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PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Jan 20

Published 20/01/2017, 11:25 am
Updated 20/01/2017, 11:30 am
© Reuters. PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Jan 20

Jan 20 (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

Trump picks billionaire owner of New York Jets as UK ambassador

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BHP and Vale agree deadline to settle $48bn Brazil disaster claim

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Barratt's finance chief departs with immediate effect

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Martin McGuinness to retire from Northern Ireland politics due to illness

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Overview

* President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that National Football League team owner Woody Johnson was "going to St. James," indicating he would assume the plum diplomatic post of U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.

* Miner BHP Billiton Ltd BHP.AX , BLT.L , its partner Vale SA VALE5.SA and their jointly owned Samarco unit have agreed with Brazilian prosecutors on a June 30 deadline to settle billions of dollars in compensation claims stemming from an iron ore mine disaster in 2015.

* Britain's biggest house builder Barratt BDEV.L said on Thursday its Chief Finance Officer Neil Cooper had left the firm by mutual agreement just over a year after he joined.

* Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, a key figure throughout five decades of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, said on Thursday he was bowing out of politics and would not lead his nationalist party into elections in March.

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