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Six banks to be fined at least $2 billion for rate rigging
BRUSSELS - EU regulators will levy a fine of at least $2 billion on six financial institutions, including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, for rigging the yen Libor interest rate benchmark. Full Article
U.S. looking for 'first step' from Iran in nuclear talks
GENEVA - The United States wants Iran to agree in negotiations this week a "first step" that stops its nuclear program advancing further and starts reversing parts of it, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
Yasser Arafat was poisoned: widow
PARIS - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse. Full Article | Slideshow: A look back
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Chaos in Libya hampers food imports
TRIPOLI - Payments problems, chaos and corruption are hampering Libyan importers from making big deals to buy wheat. Full Article
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Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan clinch pipeline deals
ANKARA - Iraqi Kurdistan sealed a package of deals with Turkey to build multi-billion dollar oil and gas pipelines to ship reserves to world markets, creating important geo-political consequences for the Middle East. Full Article
Colombia and FARC reach 'fundamental' accord
HAVANA/BOGOTA - Colombia's government and FARC rebels reached a "fundamental agreement" on the guerrillas' future in politics during peace talks aimed at ending the five-decade-long conflict between the two groups. Full Article
Cracks form in frontier markets
LONDON - Emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America offer huge natural resources and young populations. But the surge in interest may already be priced into the market, making bargains hard to find. Full Article
Breakingviews Insider: Tesla’s Musk is human
Nov. 6 - Breakingviews columnists discuss shareholders’ unrealistic expectations for the entrepreneurial darling and why financial results are solid for Tesla and another Elon Musk company, SolarCity.
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Pop or drop for Twitter IPO?
The countdown is on, and the price is heading up as Twitter gets ready for its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Video
Traders claim oil price-fixing scheme
A group of longtime traders say there's a broad price-fixing scheme in the crude oil markets, Bloomberg reports. Read more at Counterparties
How drones turn murderers into martyrs
The Bush and Obama administrations have allowed Pakistani military officials to lie to their own people about Pakistan’s tacit support of the strikes. In exchange for the ability to carry out drone strikes, the United States serves as the Pakistan military’s punching bag. Commentary
Small is beautiful in finance
Mark Carney is wrong to say a vibrant financial sector brings substantial benefits. Finance is a cost, not a component, of prosperity. Commentary
Russell Brand's socialist revolution
In his recent prolix, occasionally graceful rantings and writings, comedian Russell Brand touches on matters of great importance and danger. In developing societies, masses of people are dirt poor. In wealthy societies, young men and women at the bottom of the social heap cannot find jobs. Commentary
Healthcare.gov is just the beginning
The Affordable Care Act is the first major law implemented almost entirely online. It’s the template for the future, and rather than using the law's launch as an excuse to attack it anew, we need to learn what we can. Like this bill or not, it is part of the next wave of government. Commentary
Chinese reform is coming, but not the political kind
Steering a large bureaucracy like China's is supposed to take time. And yet, Xi Jinping is proving the conventional wisdom wrong. After just six months at the helm, Xi is already clearly on track to accomplish far more than his predecessor Hu Jintao. Commentary
The NSA and the weakness of American power
The public outrage that the NSA has spawned could be more damaging to the transatlantic relationship than the Iraq war was a decade ago. Commentary
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