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• HSBC (LSE: HSBA.L - news) gets 97% support for rights issue – Shares open higher after £12.5bn offer

UK

• Darling set to admit forecast error
• TUC leader urges staff input over chiefs pay
• Myners urges radical shake-up of bank boards
• Budget earmarks £1bn to boost job market
• Darling told to raise tax breaks
• Hoon claims add to furore over expenses
• Employees lack of basic skills, CBI finds
• Brown urged to back Afghan troop boost
• Justice worst ministry for buying skills
• Pensions body seeks change to payments

Companies

• HK regulator to appeal PCCW (0008.HK - news) decision
• IBM (NYSE: IBM - news) and Sun deal talks stall
• HSBC gets 97% support for rights issue
• Aer Lingus (LSE: AERL.L - news) chief exec resigns suddenly
• Rio eyes $10bn rights issue option
• Nomura offers Lehman-style contracts
• Trading for clients lifts bank revenues
• New York Times (NYSE: NYT - news) threatens to close Boston Globe
• Investors maintain faith in emerging markets
• Exxon and Chevron (NYSE: CVX - news) take different paths to extract success

Markets

• HSBC rights issue lifts mood in London
• G20 leaders hail crisis fightback
• Asian shares rally to 6-month high
• Economic Outlook: Downturn offsets recovery
• Copper extends push but gold loses impetus
• Optimism hurts dollar and yen
• Late rally bucks grim US jobs data
• Banks and cars power recovery
• Chinas PMI shows signs of recovery
• Nationwide sees bounce in house prices
• Volatility boosts options exchanges

World

• Strong earthquake hits central Italy
• IMF urges eastern EU to adopt euro
• Darling set to admit forecast error
• Japan to unveil $100bn stimulus on Friday
• Obama urges EU to welcome Turkey
• North Korea missile launch condemned
• US prepared to oust bank chiefs
• Hong Kong warns of grave test
• Charges against Zuma set to be dropped
• Obama brings unity to Nato
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Comment

• Congress is preparing to underwrite a large and permanent expansion of US government spending obligations while failing to expand the tax base. So for how long will Barack Obama be able to keep his pledge not to raise income taxes for almost all Americans
• Why this will not be a normal cyclical recovery
• The London summit has not fixed the crisis
• How to save the market economy in Europe
• Christopher Caldwell on the politics of right and wrong

Lex

• Gazprom – In June the Russian group, with a market cap of $330bn, was the worlds third-largest company. Today, worth under $90bn, Gazprom is ranked 37th
• The response to the financial crisis has been more than unprecedented but soon national treasuries will run out of fiscal elbow room
• Corn (Paris: XD0023663632 - news) , wheat, soya and rice are trading at nearly half their 2008 peaks but that is still about double their 10-year average

THE TIMES

Cover story

• Darling: we underestimated recession

• IBM talks to buy Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVAD - news) break down
• Robert Dyas buyout plan lifts hopes for jobs
• YouGov’s profits slump amid recession
• British water companies flush away
• £1m dailyEasyJet chairman to step down early over conflict with Sir Stelios

UK

• HSBC is laughing all the way
• Welcome to the auction for our nuclear future
• MPs campaign against increasing beer taxes
• Hospitals report surge in weight-loss surgery
• Lord Leitch in line for top Lloyds job
• Whitehall demanded BAA probe
• Charities begin to fight back on home front
• Bankrupt Britain: 340 people go bust every day
• Fords guarantee to Visteon (NYSE: VC - news) staff

Companies

• Grid hopes to tap into US millions
• Geithner would oust chiefs at tax-aided banks
• Macau’s casinos place bets on protectionism
• Rio plots £8bn cash call
• New gold (NGD.TO - news) rush sweeps across America
• Royalty fees for The Police rock on
• Cadbury (LSE: CBRY.L - news) chews over European expansion
• RIM surprises market with strong results
• IBM close to lower price takeover deal for Sun

*Analysis

• High (HCO.NX - news) -speed rail must be for the people
• HSBCs success is a triumph for the City
• G20 gives us less reason to wallow in the gloom

THE TELEGRAPH

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• UK new car sales tumble in key month

• Taxpayers face £500 bill
• Aer Lingus boss Dermot Mannion resigns
• Iceland investigators turn to SFO
• London bankers pay for financial crisis
• How Obama unlocked G20
• HSBC investors back record £12.9bn issue

Markets

• HSBC leads FTSE 100 higher

Comments

• Swiss slide into deflation signal next chapter of crisis
• Beware talk of recovery

THE GUARDIAN

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• At least 27 killed after earthquake strikes Italy

• Car sales fall 30% despite new March number plates
• Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) denies whistleblower forced out
• Investors pin hopes on end to crisis
• Co-op asset managers warn against executive pay rises
• Management buyout ‘close to completion’ at retailer Robert Dyas
• Pawnbroker opens in Square Mile as City workers hock their Rolexes
• Don’t build your hopes up too soon
• Fashion retailer Peacocks grows as shoppers trade down
• Little Chef owner picks up doorstep lender Morses
• Halifax contradicts house price rise
• Brown backs assault on tax avoidance
• Recession claims 5m US jobs
• US watchdog calls for sacking of financial bosses

THE INDEPENDENT

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• Dozens killed in Italy earthquake NEW

• Jaguar Land-Rover to get EIB loan of £270m
• 09 plate fails to revive car sales NEW
• City scams target redundancy pay-offs, FSA warns
• Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO.L - news) plans £8bn contingency rights issue
• Surveys show rise in business confidence, despite doomsayers
• Invista Real Estate in move to Asian markets
• Strong support for HSBC rights issue
• UK music exports hit record levels