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Fed signals tightening by mid-2015

New ‘patient’ judgment replaces forecast of low rates for ‘considerable time’

US Markets Live special FOMC edition
Smart Money Fed must not bounce from crisis to bubble
Fed may add to emerging markets pressure

3:18am

Sony scraps film release on hacker threat

Largest US cinemas had opted out of screenings of ‘The Interview’

9:57pm

Oracle catches up in the cloud

Larry Ellison challenges Salesforce.com as results beat forecasts

7:00pm

Rouble crisis opens up Putin to attack

Financial upheaval alters terms of Russian political debate

NEW GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW

Fed patience is a virtue for equity bulls

Rising oil and rouble whets global risk appetite

Jeb Bush announces plans to explore running for president in 2016...epa04531291 (FILE) A file picture dated 07 October 2006 shows then US president George W. Bush (C) with his father former President George H.W. Bush (L), and his brother then Florida Governor Jeb Bush following a christening ceremony the US Navy's new aircraft carrier the George H.W. Bush, at the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. According to news reports on 16 December 2014, Jeb Bush has announced that he was exploring possibilities to run for the White House in 2016. EPA/MATTHEW CAVANAUGH

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3:07pm WORLD

Jeb Bush’s interests face scrutiny

Donors are concerned about Bush’s complex business dealings

8:09pm COMPANIES

BlackBerry Classic: hands-on review

Upgrade is a reminder that the keyboard king has not kept up

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2:10am COMPANIES

Chevron drops Arctic drilling plan

Company cites “economic uncertainty” in oil industry for shelving the long-term project

The Big Read: The long-haul gamble

A profitable, low-cost, long-haul model across the Atlantic. Who can make the idea work and bring in money?

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6:20pm COMPANIES

IBM boosts global data centre network

US tech group to add nine facilities in cloud computing race

Inside Business Tech companies split on cloud computing
IBM lightening the load

MADRID, SPAIN - OCTOBER 14: In this photo illustration the new smart phone taxi app 'Uber' shows how to select a pick up location next to a taxi lane on October 14, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. 'Uber' application started to operate in Madrid last September despite Taxi drivers claim it is an illegal activity and its drivers currently operate without a license. 'Uber' is an American based company which is quickly expanding to some of the main cities from around the world. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

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1:19am COMPANIES

Uber pledges to improve driver checks

Company researching biometric verification to screen drivers

New ways of attacking cancer cells are being developed

3:52pm COMPANIES

Juno IPO highlights latest buzz in US biotech

Cell therapy specialist poised for listing as sector draws investors

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10:31pm MARKETS

China reopens to Syngenta corn strain

Beijing ban cost trading houses hundreds of millions of dollars

Comment and Analysis

People take pictures in front of the Snapchat Inc. headquarters on the strand at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Snapchat is a photo and video sharing application that allows the user to pre-set a period of time, no more than ten seconds, for the receiver to view the content before it disappears from the screen. Photographer: Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg

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12:57am TECH BLOG from COMPANIES

Snaphack: Sony leak spreads to tech sector

Secretive Snapchat business plan exposed

epa03505671 The oil minister of Saudi Arabia, Ali Naimi , before the 162nd Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Vienna, Austria, 12 December 2012. EPA/HERBERT PFARRHOFER

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Dec 17, 2014 MARKETS INSIGHT from MARKETS

Why Opec is increasingly irrelevant

Saudis have sent message that market not Opec should decide oil prices

The Big Drop Falling oil takes green energy’s wind
In depth Oil: the big drop

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6:26pm ANDREW MCAFEE from COMMENT

Google News, drones and regulators

Is it worse when the authorities take action in the face of technological progress, or when they sit idle?

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