| * Biden urges Xi to lower regional tensions * Ukraine government prepared to discuss elections * Brazil slows down * India out of the woods but far from safe * China issues 4G mobile licences * Iran threatens to trigger oil price war * Markets weaken across Asia-Pacific region * Gazprom pushes for peace with Europe * Markets: down! Biden urges Xi to lower regional tensions
US vice-president Joe Biden calls on China to reduce tensions with its neighbours in meetings with President Xi Jinping
http://on.ft.com/1bJqJsD Ukraine government prepared to discuss elections
First sign of potential compromise in the country's worst political crisis in nearly a decade
http://on.ft.com/1bJqHRB Brazil slows down
The time has come for Dilma Rousseff to change tack. Were economic conditions to worsen, voters could begin to look for alternatives to the ruling Workers' party
http://on.ft.com/1bJqJsF India out of the woods but far from safe
The starry-eyed optimism of just a few years ago when Indians talked about growing faster than China is as though from another era
http://on.ft.com/1bJqJsG China issues 4G mobile licences
China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom get formal approval to build rapid mobile internet networks in the world's biggest telecoms market
http://on.ft.com/1bJqHRF 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 $20 a barrel
http://on.ft.com/1iyCGFm Markets weaken across Asia-Pacific region
The moves may be small but the direction is clear: equity markets are weaker across the Asia-Pacific region. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index are each down 0.3 per cent, while mainland shares on the Shanghai Composite dipped 0.2 per cent.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/30ccc034-5d5d-11e3-81bd-00144feabdc0.html Gazprom pushes for peace with Europe
Gazprom is suing for peace with Brussels and embarking on talks to settle a sweeping antitrust investigation that threatened its business model in Europe.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40ba595c-5d03-11e3-a558-00144feabdc0.html Emerging Markets
MSCI Emerging Market Index down -0.06% at 995.16 Americas
DJIA down -0.16% at 15,890
S&P 500 down -0.13% at 1,793
Bovespa down -0.26% at 50,216 Asia
Nikkei 225 down -0.91% at 15,268
Topix down -0.56% at 1,234
Hang Seng down -0.32% at 23,653
Shanghai Composite down -0.12% at 2,249
MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.08% at 552.50
CNX Nifty up +1.88% at 6,277 Currencies
€/$ 1.36 (1.36)
$/¥ 102.25 (102.35) Commodities
Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.26 at 111.62
Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.17 at 97.37
100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -8.00 at 1,240 | 
