Glencore, the world's biggest commodities trader, is expected to sign a deal within days to give an $800-$900 million loan to Indonesia's Bakrie Group to help it refinance its debt, sources have said... more
"Guess the suitor" seems to be the top game among traders this week. Yesterday, Regus rocketed on speculation of interest from an unknown party, and today it was the turn of Logica.... more
Glencore confirms the worst-kept rumour in the mining industry as it launched its biggest takeover bid since its controversial stock-market flotation in May... more
Glencore's top brass are $125 million (£76 million) richer as results from the secretive commodities trader, following its record-breaking $61 billion May float, trigger huge dividend payouts... more
Glencore's troubled week takes another turn for the worse as the shares again plunge more than 4% to as low as 452.3p as two broking firms cut their target prices... more
Trading giant Glencore struggles to allay fears about the volatility of commodity prices and the impact on its business model despite a 47% surge in first-quarter profits... more
Those betting on big oil and gas finds for Sterling Energy and Faroe Petroleum were wincing today, as a double dose of disappointment left the prospectors the City's worse performers by a comfortable margin... more
While our pay cheques shrink, corporate giants are hightailing it to tax havens. Nick Curtis travels to the Swiss lakeside town where Boots, Glencore and nearly 30,000 other businesses are now based, to ask why they won't pay tax in Britain ... more
An old-school investment banker once told me that, in his more reflective moments, he did worry that some of his activities amounted to little more than a tax on the savings classes - his prosperity, his bonus, his bank's profits were all paid for out of people's savings. He worried that he did not create wealth; he simply transferred wealth from someone else's pocket to his own... more
Is the commodities correction over? As unconditional trading kicked off in commodities giant Glencore's shares today, Goldman Sachs - the bank which saw the recent slump in the cost of metals and oil in its crystal ball - had some welcome advice: investors should again be long in commodities... more
One thing we should have learned from the financial crash is that modern banks are too complicated for even their own boards to understand all that goes on within them... more
Glencore gets its controversial stock market flotation away, a mammoth undertaking that will open the commodities giant to a level of scrutiny it has thus far managed to avoid... more
Is the phone-hacking fallout about to get a whole lot worse for News International? Rumours abound that US stars who suspect their voicemails may have been accessed are readying to launch an offensive... more
Perhaps it is because I remember all too clearly the Eighties saga surrounding Marc Rich - whose business formed the nucleus of the trading activities of what is now Glencore - that I have been unable to share in the general enthusiasm for the mining giant and what is about to become one of the largest stock-market flotations seen in Europe... more
Glencore takes a step closer to fulfilling its dream of bidding for mining giant Xstrata as bankers and brokers report huge demand for the shares to be floated just one day after the firm unveiled its prospectus... more
Global commodities trading titan Glencore announces the pricing of its long-awaited stock market flotation at between 480 and 580 pence per share, valuing the company at $60 billion... more
Commodity trading giant Glencore is finalising the proposed share price range and prospectus for what is set to be London's biggest stock-market flotation... more
Top law firms Clifford Chance and Linklaters emerge as the latest City heavyweights set to cash in on the stock market float of $60 billion commodities giant Glencore... more
Tom Wilson, an equities sales trader at Numis Securities, is the toast of his stockbroking firm after he dramatically saved the life of a man who jumped into the Thames - apparently with the intention of committing suicide... more
Commodities trading giant Glencore kicks off one of London's biggest-ever stock market launches with plans to raise up to $11 billion, creating hundreds of paper millionaires at the business... more
Glencore, the commodities trading giant founded by controversial US tycoon Marc Rich, whets the appetites of investors who are hoping it will join the stockmarket with a strong results statement... more
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