In today's FT: Osborne holds out prospect of surplus, Young face wo...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday December 05 2013     UK Homepage   Osborne holds out prospect of surplus   Chancellor will stress more austerity and painful spending cuts lie ahead, but start making intellectual case for tax cuts to sustain 'responsible recovery'       Young face working until 70     Biden urges Xi to lower regional tensions         Video   Payback time   Ireland's biggest bank by assets is placing almost €600m new shares as part of a deal to pay back state aid. Lex writers Oliver Ralph and Vincent Boland discuss the bank's capital base and the prospects for the state's 15 per cent equity stake in the bank.   US homepage   Inequality undermining society – Obama   Barack Obama said the focus of his second term would be income inequality which he said had become the 'defining issue of our time'       Cyber war tech exports to be regulated like arms     Icahn scales back Apple buyback demand   Europe homepage   Ukraine government prepared to discuss elections   First sign of potential compromise in the country's worst political crisis in nearly a decade       Qantas targets A$2bn package of cuts     Markets weaken across Asia-Pacific   Asia homepage   Better US jobs data could sway Fed taper   Improving jobs data could have a crucial influence on the Fed's decision on when and how to slow its asset purchases       China air zone poses dilemma to Japan     Thai protest leader vows win by year end   World News   EU considers asylum overhaul   Allowing migrants to seek asylum from outside the EU would be a shift in policy, which forces them to undertake often perilous trips to reach Europe       Porn use tracked by hundreds of companies     French prostitution law wins vote     Human DNA decoded from ancient thigh     Brussels inaction on food rules attacked   Companies News   Container lines in merger talks   Hapag-Lloyd operates world's sixth-largest container ship fleet, according to Alphaliner, an information service, while CSAV's fleet ranks number 20       US company chiefs push for budget deal     Trade groups sue CFTC over swaps rules     Gazprom pushes for peace with Europe     EU hits six groups with rate-fixing fines   Markets   Iran threatens to trigger oil price war   Opec maintains its production target as Tehran warns it will increase output even if crude prices tumble to $20 a barrel       Rising US yields may force ECB's hand     US faces cash flood from world's savers     Gold mining stocks look like value traps     Commodity trackers flee at record pace   Comment   Public parks nurture private wealth   Cities have a duty to the wider population to ensure that such works amount to more than a benefit scheme for one segment       The young are being squeezed by the old     India out of the woods but far from safe     A sceptic on drones and digital shopping     Innovation requires state support   Management   The need to rein in perfectionism   Managers who demand a flawless performance from their employees are in danger of displaying a serious management fault themselves       Open EU borders are reciprocal and fair     Big budgets sell the hottest tickets     Design space: Air France recycles cutlery         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.