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Labour and Tories 'are conspiring over rises to university tuition fees '

09.11.09
Latest: Labour and the Tories accused of a 'conspiracy' to increase tuition fees as ministers order full-scale review of student finance... more

There’s more to business than money

02.11.09
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BP’s Hayward claims oil giant is back on track

27.10.09
Rising production and the most benign hurricane season in recent years has seen BP thrash City estimates and report a 60% surge in profits to $4.7 billion (£2.8 billion) over the summer ... more

Tory MEP and the Kazakhs

01.10.09
What a strange contradiction Tory MEP Struan Stevenson is. On the one hand he has visited Kazakhstan on no fewer than 10 separate occasions to investigate the effects of Soviet-era nuclear explosions on the inhabitants there... ... more

Work on extension 'will start next year'

17.09.09
The Tate intends to start building its giant Bankside Gallery extension next year... more

BP sells wind farms for £57m

17.09.09
BP has taken another step to reduce its investment in wind farms outside the US, with the sale of Indian energy windmills for $95 million... more

$1bn drive to slash costs as oil price hits BP’s profits

28.07.09
BP reported a 53% dive in profits as the global recession dragged down energy prices and demand for oil ... more

Treasury star faces tough balancing act to rebuild failed banks

15.07.09
John Kingman doesn't like the limelight. The chief executive of UK Financial Investments was once a Financial Times journalist, but he almost never gives interviews...... more

Ericsson boss Svanberg is BP's choice for chairman

25.06.09
BP's three-year search for a new chairman came to an end as the British oil giant appointed the Swedish boss of Ericsson, Carl-Henric Svanberg... more

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

Old wounds reopened as US sues BP for Alaskan oil spills

01.04.09
BP is being sued by the US Government over the spillage of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil on the Alaskan arctic tundra in 2006... more

It's BP's mission to fall in love with petroleum again

17.03.09
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BP plunges on hint of freeze in the dividend

03.03.09
Shares in BP were on the slide after the supermajor indicated it may hold this year’s dividend payments at last year’s payout levels... more

How safe is the BP dividend?

26.02.09
Energy analysis: Earlier this month, one excited City analyst was moved to confirm there is now a trinity of certainties in life: in addition to death and taxes, the oil-watcher argued, you can also rely on BP dividends... more

Danger that lurks in the turnaround plan for RBS

23.02.09
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Why the US protecting its own spells global danger

09.02.09
I don't hold any brief for Sir Ronnie Cohen but I well recall sitting with the private-equity veteran and listening to his warning that unless something was done about the widening gap between rich and poor, riots would result... more

Jobs toll set to rise as BP posts a loss for quarter

03.02.09
Energy: Oil giant BP has plunged to its first quarterly loss in seven years, and admitted it is to axe more than the 5000 jobs it previously signalled... more

How Mervyn learned to pitch it right...

22.10.08
Mervyn King once harboured ambitions to be the next Jim Laker: “I was taught to bowl — slow left arm – at Old Town primary school by the headmaster ..."... more

Environment

08.10.08
Once an area ignored by politicians, it is now a key issue with battles such as airport expansion taking centre stage ... more

Mandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords

06.10.08
THE return of Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet for the third time — as Business Secretary — shows rehabilitation is always possible, however unlikely. ... more

Mandelson and Browne reunited in House of Lords

06.10.08
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It’s a bit late for broker to stop coverage of B&B

30.09.08
Shares of failed buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley were suspended at 20p before the start of trading on the stock market, to allow for the transfer of ownership into public hands... more

A retreat from Moscow that may not ease the problems

04.09.08
When crude was hitting its record highs of more than $147 a barrel in early July, BP’s shares were in sharp decline, a fall that has been extended in recent weeks to wipe around £30 billion off the value of Britain’s largest company... more

Deal that highlights oil change

08.08.08
The oil sector came to life this week and it would be no surprise at all to see oil back down below $100 by September... more

Lord Browne firm’s buy-up from Hunting

06.08.08
Ex-BP chief’s private-equity firm bought £626 million of assets from the London-listed energy services group... more

Farewell Prudence, he never even loved you

24.07.08
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Buccaneer building a new Hambro dynasty in the Far East

09.07.08
Peter Hambro carries his family's dynastic urge into new territory with a mix of ready wit and Old Etonian charm... more

Chairmen's pay on rocket fuel - and not just at BP

15.04.08
Fat-cat pay, or executive remuneration as they call it in the posher papers, is so last century... more

Soaring oil spells real trauma

14.03.08
Eighteen months ago when the guys at Goldman Sachs were forecasting that the price of oil would go to $100, it was widely dismissed as nothing more than the bank talking its book... more

Merger plan of the miners is a big deal with a huge downside

13.02.08
What a strange world we live in when every twist and turn in the sale of a minor former building society in Newcastle commands the attention of politicians, bankers and the media, but elsewhere a proposal that will create a monopolistic giant bigger than BP or Shell sails serenely forward with almost no one paying attention... more

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