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Two houses for me, no jobs for you

06.11.09
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Gatwick to get second runway in £1.5bn sale

21.10.09
Gatwick airport is set for a multi-million pound makeover after it was sold for £1.5 billion ... more

Unilever tipped to spring a surprise with Cadbury bid

16.10.09
Household-brands supremo Unilever could launch a surprise bid for Cadbury, trouncing America’s mighty Kraft and setting it on an ambitious new phase of growth... more

Tories claim victory over Heathrow expansion

12.10.09
Airport operator BAA said it would not submit a planning application for a third runway at Heathrow before the general election... more

Passenger numbers are still dropping says BAA

08.10.09
There is no sign yet of a recovery in the airline industry, latest figures show as BAA report falling numbers with Stansted worst affected ... more

Holiday giants the stars as Footsie stays above 5000

10.09.09
Shares of the UK’s two biggest package holiday operators were enjoying a blue-skies scenario today as they led the market higher. TUI Travel sported a rise of 8.7p to 265.3p while Thomas Cook added 6.7p at 251.7p as steps were being taken to clear a large overhang of stock ... more

City Spy: Cobra boss and a tear-jerking tale

18.08.09
IT’S not often that City Spy is reduced to tears but Lord Bilimoria’s travails after putting his Cobra Beer business into a pre-pack administration (the brewer has been sold to Molson Coors, Bilimoria keeps 49.9% and most of the creditors who are owed £71 million are out of pocket), provoke great waves of sympathy ... more

No takers after Gatwick is forced to put itself on sale

16.07.09
The future of Gatwick has turned from the uncertain to the farcical after the forced sale of London’s second airport was derailed by news that no one wants to buy it ... more

BT a winner as tough talk on pension deficit cheers

17.04.09
BT raced up the FTSE 100 winner’s board today on talk that it is planning an all-out attack on its pensions deficit by issuing a multi-billion-pound bond... more

BP's fans find five reasons to invest in the titan of oil

17.04.09
BP'S board might have come under attack from shareholders yesterday but the titan of oil still has some fans.... more

Banks and miners take heart but oil shares drift

14.04.09
Better-than-expected results overnight from Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs set the tone for trading in London as investors returned from the Easter break... more

Vultures, guns, and a shadow

05.03.09
The big beasts of American business have a knack for turning even the sourest lemons into lemonade... more

Angry MPs want some answers at City grilling

22.01.09
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City Airport owner to bid for Gatwick

19.01.09
Aviation: The owner of City Airport today confirmed that it will lodge a bid for Gatwick ahead of tonight's deadline... more

Footsie tumbles in wake of recession woes on Wall Street

02.12.08
Markets: Shares in London tumble again, sending the FTSE 100 back below the 4000 mark... more

Burnt fingers again for Spurs owner Joe Lewis

21.10.08
Joe Lewis, the man who lost the best part of a billion dollars on buying shares in Bear Stearns as it was about to collapse, owns most of Tottenham Hotspur... more

Fears for future of US giants as crisis spreads

10.10.08
The threat of failure is hanging over American car giant General Motors after a further slump in its shares... more

Buffett’s paper profits shredded

08.10.08
Finance: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has seen the instant paper profits he made on General Electric and Goldman Sachs shredded as the market continues to slide... more

AIG sells stake in City Airport

30.09.08
Transport: Beleaguered insurer American International Group has reached a deal to sell its 50% stake in London City Airport to its partners in the venture... more

Here’s the way to start solving the credit crisis

25.09.08
He really can't resist it, can he? You might think that after more than a decade of introducing economically trivial, crowd pleasing measures as Chancellor, Gordon Brown could kick the habit as Prime Minister... more

Watchdog hits subprime lender with £1.12m fine

25.09.08
Enforcement: The Financial Services Authority, have slapped a £1.12 million fine on one of the country's largest providers of subprime mortgages in a clear message to the industry that it expects it to sharpen up its act... more

Market report: Lloyds TSB on slide as Deutsche Bank says sell

25.09.08
Lloyds TSB may be picking up HBOS, the UK’s biggest mortgage provider, for a song but not everyone in the City believes its shares are a worthwhile investment... more

Who's in the buying queue

20.08.08
Once the investment bankers start the sell-off Gatwick and Stansted airports, there will be no shortage of prospective bidders... more

Bidding war on way as BAA told to sell airports

20.08.08
The £5 billion auction of London's biggest airports unofficially got under way as BAA was told it must sell two out of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted to stop it having a monopoly... more

GE nears sell-off of Japan units

11.07.08
General Electric is in the final stage of talks to sell its Japanese credit-card and housing-loan units to Shinsei Bank as its cost-cuts programme continues... more

GE and Dow mega-deal plans fire up the action

10.07.08
General Electric and Dow Chemical have declared plans for multibillion-dollar deals that defy the credit crunch... more

B&B bidder plans a new lease of life for banking 'zombies'

25.06.08
PROFILE Maverick financier Clive Cowdery wants the troubles of Britain's second-tier lenders to be the catalyst for a new financial heavyweight. He's been here before... more

GE may spin off its washers arm

15.05.08
General Electric may sell off its large-appliances division, which makes fridges and washing machines, after more than 100 years in the industry... more

Buyer is wanted to board the Ark

13.05.08
Oweners of troubled Hammersmith office block seek a buyer, after giving it a £20 million facelift... more

Cool fixer who must engineer BAA out of trouble at T5

16.04.08
Colin Matthews has been keeping his head down over Heathrow, but BAA's chief executive will have to face his critics soon... more

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