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A new name in the frame as BP struggles to fill the top job

15.06.09
Investors might begin to wonder whether it has become the most poisoned chalice in British business: the chairmanship of BP, the job that apparently nobody wants... more

Rio Tinto ditches Chinalco in favour of share issue

05.06.09
Rio Tinto was forced into a giveaway corporate fundraising after the collapse of its highly controversial $19.5 billion (£12.2 billion) deal with the Chinese ... more

When Labour is in power, stock markets fall

05.05.09
Former Warburgs director John Littlewood is pamphleteering for the Right-leaning Centre for Policy Studies. His research shows the London stock market has fallen 26% since Labour came into power in 1997 ... more

Let’s see how many days these superchairs clock up

09.04.09
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Pay bonanza of the City's part-time string-pullers

07.04.09
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Former RBS head McKillop to step down from BP board

01.04.09
Sir Tom McKillop has quit his £95,000 job working a handful of days a year as a non-executive director at BP... more

New man in the Rio chair after China rift walkout

17.03.09
Rio Tinto has made a second stab at appointing a new chairman, promoting cigarette man Jan du Plessis to the £1 million-a-year role... more

Danger that lurks in the turnaround plan for RBS

23.02.09
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Rio may offer notes to all shareholders

23.02.09
Mining: Debt-laden miner Rio Tinto may try to persuade irate shareholders to back a $19.5 billion tie-up with Chinalco by offering them bonds on the same terms as the Chinese company... more

Rio may offer notes to all shareholders

23.02.09
Mining: Debt-laden miner Rio Tinto may try to persuade irate shareholders to back a $19.5 billion tie-up with Chinalco by offering them bonds on the same terms as the Chinese company... more

Still time for Rio to dig its way out of this spoil heap

19.02.09
Something has gone terribly wrong at Rio Tinto. The chart of the share price looks like a spoil mountain outside one of its mines, and it has achieved the impressive feat of alienating its biggest shareholders by not asking them for money. It's now on the brink of a blunder that threatens its whole future. ... more

Rio Tinto bids to head off China deal anger

16.02.09
Mining:Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese postponed a planned trip to Australia as he attempted to placate London shareholders furious at his proposed sale of up to 18% of the company to the Chinese ... more

Rio Tinto's fundraising deal with Chinalco sparks fury

12.02.09
Mining: The Chinese government has been handed a seat at the mining industry's top table by a desperate Rio Tinto which was forced to sell prized assets to state-owned Chinalco in a exchange for an injection of nearly $20 billion cash... more

Rio's next chairman quits after board row

09.02.09
Rio Tinto was left hunting for a new chairman after the man it had lined up for the job suddenly quit the board following a bust-up with fellow directors... more

Craven gives the Panel a well-deserved beating

05.02.09
Sir John Craven is the man who capped a long, distinguished City career by taking on the poisoned chalice marked Lonrho, drinking the contents — and surviving... more

Rio Tinto feels pain of Chinese steel slump

15.01.09
Energy: The uphill battle facing Jim Leng, the new chairman of Rio Tinto, has been underlined with the mining giant reporting one of its biggest-ever quarterly falls in iron-ore production... more

Sticky Brown fingers are all over this mess

27.11.08
Comment: Of all the ways to cut taxes by £12 billion, the nibble off the VAT bill is the least effective way to dig us out of our financial hole... more

With the Rio wedding off, BP is free to hire its new chairman

26.11.08
Profile: After four decades at Shell, Paul Skinner swapped refining for mining. Now his sharp brain and calmness under fire could put him right at the top of the oil business... more

Sell-off pressure on Rio after BHP pulls bid plug

26.11.08
Mining: Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto is under pressure to instigate a fire-sale of assets to service massive debt... more

Rio pledges to tackle its $45 billion mountain of borrowing

24.04.08
Mining giant Rio Tinto pledges to reduce its borrowing over the next two years... more

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