Man Group - the world's largest listed hedge fund manager - slumps another 5%, leaving it more than 36% lower than before it revealed a jump in clients pulling out their cash... more
Colombia distils the best of South America - and with the help of a good guidebook and advice from other travellers, you're very likely to stay safe... more
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic confirms it has called in advisers to conduct a strategic review, which analysts predicted could see the tycoon surrender control of the business... more
British Airways overcomes the last hurdle in its attempt to launch a transatlantic tie-up with fellow carriers American Airlines and Iberia, more than a decade after the deal was first mooted... more
Market Round-up: Smith & Nephew is on its sickbed as talk of a large placing of shares and sluggish sales from a rival weighs on the artificial hip maker... more
British Airways moves a step closer to its £5 billion merger with Spain’s Iberia after winning approval from the European Union’s competition regulator... more
With strikes, snow and now worries over its alliance with American Airlines, British Airways boss Willie Walsh faces a bleak Christmas and a distinctly unhappy new year... more
British Airways’ long-suffering passengers may be livid over cabin crews’ threat to strike this month, but Citigroup reckons there could be a bright side to the industrial action, for investors at least... more
The three-way alliance between British Airways, American Airlines and Spain’s Iberia is facing the kind of delay that passengers may find familiar ... more
Hopes for a three-way British Airways, American Airlines, Iberia joint venture were up in the air after European Commission officials said they believe the deal could be anti-competitive ... more
Stand by for take off at British Airways was the advice Goldman Sachs gave to clients as it added the shares to its influential Conviction Buy list... more
Royal Bank of Scotland has said a big “thank you” to the British taxpayer with the bailed-out bank’s latest cost-cutting exercise: it has scrapped its deal with British Airways, and has now instructed staff to fly American Airlines... more
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic posted a near-doubling of pre-tax profits to £68.4 million, up from £34.8 million the year before, just days after British Airways totted up losses of £401 million ... more
European anti-monopoly authorities today launched a probe into British Airways' planned tie-up with American Airlines and Spanish carrier Iberia... more
British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has signed his controversial tie-up with American Airlines and declared he was convinced monopoly regulators would give it the green light... more
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