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Financial Times

• G8 splits over stimulus versus austerity May 19, 2012
  Merkel resists efforts by other G8 leaders to push eurozone to do more to stimulate growth […]
• Bomb explodes outside Italian school May 19, 2012
  Stunned Italians see parallels with the events of 20 years ago when the mafia responded to a crackdown with bombing attacks […]
• Chinese activist flies to the US May 19, 2012
  Departure of Chen and his family brings to an end the worst diplomatic spat between Beijing and Washington in over a decade […]
• Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-off May 18, 2012
  News Corp’s chief has moved to quash talk about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, saying publishing would remain ‘a core component’ […]
• Hollande holds line on tax and troops May 18, 2012
  French president tells UK’s Cameron he will not reverse pre-election pledges on financial transaction levy and Afghan withdrawal […]
• Faltering start for the new Facebook May 18, 2012
  Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday […]
• Briton to head development bank May 18, 2012
  Sir Suma Chakrabarti will be the first non French or German president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development […]
• Banking: Back to the wall May 18, 2012
  JPMorgan Chase’s $2bn loss tarnishes the reputation of chief executive Jamie Dimon as a hawk-eyed risk manager prepared to confront regulators […]
• Eurozone equities panic sale warning May 18, 2012
  Private clients warned not to ditch equities in the face of deepening euro crisis. […]
• Spain hit by rise in bad bank loans May 18, 2012
  Value of bad loans held by banking sector increased a third during the past year to €148bn and accounted for 8.4% of their entire loan portfolios […]

Wall Street Journal

• SpaceX Aborts Rocket Launch May 19, 2012
  Launch of the first private spacecraft aimed at docking with the international space station was scrubbed at the last split-second early Saturday, due to a technical problem. […]
• Facebook's IPO Sputters May 19, 2012
  Facebook shares struggled to stay above their $38 IPO price, as Wall Street bankers stepped in to prevent the newly minted stock from ending its first day with an embarrassing loss. […]
• China: Solar-Panel Tariff May Backfire May 19, 2012
  China unleashed a storm of protest criticizing the U.S. decision to impose a 31% antidumping tariff on Chinese solar-panel makers. […]
• Dewey Moves Closer to Bankruptcy Filing May 19, 2012
  Dewey & LeBoeuf is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered New York law firm. […]
• Chesapeake Cuts Pay, Jet Travel for Board May 19, 2012
  Chesapeake Energy said board members will take a 20% pay cut and no longer have personal use of company aircraft, the latest move by the embattled natural-gas company to placate critics. […]
• Winnebago Gets Offer May 19, 2012
  Winnebago Industries received a $322 million takeover offer from a private-equity firm that wants to bring foreign car and truck assembly to the recreational vehicles maker. […]
• For Gupta Trial, Tension and Tips May 19, 2012
  Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta say he was estranged from convicted hedge-fund mogul Raj Rajaratnam at the time of some alleged tips. Prosecutors say the friendship broke down much later. […]
• MF Global Trustee Collects $168 Million May 18, 2012
  J.P. Morgan agreed to hand over $168 million to a bankruptcy trustee representing customers of MF Global. […]
• Dow Swoons for Sixth Day May 18, 2012
  A day billed as Facebook's coming-out party ended up marking a much gloomier event: the stock market's worst week in six months. […]
• GM to Forgo Pricey Super Bowl Ads May 18, 2012
  General Motors has decided it won't advertise in the next Super Bowl, balking at steep ad rates as the auto maker overhauls its global marketing operations. […]