Peter Levine, the oil tycoon who made at least £120 million in the sale of Imperial Energy to the Indians last year, has emerged as the largest shareholder in minnow Meridian Petroleum ... 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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Energy analysis: The oil price tide has never gone out so far and so fast. Oil and gas exploration stocks have sunk. And the hedge fund sharks who fuelled the sector have lost their teeth.... more
House prices continued falling last month, piling on the gloom for the big UK builders. The value of the average home fell 1.9% to £161,883, stretching the annual rate of loss to 12.2%... more
British Gas operator Centrica was one of the biggest casualties among the top 100 companies, falling 17½p to 234¾p as brokers set about placing the rump of its recent £2.2 billion rights issue, worth almost £279 million... more
Shares of failed buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley were suspended at 20p before the start of trading on the stock market, to allow for the transfer of ownership into public hands... more
Analysis: Roughneck has acquired the sort of reputation at the racier end of the oil and gas industry that is enjoyed by Guido Fawkes, the notorious Westminster blogger... 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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Shares in Imperial Energy rocketed for the second day running after the company revealed it is in takeover talks at a much higher price than the market expected... more
Shareholders were licking their lips over a raft of possible takeover action as actual and rumoured deals totalling almost £12 billion hit dealers' screens... more
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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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