• Home Depot Raises Outlook
• Philip Morris to Buy Mexican Unit
• Sprint Boosts Bid for Clearwire
• Best Buy Swings to Loss
• Stocks Pare Early Gains

• Former IRS chief tells lawmakers "dismayed" by targeting
• Survivors pulled from Oklahoma tornado debris as toll lowered
• Senate panel hammers Apple over offshore tax strategies
• Israel fires back at Syria after gunshots at its troops
• UK's Cameron committed to ruling in coalition until 2015: spokesman

• Oklahoma tornado spread havoc like 'lawnmower blade'
• Are tornadoes getting stronger?
• Man kills himself at Paris cathedral
• Teachers being hailed as heroes
• 'Mom, everything's gone, nothing left'

• Apple chief faces harsh questions on tax
• Rescuers search for Oklahoma survivors
• Buckles bows out from G4S
• JPMorgan braced for investor criticism
• UK inflation falls to seven-month low

FT Alphaville - Market Commentary - FT.com

• Apple Live
• Everlasting credit, the long view
• Buyback to enrich
• Spain’s awful unemployment
• That soaraway Nikkei and the yen