Shares in Cable & Wireless Worldwide rose by almost 30 per cent after Vodafone confirmed that it was in early…
Nomura has won regulatory approval to take over a finance company from GE Capital?s China business, the first step in…
Book retailers have struck back at Amazon, the online retailer posing a threat to their businesses, by refusing to sell…
China has instructed its banks to embark on a mammoth rollover of loans to local governments, delaying the country?s reckoning…
Good times are coming back to America. The Dow is flirting with pre-recession levels.
Internet dating companies are expecting a boost in business in the run-up to Valentine?s day as increasing numbers of people…
Compared with the poverty and strict authoritarianism of post-Cultural Revolution China, Muscatine, Iowa must have seemed obscenely affluent.
Fidelity Worldwide Investments, the London-based fund manager, has joined a growing chorus of Xstrata shareholders seeking a change in the…
President Barack Obama will set out a budget on Monday designed to slash the deficit while investing in infrastructure, education…
There is something not right about the world economy, or at least the older developed countries.
The demise of ?risk-on, risk-off? style trading across markets is welcome news to the battered ranks of stockpickers.
Harry Potter and Viagra have more in common than you may imagine. They came to market within a year of…
Brewing in Africa is on a roll. With Americans spurning beer for spirits, British pubs closing at a rate of…
Bunge, one of the world?s leading suppliers of agricultural commodities, reported sharply lower results in international trading and forecast tough…
Digital revenues from Publicis Groupe?s US business are set to overtake those from traditional advertising this year, a first for…
The fledgling commodities operation of the Singapore Mercantile Exchange will launch the first global futures contract for black pepper on…
Japan has vowed to make unilateral moves to weaken the yen if necessary, in an unusually bold statement of intent.
Chinese banks are filling in for European lenders in US agricultural finance, helping preserve trading activity in sugar and other…
