans to raise more than $10bn each in fresh capital, even as they launch last-ditch attempts to convince the US government they do not need to bolster their balance sheets Read more » Concerns raised over EU hedge fund rules May 03 2009 20:06 Planned regulations will make it more expensive to run funds from offshore centres and may drive many of these onshore, while affecting other classes of alternative investment Read more » Financial Times - Asia homepage Fiat plans European car supergroup May 03 2009 19:45 Fiat plans to join its core cars division with Chrysler and General Motors Europe to form new publicly traded car company Read more » BofA and Citi in last push on stress tests May 03 2009 22:36 Citigroup and Bank of America are working on plans to raise more than $10bn each in fresh capital, even as they launch last-ditch attempts to convince the US government they do not need to bolster their balance sheets Read more » Art prices likely to be hammered at NY auctions May 03 2009 19:00 Sotheby's expects its contemporary art auction to generate less than a quarter of the sales it did a year ago as art auctions take a hit this year as a result of the global economic downturn Read more » FT.com - World Chan hits back at WHO critics May 03 2009 17:42 Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organisation, has rebutted critics who claim the body has over reacted to the outbreak of swine flu and warned of the potential of a second wave of cases as in the Spanish flu of 1918 Read more » Japan offers $100bn for Asian economies May 03 2009 19:56 Japan has offered $100bn to help struggling Asian economies through bilateral currency swap agreements and guarantees for issues of yen-dominated bonds Read more » Conservative wins Panamanian vote May 04 2009 03:31 Multimillionaire supermarket chain owner Ricardo Martinelli wins the central American state's presidential election, bucking a trend of left-wing leadership wins in Latin America Read more » Concerns raised over EU hedge fund rules May 03 2009 20:06 Planned regulations will make it more expensive to run funds from offshore centres and may drive many of these onshore, while affecting other classes of alternative investment Read more » US mortgage cuts offer spending boost May 03 2009 22:36 Homeowners could save close to $18bn on their mortgage repayments this year as record low interest rates allow millions of borrowers to switch to cheaper home loans Read more » FT.com - Companies Fiat plans European car supergroup May 03 2009 19:45 Fiat plans to join its core cars division with Chrysler and General Motors Europe to form new publicly traded car company Read more » BofA and Citi in last push on stress tests May 03 2009 22:36 Citigroup and Bank of America are working on plans to raise more than $10bn each in fresh capital, even as they launch last-ditch attempts to convince the US government they do not need to bolster their balance sheets Read more » Berlin issues ultimatum to Landesbanken May 03 2009 23:38 The German government has issued an ultimatum to seven Landesbanken to consolidate or face exclusion from its plan to take toxic assets off banks' books Read more » EDF considers selling UK distribution network May 03 2009 23:38 EDF is weighing up the benefits of selling its distribution business in the UK as it attempts to reduce its debt gathered from foreign acquisitions Read more » Chinalco defends planned Rio deal May 03 2009 18:09 Wang Wenfu, president of Chinalco Overseas Holdings, spoke out against proposed changes to its investment in Rio Tinto Read more » FT.com - Financial Markets News Economic outlook: Bankers to weigh recovery signs May 03 2009 20:12 Meetings of the Bank of England and ECB provide significant events of the week Read more » FT.com - Comment and analysis Republicans all at sea as party sinks May 03 2009 19:29 The party needs to frame practical, coherent, and above all centrist alternatives to what Mr Obama and his congressional allies are doing. Instead, it wants to shore up its base, chant its slogans and purge its moderates. Yet this gleeful suicidal tendency is sad as well as funny, says Clive Crook Read more » Lady Thatcher would despise today's vision May 03 2009 19:11 She recognised that a paternalist government is the greatest despotism, and that human dignity resides in independence, individuality and self-determination, says Maurice Saatchi Read more » Europe must learn from Japan's experience May 03 2009 19:18 I see nothing in our situation or our policy response to persuade me that it will take less than a decade to get out of this, writes Wolfgang Münchau Read more » Troubled banks must be allowed a way to fail May 03 2009 19:01 The US has entrenched large, systemically important, 'too big to fail' financial institutions into the economic system, but failing to deal with them will have long-term consequences, writes Thomas Hoenig Read more » FT.com - Business Life Belgian rock who scaled a Swiss peak May 03 2009 18:59 An understated style took Paul Bulcke to the top of the world's biggest foods group Read more » Just what the doctor ordered May 03 2009 18:59 Original recipe Dr Pepper from Dublin, Texas, has won loyal fans Read more » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You have received this email because you have signed up for this briefing on FT.com Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe | Change your email address Change whether you receive this email as HTML or plain text | Forward this email to a friend Privacy policy | Advertise | Contact © Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2009. 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