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City Spy: Bailed-out RBS is flying with Yanks

22.06.09
Royal Bank of Scotland has said a big “thank you” to the British taxpayer with the bailed-out bank’s latest cost-cutting exercise: it has scrapped its deal with British Airways, and has now instructed staff to fly American Airlines... more

Arsenal oligarch logs into Facebook

29.05.09
Although the paying punters want nothing to do with him, controversial businessman Alisher Usmanov - one of Russia's few remaining billionaires - owns 25% of Arsenal's shares ... more

BP in 'Alan Sugar style' hunt for Russian head

27.05.09
BP and its Russian partners at the BP-TNK joint venture launched a chief executive selection process straight out of Sir Alan Sugar's TV series The Apprentice... more

Mandelson is right to raise the alarm on crisis tactics

18.02.09
It is a recurring foible of politicians that they are far more candid in the speeches they make overseas than they ever seem to be in the set pieces they deliver at home... more

Intrigue over O’Reilly’s plans Down Under

13.11.08
Tongues are wagging in Australia about the resignation of Brendan Hopkins from the board of Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s Independent & News Media, just days after he signed a three-year extension to his contract as chief executive of the Independent’s APN News & Media subsidiary Down Under... more

Brown’s buried pledge to end negative equity

30.10.08
With all their promises of “no return to boom and bust” and commitments to “long-term economic strength and stability based on an unshakeable commitment to prudent monetary and fiscal rules”, Gordon Brown’s past Budget speeches as Chancellor make interesting reading... more

Sue Nye is in spotlight over Peston scoops

03.10.08
BBC Business editor Robert Peston has been leading the pack with his stories on the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley, the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger and the run on Northern Rock. But where does he get his information?... more

Sore Dudley is set to turn his back on BP

05.09.08
What now for Robert Dudley, the ousted chief executive of BP’s Russian venture? ... more

BP Russia chief to go in bid to settle row

04.09.08
Energy: An end could be in sight to the fractious and potentially highly damaging dispute over BP’s huge interests in Russia — but at the cost of the departure of the chief executive at its Russian joint venture... more

Growth pledge Darling would like to forget

02.09.08
While Alistair Darling’s interview for The Guardian was candid about the economy, his Budget speech in March — only four months ago, let us not forget — was decidedly less so... more

Russians in new bid to gain upper hand over BP venture

24.06.08
BP could lose joint control of the main operating company in its giant TNK-BP venture after dissident Russian shareholding oligarchs opened up their latest offensive to attack the British oil major's interests in the country... more

Thunder Horse up and running

17.06.08
State-of-the-art oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico has finally gone into production for BP... more

Oligarchs seek a BP stake swap to settle Russian row

16.06.08
Amid allegations of Kremlin-inspired spying and attempted land grabs, the future of TNK-BP is in the balance... more

Talks break down over BP's Russian joint venture

11.06.08
BP accused partners - a group of Russian billionaires - of attempting to stage boardroom coup ... more

Threats, tax probes, and three men holding BP's fate in Russia

09.06.08
Pressure may be leading up to Russian partners preparing to sell their stake in BP business... more

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