| * China reopens government bond futures market * G20 leaders grapple with risks of reduced US monetary stimulus * Watchdog launches Batista investigation * Apple probes work conditions at China factory * China Yuan Volatility Near 2010 Low; Money Rates Decline in Week * Malaysia Risk Tops Philippines on Najib Budget Gap * Russia's Sergei Storchak warns on corporate foreign currency debt * Europe urges China to cede business control * Sri Lanka rolls dice on mega-casinos * Somalia moves to discredit UN report over funding fears * Markets: mainly up China reopens government bond futures market
Government bond futures have returned to China nearly two decades after a trading scandal that led to their being banned.
http://on.ft.com/17JzRI7 G20 leaders grapple with risks of reduced US monetary stimulus
Leaders at the Group of 20 summit were on Thursday grappling with the risks posed by a potential reduction of US monetary stimulus and worries over trade protectionism amid shift of economic momentum towards advanced economies.
http://on.ft.com/17cSANd Watchdog launches Batista investigation
Brazil's market regulator, CVM, has launched a formal investigation into the dealings of Eike Batista and executives at OGX as anger grows among investors over the near-collapse of his flagship oil company.
http://on.ft.com/17cSKEi Apple probes work conditions at China factory
Apple is investigating fresh allegations of poor working conditions at a Chinese factory said to be producing a cheaper iPhone, expected to be unveiled next week.
http://on.ft.com/17DEa5u China Yuan Volatility Near 2010 Low; Money Rates Decline in Week
Volatility in the yuan was near a three-year low after the People's Bank of China signaled it is prepared to manage the impact of a stimulus reduction by the Federal Reserve. Money-market rates fell this week.
http://bloom.bg/154sWup Malaysia Risk Tops Philippines on Najib Budget Gap
Malaysia's default risk climbed above that of the Philippines for the first time as Prime Minister Najib Razak seeks to avoid a debt-rating cut, while his counterpart pitches for upgrades.
http://bloom.bg/17cTjxU Russia's Sergei Storchak warns on corporate foreign currency debt
Russia's deputy finance minister has expressed concern about companies' rising foreign-currency debt levels amid recent emerging market turmoil.
http://on.ft.com/17DEvVQ Europe urges China to cede business control
European business representatives have accused Chinese regulators of unfairly targeting foreign companies in a series of recent corruption and monopoly investigations.
http://on.ft.com/17DEoth Sri Lanka rolls dice on mega-casinos
Faced with the necessity of reviving an economy ravaged by two decades of civil war, Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa is poised to make a particularly large wager: that the world's biggest gambling groups want to flock to the south Asian island to set up a series of new mega-casinos.
http://on.ft.com/1eliVfQ Somalia moves to discredit UN report over funding fears
Somalia has hired British and US consultants to discredit a UN report that claims rampant corruption in Mogadishu because it threatens to imperil donor funding and the return of foreign-held assets, including gold, totalling billions of dollars.
http://on.ft.com/1eliYIH Emerging Markets
MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.28% at 950.28 Europe
FTSE up -0.13% at 6,524
RTS up +0.17% at 1,342
Warsaw Wig up +1.33% at 46,442
FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.07% at 1,223 Americas
DJIA up +0.04% at 14,937
S&P 500 up +0.12% at 1,655
Bovespa up +1.23% at 52,352 Asia
Nikkei 225 down -1.45% at 13,861
Topix down -0.87% at 1,148
Hang Seng up +0.10% at 22,621
Shanghai Composite up +0.83% at 2,140
MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.32% at 444.15
CNX Nifty up +1.56% at 5,680 Currencies
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Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.09 at 115.35
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