Blue-chip private-equity house Candover Partners became the first high-profile victim of the credit crisis today, terminating a €3 billion (£2.7 billion) buyout fund it launched last year
Read full article...For a 20th century punctuated by truly bloody global conflicts, the battle for the Falkland Islands in 1982 is a historical peculiarity.
Trains and buses group Go-Ahead has finally wrung the neck of the turkey in its group portfolio, its terminally loss-making airports handling business
Salamander Energy, the London-based explorer which is drilling holes all over South-east Asia, is teaming with big Australian group Origin Energy to become a major player in the Thai power market
The recycling revolution is coming to a London borough near you soon
The Stock Exchange in London breathed a sigh of relief as oil-rich Abu Dhabi stepped in to prevent neighbouring Arab emirate Dubai going to the wall
American retailers were breathing a sigh of relief after steady business was reported over the Thanksgiving long weekend
Arab stock markets crashed as fears spread to Europe that Dubai’s financial crisis could infect its rich and powerful neighbour Abu Dhabi and could yet hammer lending to stricken Dubai World
The £2.3 billion Dubai takeover of London-listed Dragon Oil could be among the fall outs from the financial crisis in the Arab emirate
An armada of dissident National Express shareholders was notable by its absence as the rights issue rebellion orchestrated by the train and coach group’s Spanish deputy chairman and major shareholder failed to materialise
The City is pouring money into the Falklands in two fundraisers, as the wind-swept British islands in the South Atlantic are targeted as one of the last great unconquered oil and gas frontiers
Retail sales are growing at their fastest pace in two years, latest statistics reveal
Energy analysis: National Grid, Centrica and SSE stand as beacons of British independence. Should shares of these Three Lions be a candidate for every desktop investor's portfolio?
National Express has received a second massive body blow, with the loss of its lucrative train franchise out of Liverpool Street to Essex and East Anglia
OFWAT has stepped back from its declaration of war on high-charging water companies by reining in its plans to slash household bills
The prawn sandwich is wilting and the champagne has not even made it on ice as big spending big business slashes the corporate hospitality bill
The Office of Fair Trading’s unprecedented £130 million fines on price-fixing builders was in chaos today after a fifth of them lodged appeals
The rate of economic recovery on the continent could be slowing, latest figures reveal
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
Businesses slowing down or going bust altogether is holding back revenues at Northumbrian Water Group
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