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Chewing over their position: Nestlé boss Paul Bulcke and his board fear that a combined Kraft/Cadbury could threaten their market share

Likely bid war for Cadbury sends shares to record high

Cadbury shares raced to another record high this morning as investors bet that a fierce bidding war for control of the 185-year old company is about to breakout Comments

Lloyds flushed with success as investors buy Ł7bn of CoCos

Lloyds claimed strong support as it persuaded investors to swap Ł7 billion of bonds for new ones known as contingent convertible capital notes, or CoCos, which automatically switch into equity if the bank's capital position weakens to less than 5% of the money out on loan Comments

Plastics recycling firm gets basting from LSE

The London Stock Exchange today publicly censured AIM-listed Environmental Recycling Technologies and said it would have fined it if the company’s finances were not in such a parlous condition Comments

Hester: The worst is over. Business leaders: Oh no it isn’t!

Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester told CBI delegates that the worst was over for the British economy, but the majority of the audience begged to differ Comments

Only half of banks' losses have been revealed, CBI summit told

Global banks have so far only revealed half their losses from the financial crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, told the annual CBI conference in London Comments

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Eurozone recovery beginning to slow, index suggests

The rate of economic recovery on the continent could be slowing, latest figures reveal Comments

‘Lenders ignore rate cuts’

Banks were today accused of profiteering from homeowners during the recession, as it emerged that the average interest charged on variable-rate mortgages is 4.2% higher than the Bank of England’s base rate Comments

Brown and Cameron join beauty pageant to woo business leaders

Britain's three main party leaders today staged a beauty pageant to woo business support ahead of the General Election Comments

Analysis: LSE gets a shrinking feeling as new kids pile on the pressure

If you had suggested, even quite recently, that the London Stock Exchange would one day lose its dominant role as the City’s leading trading platform, everybody would have laughed Comments

Murdoch mulls Microsoft move to charge for content

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has held talks with Microsoft about the publisher being paid revenues by Microsoft’s search engine Bing if it “de-indexes” its news content from arch-rival Google Comments

Scottish & Newcastle offering free-of-tie leases at dormant pubs

Brewing giant Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) is breaking ranks with the industry to offer 19 pubs free of the controversial “beer tie” Comments

Experian rolls out India joint venture

Credit group Experian today announced plans to operate a credit bureau in India, which it will operate through a joint venture with seven local banks Comments

Divis hit as water giants are hung out to dry in Ofwat price review

Water giants Severn Trent and United Utilities are set to be hit so hard by this week’s Ofwat price review that they will have to slash their dividends by a fifth Comments

Heritage sells Uganda stake to ENI halting Genel merger

A bid battle for Heritage Oil could break out after the independent upstream exploration and production company said its proposed merger with Turkey’s Genel Energy was off and it would instead sell its interests in Uganda to Italian major ENI for Ł900 million Comments