Frankfurt RSS feed

Analysis: LSE gets a shrinking feeling as new kids pile on the pressure

2009-11-23T08:16:49Z

If you had suggested, even quite recently, that the London Stock Exchange would one day lose its dominant role as the City�s leading trading platform, everybody would have laughed

Brown gives up on Blair and seeks EU consolation prize

2009-11-19T06:45:29Z

Video: Gordon Brown all but gives up on Tony Blair�s hopes of becoming EU President and embarks on 'Plan B' to clinch top economic post for Britain

Colt clients paralysed by technical web problems

2009-09-10T06:27:21Z

Major technical problems at internet service provider Colt Telecom have affected email and web access at a string of major London businesses over the past two days

Blankfein calls for re-think of bonuses

2009-09-09T12:32:11Z

Outsize banker bonuses came under fire from an unlikely source today � the chief executive of Goldman Sachs

Turquoise trading system up for sale

2009-08-18T06:58:20Z

Turquoise, the European share trading system which rivals the London Stock Exchange and was founded by nine investment banks, has been put up for sale

FTSE hits new year high

2009-08-13T08:13:05Z

The FTSE 100 index of leading shares hit its highest level so far this year on hopes that the global recession could be ending more quickly than expected

Banks rally although bad times are round the corner

2009-07-31T08:09:04Z

Banks will be back in the spotlight next week when they report second-quarter profits. But if the pin-stripes in the boardroom were expected to suffer from a touch of nerves, they were not showing it

Europe's battered economy continues headlong decline

2009-05-15T08:37:15Z

The crisis in the German and French economies has deepened in the last three months

How can these sad exiles prefer cash to London?

2009-05-12T08:07:32Z

Those now fleeing our tax rates did much to contribute to our economic woes. Despite this, we must pity them

London's shares step up after the bloodbath

2009-03-03T09:33:00Z

Shares in London ticked slightly higher today as investors paused for breath following the recent carnage on stock markets around the world

Markets slump further after enduring a week to forget

2009-02-20T13:55:49Z

Markets: Shares across Europe slumped as the global recession deepened and New York went into reverse

European recession fears see share prices tumble

2009-01-08T10:11:53Z

Shares across Europe fell today amid further signs the recession in Europe will turn out to be a long, drawn-out affair

Euro parity on cards as pound remains weak

2008-12-30T09:16:05Z

Economy: Sterling remained weak against the euro but, with �1 buying €1.029, was up 0.6 cent since Monday's dive

Airlines slash fares to lowest levels since 1980s

2008-12-23T09:26:27Z

A price war broke out as major airlines slashed fares to their lowest levels since the Eighties

Emergency landing after jet hit by birds

2008-11-10T16:12:43Z

A Ryanair flight made an emergency landing at a Rome airport after hitting a flock of birds, some of which smashed into the engines

Bank bid to claw back bonuses

2008-10-24T09:06:20Z

A German bank is forcing former managers to pay back huge sums of money in bonuses because of poor financial decisions relating to the credit crunch

Markets in nosedive as slump fears take hold

2008-10-22T08:12:42Z

Markets: World stock markets were crashing again as investors were gripped by fears of a deep and prolonged global recession

Freddie Mac shares plunge in Frankfurt

2008-09-08T08:47:47Z

Freddie Mac shares plunged 62.5 per cent on opening in Frankfurt this morning, providing a taste of things to come this afternoon in New York

Wall Street and London rocket after US bailout

2008-09-08T08:18:19Z

Finance: Global stock markets have roared ahead in reaction to the US bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Who's in the buying queue

2008-08-20T12:09:10Z

Once the investment bankers start the sell-off Gatwick and Stansted airports, there will be no shortage of prospective bidders

Greatfleet sale 'saves 40 jobs'

2008-07-31T07:38:19Z

Administrators have sold city headhunting firm to job search company QPS, saving 40 jobs

No end yet to crisis, says Deutsche chief

2008-06-04T15:15:41Z

Co-head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank said it is too early to call end of financial crisis

BA's European rivals cash in after T5 fiasco

2008-05-19T09:32:41Z

Thousands of business class travellers shunned British Airways and Heathrow following the Terminal 5 fiasco, figures obtained by the Evening Standard show

Angry DT investors in mass class action

2008-04-07T09:49:13Z

The largest class-action lawsuit in German history is under way

Cranach the Crude

2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

A new show at the Royal Academy celebrates a small German painter with a big reputation who remained parochial and primitive to the last.

Monkeys, cowboys and slaves

2008-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Deutsche B�rse Photography Prize is an exhilarating exhibition, a series of presentations of human survival in its many guises.

Confronting a genocide

2007-10-23T10:43:41Z

Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide.

Little Masters and Misses

2007-08-03T14:18:26Z

In attempting to trace the evolution of children's portraiture from the 17th to the 19th century the German curated exhibtion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery falls short.

Probe into recovery of Tate's stolen paintings

2006-11-02T12:31:30Z

Police in Germany have launched an investigation into how the Tate recovered two stolen Turner paintings.

Genius on a small scale

2006-09-04T07:58:11Z

Adam Elsheimer painted very small pictures and died when he was 32 but, as the new exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery will show, his influence was felt throughout Europe.