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Jitters over Morgan Stanley as US bank fears resurface

30.09.11
Fresh fears about the health of the world's major banks emerge, with City analysts predicting that there will soon need to be another round of fund-raising to shore up balance sheets... more

UBS and JPMorgan still reign supreme in the City's Oscars

08.06.11
UBS and JPMorgan Asset Management take the top prizes again at the City's equivalent of the Oscars... more

Invensys or Investec: City abuzz with talk of Glencore's fall-guy

19.05.11
Who's going to be kicked out of the FTSE 100 to make way for Glencore? ... more

Morgan Stanley slips further behind Goldman Sachs with $91m loss

20.10.10
Morgan Stanley reports a surprising third-quarter loss, suggesting the bank is losing ground in the battle for Wall Street supremacy... more

Heineken cost cuts overcome poor beer sales

25.08.10
Heineken reports a higher than expected rise in first-half net profit after cost cuts help offset lower beer sales in Europe and the US... more

Market Round-Up: Utilities all the rage after EDF’s lucrative sell-off

30.07.10
Utility stocks in demand after EDF's sale of its UK electricity networks arm sparked hopes of renewed appetite for British assets... more

Traders feeling chill after Cable & Wireless blames cuts for profits alert

20.07.10
Market Round-up: The chill of Austerity Britain sweeps across the London market as investors fret about the effects of George Osborne’s axe on UK Plc... more

Goldman Sachs faces £400m payout to halt Abacus probe

28.05.10
Goldman Sachs may be forced to pay out more than £400 million to bring to an end the damaging fraud investigation by the US government, Wall Street analysts estimate... more

Rio Tinto may cut back in Australia over tax blow

06.05.10
Rio Tinto reviews its massive operations in Australia in light of the country’s new 40% tax on mining firms... more

Brokers backing oversold miners to bounce back

25.01.10
Credit Suisse tells investors that fears about the Chinese economy are overdone, as it persuades them that mining stocks have been sold off too heavily... more

Patriotic outrage cannot shut the door left open to foreign predators

19.01.10
In the end, Roger Carr, the Cadbury chairman, had no choice. He may feel satisfied that he persuaded Kraft to raise its offer from 745p to today's 840p but deep down there has to be the realisation that the Americans have got the British chocolate-maker for a song... more

Cairn meets with a gushing reaction on prospect of find

21.12.09
Cairn Energy's investors were handed an early Christmas present - the hope of a glut of black gold next year... more

Cadbury hits back in battle to fend off bid by Kraft

14.12.09
Defenders of corporate Britain hopeful that Cadbury can fend off a £10.3 billion offer from Kraft Foods got a boost when the chocolate maker issued a feisty response to the takeover bid... more

Rose breathing a sigh of relief as M&S comes through worst

30.09.09
Marks & Spencer chairman Sir Stuart Rose gave evidence that he has dragged the retailer through one of the toughest periods in its 125-year history ... more

Broker calling a halt to the Bovis bandwagon in prices ‘downturn’

07.08.09
Signs of life in the housing market have buoyed Bovis Homes of late, but Goldman Sachs reckons that it's now too late to get in on the rally... more

Footsie takes a knock after a letdown from two US banks

17.07.09
Mixed results from US banks Citigroup and Bank of America took the gloss off the markets as the FTSE 100 index struggled to hang on to early gains ... more

Oil guru expects summer price fall

22.06.09
The influential oil and gas analyst who called the recent crude price spike on the back of Chinese stockpiling says the oil price could weaken this summer... more

The sun shines for Thomas Cook despite major shareholder’s woes

09.06.09
Thomas Cook shares enjoyed a day in the sun today despite its controlling shareholder filing for bankruptcy protection ... more

Chinese hoarders 'are causing oil price boom'

26.05.09
The big rally in the oil price in recent weeks is down to Chinese stockpiling, a leading energy industry analyst has claimed ... more

Bounceback for bank shares can’t disguise parlous state of wider economy

28.04.09
Economic Analysis: British banks are preparing to update the market on trade amid signs the worst of the financial crisis could be over... more

...But life is still far from rosy despite the cheeky message

14.04.09
Phew, the banking crisis is over. Some 21 months after it began — a conservative $1 trillion poured down the drain in write-downs, losses and government bail-outs — the world’s banks are back on track again... more

BP rattled as the City gets cold feet on divi prospects

03.03.09
BP today went only halfway to reassuring City investors about its future dividend policy amid fears a cut in the payout to shareholders may be on the way... more

Yahoo's tussle with activist Icahn ends in compromise

21.07.08
The epic battle for control of Yahoo ends in a truce... more


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