• Stocks Keep on Trucking
• SEC to Seek More Admissions of Guilt
• High-Frequency-Trading Firms Talk Merger
• Brazilian Firm Pulls IPO
• Swiss Resist U.S. Banks Deal

• Four from U.S. forces killed in attack in Afghanistan
• U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali funding
• NSA head, lawmakers defend surveillance programs
• United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
• Moves to limit contractor access to secrets meets resistance

• Mom, child held in 'subhuman' captivity
• Hundreds of Turks emulate 'Standing Man' in protest
• U.S.: Women in all combat units by 2016
• Long, strange search for Jimmy Hoffa
• One way to avoid a traffic jam

• Holding UK banks to higher standards
• Banks and UK state feel commission heat
• Google challenges US surveillance gag
• Wet, wet, wet for up to another 10 summers
• Votorantim suspends $4.9bn Brazil IPO

FT Alphaville - Market Commentary - FT.com

• The Closer
• Finland has a collateral credibility issue
• Tax needn’t be taxing. It can also be a Hungarian debt wheeze
• The central bank (communications) bubble
• “Companies should know who really owns them…”