Google considers online auction of IPO shares Google is considering holding a huge online auction of shares early next year in an initial public offering that could help break Wall Street's hold on the IPO business.
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Worries about the strength of the recovery in the US look likely to push shares lower at the open. Microsoft warned that corporate spending remained weak after the close on Thursday.
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On board with Bush In the first of two instalments, James Harding, the FT's Washington bureau chief, gives a behind the scenes account of President Bush's tour of Asia. Read his account of life inside the "bubble" as, the White House press corps is known, including embarrassing diplomatic gaffes and Mr Bush's aversion to Sushi, and other moments from life inside the "bubble". Plus, view FT.com's interactive picture guide to the tour. Oct 23 2003 | Read
We do not always have the knowledge to improve the affairs of distant countries. As a result, it is doubtful that the welfare of those we purport to help is enhanced.
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Ten years after a Berlusconi-led government fell from power it is déjà vu: ill thought-out pension reform and a government on the brink of dissolution, write Martin Rhodes and David Natali.
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Iraq's economy needed reconstructing long before the war that toppled Saddam Hussein, writes Kamal Shair, chairman of the Dar Group, a global development consultancy.
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When racial grouping can help cure Some scientists maintain that race can serve as a useful, if crude, indicator in sorting out why people experience diseases differently and in finding new targets for drugs. 18:49 | Read
The world needs a new body to monitor migration We have only a fragmented set of organisations to deal with flows of humanity, writes Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University. 20:09 | Read