Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:13pm EDT
Aug 16 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Headlines
Sell-off as markets expect early Fed move
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Dell earnings slide amid deal wrangle
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John Paulson's faith in gold unshaken despite ETF sale
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L'Oréal offers to buy Chinese face mask company for $840 mln
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Demand surges for copper in China
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Overview
Equity and bond markets fell on Thursday over fears of an early intervention by the U.S. Federal Reserve to slow its support to the U.S. economy after data showed a strengthening labour market and higher inflation.
PC maker Dell announced its second-quarter results almost a week earlier than scheduled and just one day before a court will hear arguments over opposition to a deal proposal to take the company private.
Paulson & Co, the hedge fund run by John Paulson, one of the world's highest-profile gold bulls, more than halved its stake in SPDR Gold Trust GLD when the bullion price lost nearly a quarter of its value.
L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics group, has offered to buy a Chinese facial mask specialist for $840 million.
Chinese copper premiums, the cost of physical copper over and above the benchmark futures prices, have more than tripled since the start of 2013 to a high of more than $200 a tonne, in a further sign that China's appetite for commodities is picking up again.
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