FT News in Focus

The Brazil president's second term in office has had a shaky start, with a barrage of corruption allegations fuelling discontent over the country's economic woes and even talk of impeachment. Fiona Symon asks Joe Leahy, FT Brazil bureau chief, how bad things look for Dilma Rousseff.

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The City of London is celebrating the departure of Martin Wheatley as head of the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, asks Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent, whether this ushers in a more lenient era for the banks.

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Error rates in spreadsheets are frighteningly high and small mistakes can have significant impacts. But is this enough to justify testing in spreadsheets along the lines of what software developers do for code? Lisa Pollack reports on this and more from the 16th annual conference of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group.

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Were the two big deals resulting from this week's marathon diplomatic talks about Greece and Iran worth celebrating? Henry Mance reviews what the FT commentators said.Also in the highlights of the week: drug baron Joaquin Guzman's escape from a Mexican prison. And why hasn't the wealth management industry realised that in many of Britain's wealthiest households, women are the highest earners?

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Eliot Higgins has become a leading authority on the conflict in Syria by monitoring social media sites to piece together what's happening on the ground. FT technology editor Ravi Mattu spoke to him about his groundbreaking citizen journalism.

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The outlook for Greece's banks has improved now that the government has reached an agreement with its creditors. Patrick Jenkins, the FT's financial editor, discusses what happens next, with FT investment banking correspondent Laura Noonan

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Iranians tell Najmeh Bozorgmehr, FT correspondent in Tehran, of their hopes for an improved economic outlook when sanctions are lifted

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Jude Webber, FT correspondent in Mexico City, tells Fiona Symon why the escape of the country’s most famous fugitive, Joaquin Guzman, represents such a blow to the country's reforming president Enrique Peña Nieto.

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Henry Mance scrolls through the week's news and offers his selection of the best of the FT podcasts. This week: money - Chinese investors are losing it, George Osborne is juggling it, Greece is running out of it and Microsoft's chief executive is too busy talking about ecosystems, DNA and magical things to even mention it.

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A decade-old corruption scandal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has erupted on to the national political stage following the sudden death of a number of witnesses and an investigative journalist. Fiona Symon asks Victor Mallet, the FT's South Asia bureau chief, what's going on.

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