Investors in AstraZeneca were left with a bitter pill to swallow amid talk that a lack of innovation at the drug-maker could prompt it to shrink and even be taken over... more
Shares in BP rise 5% as the oil major receives a $4 billion (£2.5 billion) settlement from one of its partners in the Gulf of Mexico to help pay for last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 men... more
BP is given the green light to press ahead with a new £4.5 billion exploration project west of the Shetland Islands, taking the oil major's development work in the North Sea to the highest level in its history... more
Frothy bid chatter meant investors were raising a pint to SABMiller today following rumours suggesting the Grolsch brewer could be in line for a mega-merger... more
Weeks after Kremlin officials crushed BP's hopes of a £10 billion exploration tie-up, David Cameron calls for stronger business ties between Britain and Russia... more
"Guess the suitor" seems to be the top game among traders this week. Yesterday, Regus rocketed on speculation of interest from an unknown party, and today it was the turn of Logica.... more
BP reacted with fury today after Russian bailiffs raided its Moscow offices, hours after Kremlin officials crushed the British oil major's hopes of a tie-up by signing an exploration pact with rival ExxonMobil... more
Royal Dutch Shell pile more pressure on struggling rival BP as it unveils a massive 77% surge in profit to $8 billion (£4.9 billion) during the three months to July... more
BP shares fall as the oil major, which is still suffering the after-effects of the Gulf
of Mexico disaster and flailing around for a new strategy, misses second-quarter profit expectations... more
BP chief executive Bob Dudley is facing growing pressure to consider a radical break-up of the troubled oil giant, whose earnings are set to lag behind rivals... more
Think of the fortune they must have spent on risk control at News International down the years and look at the mess the company is in now. It is hard to believe they got value for money... more
The shrinks say it takes seven years for humans to forget a major shock or loss and move on. In the City, that's traditionally meant it takes seven years for investors forget the really dumb stuff they did that led to the last crash... more
BP reports yet another pipeline leak at its Alaskan oilfields, frustrating the oil giant's attempts to rebuild its reputation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill... more
Will BP break itself up? That was the debate among analysts today after US crude titan ConocoPhillips decided to divide itself in two, essentially spinning off its refining assets... more
BP today fires the starting gun on one of the biggest investments in the North Sea in the past decade, despite protests from the industry over George Osborne's tax grab in the last Budget
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If the Queen had not abolished the practice in 1958, today would have been the start of the summer season with three, high-profile debutantes coming out on the London market... more
Premier Oil says it will pay BP up to $110 million (£68.1 million) to boost its stake in the Wytch Farm fields in Dorset - the biggest on-shore oil site in western Europe... more
Tony Hayward enjoys a phoenix-like recovery in the City as Vallares, the oil investment vehicle he co-founded with financier Nat Rothschild, closes its fundraising two days early after raising £1.35 billion, a third more expected... more
BP is on collision course with its Russian partners as the firm readies $15 billion (£9.1 billion) plans to sell half its stake in the TNK-BP joint venture to state-owned behemoth Rosneft... more
He may be the president of the most powerful nation in the world, but his car still needs filling up with petrol - 'The Beast' stops for fuel in London... more
It's impossible for one institution to dominate London. The place is just too big. How different to, say, Dundee, home of marmalade and The Beano, and an agreeable enough town if you don't mind the Scottish weather. Finances there are dominated by the auld Alliance Trust. Such dominance has bred complacency... more
Has the software sector ever seemed so exciting? Today, whispers of a possible approach for Misys - a company whose ambition is "to be the world's best application software and services company" (stop yawning) - pushed the shares up 6.6p to 363.5p... more
BP is left humiliated as its $16 billion Arctic tie-up with Rosneft fails, leaving the strategy new boss Bob Dudley hoped would help it recover from the Gulf of Mexico disaster in tatters... more
Talks between BP and its billionaire Russian partner AAR go down to the wire as the British oil giant desperately tries to seal a deal that would allow it to press ahead with its $16 billion Arctic tie-up with the Kremlin... more
BP chief executive Bob Dudley declares he is confident its Russian row would be resolved despite no sign of a deal ahead of key deadline next week... more
A still-rising bill for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, lower production after selling off assets to help pay for it and a hit from the Budget's tax grab on North Sea oil profits saw BP's profits fall 2% in the first three months of the year... 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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