On FT Alphaville this morning,
- Peculiar-sounding Brazilian interest in Alitalia.
- Some raw market information on Kazakhmys and Whitbread in Markets Live.
- Swiss Re’s derivatives blow.
- UBS layoffs in historical context.
- Microhoo!, Indiana Jones and the auto bubble, in further reading.
- FT Alphaville has won a Webby.
On FT.com,
- BAE Systems will have to publish and implement a code of ethical business conduct, a report recommended on Tuesday.
- Lloyds TSB’s prudence paid off in the first quarter, when it suffered less severely than some peers from falls in the value of asset-backed securities.
- Burma’s regime made a rare appeal for international help as Nyan Win, its foreign minister, said on state TV that 15,000 people had died in the devastating cyclone at the weekend.
- Another record for crude.
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