UK Morning Headlines: 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     Qantas targets A$2bn package of cuts     Markets weaken across Asia-Pacific         Markets   Trade groups sue CFTC over swaps rules   CFTC accused of 'unlawfully circumventing' procedures, failing to conduct cost benefit analysis and imposing rules contrary to co-operation       Iran threatens to trigger oil price war     Rising US yields may force ECB's hand     US faces cash flood from world's savers     Gold mining stocks look like value traps   World News   Ukraine government prepared to discuss elections   First sign of potential compromise in the country's worst political crisis in nearly a decade       Cyber war tech exports to be regulated like arms     Inequality undermining society – Obama     EU considers asylum overhaul     Porn use tracked by hundreds of companies   UK News   Learn Mandarin, Cameron tells British pupils   PM wants Britain 'linked up to the world's fast growing economies' as he warns of risk of losing out by prioritising French and German       London builders forecast rise in prices     Energy group set to cancel wind farms     Three trims US roaming fee to lure custom     StanChart warns operating profit to fall   UK Companies   Metro Bank seeks £387m for expansion   Lender wants £100m more than planned to help it grow its lending and expand on the high street. The funding will come via a private capital raising       Hargreaves delays price announcement     StanChart loses its shine     Tesco chief attacks hard discounters     $1m in pledges for computer kits venture         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.