Hit hamster range lifts Character Group - at FT.com - 30 minutes ago
Toymaker and distributor The Character Group has predicted Christmas shortages of its most popular lines of children's gifts, including Go Go Pets, based on a range of battery-powered interactive hamsters.

Timeframe offers scant reassurances to Afghans - at FT.com - 40 minutes ago
A decision by Barack Obama, the US president, to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan will come as a relief to American commanders desperate to seize the military initiative from the insurgents.

Obama gambles his presidency on Afghanistan - at FT.com - 1 hour, 0 minutes ago
What would have been barely thinkable a year ago was by Tuesday night almost déjà vu. In announcing 30,000 new US troops for Afghanistan following three months of leak-riddled deliberation, Barack Obama has with great reluctance created his own analogue of the 21,500 troop surge George W.

SMX secures regulatory approval - at FT.com - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Asia's newest commodity derivatives exchange said it had been given the go-ahead by regulators and would start trading in the first quarter of next year.

EU regulator steps up row on accounting rules - at FT.com - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
A senior European Union regulator on Tuesday stepped up the row over the introduction of new global accounting standards in response to the crisis, warning of a split between the US and Europe and calling for an independent review of the global standard-setter.

Full text: Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan - at FT.com - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan United States Military Academy at West Point

Exxon CEO's bonus cut by 40% - at FT.com - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, will receive a 7 per cent increase in salary to $2.2m in 2010, but his year-end bonus for 2009 is to drop by almost half.