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Oh, it’s the Shane story at Lloyds...

05.11.09
On BBC news, Lloyds Banking Group’s in-house PR Shane O’Riordain says: “Lloyds is a strong, well-capitalised bank.” ... more

Mittal profits from steel recovery

28.10.09
Britain’s richest man, Lakshmi Mittal, today said his ArcelorMittal steel giant returned to profit in the third quarter of the year after three straight quarterly losses ... more

Mittal: West must cut costs to compete with China

28.09.09
Western companies will have to cut costs and improve productivity if they are to compete with rivals from emerging markets, the boss of the world’s biggest steel producer warned... more

Museum show is monument to Aztec ruler

14.09.09
A 500-year-old monument that has never been seen outside Mexico is the centrepiece of the British Museum's main autumn show... more

More losses racked up at ArcelorMittal as sales fall

29.07.09
ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel firm, posted a loss of $792 million (£482 million), its third quarterly loss in a row, after sales in the three months to June tanked to less than half those from the same period last year ... more

Britain's richest man Lakshmi Mittal targeted by protesters

12.05.09
Riot police were called in to protect Britain’s richest man, Lakshmi Mittal, after workers crowded outside the headquarters of his steel giant ArcelorMittal... more

Behind the mask of last emperor of the Aztecs

07.04.09
Moctezuma II is known in the West as a tragic ruler who lost his empire to the Spanish conquistadors, but an exhibition at the British Museum might change people's minds... more

IT firm Satyam’s £1bn fraud ‘India’s Enron’

08.01.09
Scandal: European customers of India’s Satyam, including London-listed news giant Thomson Reuters, are struggling to work out how the potential collapse of fraud-hit Indian IT Services giant Satyam would affect their operations... more

Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has been revisiting his inside story of investment banking in the 1980s

24.11.08
Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has been revisiting his inside story of the "Big Swinging Dicks" of investment banking in the 1980s... more

Saving banks the Lloyd's way

07.11.08
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of these extraordinary times is the pace of the adjustment. Redrow, the builder, this week announced that its year-on-year house sales have fallen by 45%, while figures for the housing market yesterday revealed that prices declined by 15% in the year to October.... more

A bit of a flop as Obama Bounce proves elusive

05.11.08
It was not so much an Obama Bounce as an Obama Flop in London today. City investors appeared completely underwhelmed by Barack Obama's historic Presidential victory in the US, with share prices showing big losses as trading got under way... more

Now Brown is haunted by 'boom and bust'

27.10.08
Gordon Brown has always been good at hocus-pocus when it came to growth numbers... more

London tycoons lose billions in meltdown

09.10.08
The financial meltdown has cost London's tycoons billions and their losses will have a huge impact on the city's economy... more

Forget Footsie – what about the footie?

08.10.08
While bank shares plummet, the fortunes of some football clubs also give cause for alarm... more

Finance

08.10.08
Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

Health

08.10.08
It’s an issue that can cloud the cheering fact that London is home to some of the most brilliant health care specialists in the world, leaders in their fields. ... more

Big business in India frets as political climate is turning sour

15.09.08
Analysis: UK-based industrialists Lakshmi Mittal, Anil Agarwal and Lord Swraj Paul have huge projects at risk in India because of land acquisitions issues... more

BG Group faces fight for Aussie fuel giant

24.07.08
The battle to secure worldwide gas resources could see Britain's BG Group find itself in a bruising multibillion pound bidding war with the Chinese for the coal-gas assets of Australia's Origin Energy... more

Mittal may join the fight for Rio Tinto

30.06.08
Speculation is mounting that Lakshmi Mittal is to join the battle for mining group Rio Tinto, currently the target of a hostile £80 billion bid by rival BHP Billiton... more

Steel tycoon buys third property on Billionaire's Row

23.06.08
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man and a prominent Labour Party donor, has bought his third property in London's most expensive street for £70 million... more

Mittal's bailout bid for brother

22.05.08
Lakshmi Mittal has bailed out his younger brother Pramod's ailing Bulgarian plant, Kremikovtzi Steel... more

Lakshmi Mittal in £216m Aussie coal tilt

21.05.08
Lakshmi Mittal has taken a 14.9% stake worth £216 million in Australia's Macarthur Coal... more

BHP is boosted by China buzz

09.04.08
BHP Billiton shares rise in Australia on reports that China is to become a major shareholder... more

Mittals' £15m gift to Great Ormond Street is a record

09.04.08
The son of Britain's wealthiest man has donated £15 million to Great Ormond Street hospital... more

Hard man who stands to lose £64m on massive Rock gamble

20.02.08
Monaco-based multimillionaire Jon Wood is an unlikely champion of the dispossessed - and even allies in the fight against nationalisation seem wary of him ... more

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