From Lionel Barber of the Financial Times 12/5/11

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01 Congress push to relax US securities laws Tom Braithwaite, Telis Demos and Shahien Nasiripour combined on an ahead-of-the-curve report on Senate efforts to loosen new financial regulations.

02 Thomson Reuters’ Glocer in early exit Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson beat Reuters to the news that Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer was leaving the company sooner than expected.

03 How to make Burma’s Botox revolution real  David Pilling wrote a strong column on how the US can help make Burma’s “Botox revolution” real.

04 Oil bulls have reason to think high prices may get higher Gregory Meyer deliverd a punchy On Wall Street column on 100 dollars a barrel crude - the impact of a possible ban on Iranian oil imports.

05 MF Global accessed client funds for weeks Kara Scannell and Tom Braithwaite revealed that Jon Corzine's MF Global may have been dipping into client accounts several weeks before the firm collapsed - a serious regulatory breach.

06 New York probes military foreclosures Shahien Nasiripour combed recent regulatory filings to uncover the news that leading US banks may have illegally foreclosed on the homes of up to 5,000 members of the US military. The New York attorney-general read the story and launched an investigation.

07 Rakoff racks up another tough ruling Kara Scannell crafted an entertaining and informative profile of Jed Rakoff, the US judge at the centre of so many big cases on Wall Street.

08 The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse Wolfgang Munchau's column declaring European leaders had ten days to save the euro generated huge hits.

09 The epic euro crisis disaster movie Robert Shrimsley's Notebook on the euro as the Titanic provided much-needed comic relief.

10 Dead interesting Lucy Kellaway wrote a hilarious account of her excursion into genealogy for the FT magazine.