Financial Times - Comment 6/20

Financial Times - Comment

Big Steel is a very big problem for China

In terms of being a profitmaking enterprise, Wisco is a large part of an ailing, inefficient industry that Beijing appears unable to discipline http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/9MLJN4/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

End the nuclear stand-off with Tehran

Rohani has the authority to craft a compromise: he won a landslide victory in the popular vote and has the approval of the supreme leader http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/3CFYQV/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

America cedes cyber moral high ground

After the NSA leaks it will be more difficult for Washington to cast China Inc as some unholy alliance of the state and a phoney private sector http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/871SRG/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

The trial of Fred Goodwin

The idea of establishing a criminal offence of ‘recklessly mismanaging a UK bank’ makes one wonder how it might have applied to the ex-RBS chief http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/A5TRNC/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

Britain’s banks are still a danger to the real economy

Is the UK economy now protected from the City? The simple answer is No – there is still some way for the reforms to go http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/PN50VY/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

GE has second chance to grab IT prize

GE’s burgeoning internet ambition was put on display this week, as it laid out a partnership with a group of technology companies, including Amazon http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/IECTBK/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

US and Russia find common ground on Syria

At the G8 discussions on Syria, Mr Putin was only too happy to be seen standing up to the western leaders pushing him to drop the Assad regime http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/T1KA7S/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20

Japanese patient needs stronger medicine

The problem remains yen strength, not weakness. In other words, the markets are questioning whether the Bank of Japan has done enough http://link.ft.com/r/4RNQTT/3CEF5P/ZBHOFE/7AC96C/PN502N/28/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=20