PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Dec 15
Dec 15 (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
SAMSUNG APPEALS IN APPLE PATENT FIGHT
APPLE'S IRISH TAX DEAL FACES MORE SCRUTINY
CHENIERE BOSS TOPPLED AT MOMENT OF TRIUMPH
RPC TO BUY BOTTLE-TOPS MAKER
Overview
Samsung Electronics is taking its fight over design patents with Apple to the U.S. Supreme Court, where more than half a billion dollars is at stake on the ongoing fight.
Brussels has widened its probe into alleged tax deals with Apple. EU authorities have sent lengthy questionnaire sets to Ireland, which points to the probe lengthening well beyond the 2016 elections.
Charif Souki's Cheniere Energy will soon start exporting liquefied natural gas from the southern states of the U.S. to customers in Europe and Asia. Yet over the weekend Souki was ousted as chief executive, following a clash with the board. His ouster is a sign of the tensions that have emerged in the emerging U.S. LNG export industry
Plastic packaging producer RPC said it will buy Global Closure Systems in a deal that values the company at about 650 million euros. ($715.07 million)
($1 = 0.9090 euros) (Compiled by Ankush Sharma in Bengaluru)
