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Briefingi Pelosi vows to safeguard whistleblowerNancy Pelosi, the US House of Representatives’speaker, said she would ensure Donald Trump doesnot “intimidate” the whistleblower who firstsparked the impeachment inquiry.— PAGE 2i Iran to stand firm amid fuel protestsAyatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, saidthere will be no retreat from the increased fuelprices which have stoked the biggest protestsagainst the government in two years.— PAGE 2i US urges Haftar to stop Tripoli attacksThe US state department hasurged Libyan forces underGeneral Khalifa Haftar to halttheir offensive against the UN-backed government in Tripolias the capital’s 3m citizens arecaught in the crossfire.— PAGE 4i Moscow backs anti-EU expansion stanceVladimir Chizhov, Russia’s envoy to the EU, hasapplauded President Emmanuel Macron’sopposition to enlargement of the bloc, to highlightdivisions among European allies.— PAGE 2i Rajapaksa storms to Sri Lanka winSri Lanka’s former defence chief GotabayaRajapaksa has won the country’s presidentialelection to lead his family to a stunning politicalcomeback.— PAGE 4i FBI warned BofA against ConstellationThe FBI tried to warn Bank of America against theleveraged acquisition of Constellation HealthcareTechnologies, which later went bankrupt.— PAGE 6i Double award success for FT writerJosephine Cumbo was recognised for outstandinginstitutional pensions reporting at the State StreetPress Awards and won the Society of PensionProfessionals’ national journalist of the year award.DatawatchWall Street’s manBloomberg’s presidential bid gets thethumbs up from finance — PAGE 3Fess up now!How to handle mistakes at work— PILITA CLARK, PAGE 20Looming liabilitiesThe crisis shaking the globalpensions industry — BIG READ, PAGE 17MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2019WORLD BUSINESS NEWSPAPEREUROPEWorld MarketsSTOCK MARKETSNov 15Nov 8%WeekS&P 5003120.463093.080.89Nasdaq Composite8540.838475.310.77Dow Jones Ind28004.8927681.241.17FTSEurofirst 3001590.421588.910.10Euro Stoxx 503711.613699.650.32FTSE 1007302.947359.38-0.77FTSE All-Share4031.994055.66-0.58CAC 405939.275889.700.84Xetra Dax13241.7513228.560.10Nikkei23303.3223330.32-0.12Hang Seng26326.6627847.23-5.46MSCI World $2265.29-MSCI EM $1042.26-MSCI ACWI $541.14-CURRENCIESNov 15Nov 8$ per €1.1051.102$ per £1.2901.279£ per €0.8570.861¥ per $108.735 109.145¥ per £140.307 139.640SFr per €1.0931.099€ per $0.9050.907Nov 15Nov 8£ per $0.7750.782€ per £1.1681.161¥ per €120.174 120.289£ index79.68379.428SFr per £1.2771.275COMMODITIESNov 15Nov 8%WeekOil WTI $57.8457.390.78Oil Brent $63.4062.641.21Gold $1466.651484.25-1.19INTEREST RATESpriceyieldchgUS Gov 10 yr128.621.830.02UK Gov 10 yr147.540.640.02Ger Gov 10 yr-0.340.02Jpn Gov 10 yr118.39-0.080.00US Gov 30 yr109.292.310.02Ger Gov 2 yr105.78-0.650.01priceprevchgFed Funds Eff1.832.04-0.21US 3m Bills1.571.570.00Euro Libor 3m-0.44-0.440.00UK 3m0.790.790.00Prices are latest for editionData provided by MorningstarANNA NICOLAOU — NEW YORKTheChinesecompanybehindthepop-ularvide