The gossips were busy stoking up bid talk around Coal of Africa again today, as Swiss giant Xstrata became the latest name to be linked with a swoop for the AIM-listed miner... more
As Google blew out the candles on its birthday cake, Imagination Technologies was also celebrating, thanks to hopes the chip designer is about to get a present from the US giant... more
Feature: London 2012 will be a new experience for one volunteer. Urvasi Naidu, who has been a volunteer for every Olympics since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, always carries some masking tape in her handbag... more
The big rumour in the City today was that Tiffany & Co - the US jeweller as famous for its little blue boxes as the sparkling gems inside - is in the sights of Cartier owner Richemont... more
What happens when the world's fifth richest man, his glamorous daughter-in-law and an Israeli bombshell get their hands on an ailing fashion house?... more
Tycoon Lakshmi Mittal pays himself a $478 million dividend at ArcelorMittal, despite his steel-making empire sliding to a $780 million net loss in the last quarter of 2010... more
The Beverly Hills site bought by Christian Candy’s CPC Group for $500 million three years ago has gone under the hammer - but the Candy brothers insist it won't affect One Hyde Park... more
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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