Market Round-up: Is Bowleven the next Tullow Oil? Questions on investors’ lips send shares in the Cameroon-focused oil explorer rocketing 16½p to 191p... more
State-run Korea National Oil Corp has made a £1.5 billion takeover approach to Britain's Dana Petroleum, a source said, as the firm battles for energy resources with China... more
Will a bidding war break out for Dana Petroleum?
Shares in the FTSE 250 oil explorer surged 243p to 1420p today as investors bet its new suitor could be the first of many to come knocking... more
The Deal is back. Kraft’s unsolicited £10 billion bid for Cadbury. The merger of T-Mobile and Orange to form Britain’s largest mobile phone operator. Investment bankers are slavering after 18 months of what former senior Tory Alan Duncan might term “living on rations”
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Sell into the rally. That is the advice coming out of Morgan Stanley, which today advised clients not to become too bullish because of the recent recovery in global equities
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Stock market investors might have wished for a better start to the second half of the year. As it is they've taken something of a battering, with the prospect of further volatility to come ... more
Michael O'Leary, if no one else, will now be able to afford to go to the loo on his own Ryanair planes - millions of times over, in fact - after today announcing five million shares in his airline ... more
As the eurozone was expected to officially slide into recession, Gordon Brown heads to Washington for yet another conference about the worsening global economic crisis... more
When Ratan Tata's Indian steel behemoth won the £6 billion auction of Corus, it began what India's newspapers quickly began calling the Great Indian Takeaway
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London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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