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Warning given over British banks moving their headquarters abroad if UK government-appointed Commission on Banking were to decide that big groups should be broken up

Hewlett-Packard won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par after Dell said on Thursday it would not raise its offer and was ending talks

Royal Bank of Scotland is axing another 3,500 jobs, taking to almost 27,000 the number of staff cut since Stephen Hester took over as chief executive of the troubled UK bank

Canada?s Goldcorp has launched a C$3.6bn (US$3.4bn) cash-and-stock takeover offer for Andean Resources, trumping a C$3.4bn bid made public only hours earlier by Eldorado Gold, another Canadian miner.

Leading UK and continental European companies eschewing banks from Spain, Italy and even Germany because they do not believe the Europe-wide assessments gave a true picture of their financial health

Blackstone and Warburg Pincus are studying taking the oil exploration company public as an alternative to selling the company after a $4bn deal with ExxonMobil collapsed

Guaranteed bonuses accounted for about 5% of the bonuses paid out for 2009 at 37 leading financial companies surveyed by the Institute of International Finance

Brazil?s national oil company is due to release details of the transaction, which would help fund an ambitious $224bn capital expenditure plan for 2010 to 2014

The singer and campaigner for aid to the continent is seeking to raise money from institutional investors for a private equity venture on the continent

Avis Budget has raised the cash portion of its hostile bid for Dollar Thrifty, intensifying its onslaught against an agreed offer by Hertz for the Oklahoma-based car-rental operator

Service sector activity grew at the weakest pace in 16 months in August, heightening fears that the economy is beginning to stall

The oil group said the costs associated with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have risen by $2bn in the last month to $8bn and that it expected the relief well currently under construction to be completed by mid-September

European and Asian shares are slightly higher as investors are cheered by positive economic data from the US and a third straight session of gains on Wall Street

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports

Foreign companies are losing market share in China across a broad range of industries because of discriminatory treatment by the government and regulators, according to the European Chamber of Commerce in China

Hewlett-Packard won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par after Dell said on Thursday it would not raise its offer and was ending talks

Warning given over British banks moving their headquarters abroad if UK government-appointed Commission on Banking were to decide that big groups should be broken up

The European Union reached a long-awaited agreement on reform of financial supervision, paving the way for the establishment of three pan-EU watchdogs to oversee controls on banks and insurers in the region from next year

The singer and campaigner for aid to the continent is seeking to raise money from institutional investors for a private equity venture on the continent

Leading UK and continental European companies eschewing banks from Spain, Italy and even Germany because they do not believe the Europe-wide assessments gave a true picture of their financial health

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports

Fears are mounting that Pakistan?s flood crisis ? so far confined largely to rural areas ? will begin to take its toll on the country?s formal economy, undermining the country?s previously strong banking sector

Service sector activity grew at the weakest pace in 16 months in August, heightening fears that the economy is beginning to stall

Foreign companies are losing market share in China across a broad range of industries because of discriminatory treatment by the government and regulators, according to the European Chamber of Commerce in China

The Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to negotiate a ?framework? for peace talks and to hold a second direct meeting in two weeks? time

The European Central Bank forecast that the eurozone would expand this year and in 2011 much more strongly than previously expected, ruling out a double dip back into recession

An oil platform 80 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, sparking a rapid search and rescue helicopter response that recovered 13 people, the US Coast Guard said

Wall Street is backing the right-hand man of Elliot Spitzer, its previous scourge, in the race for one of the most powerful financial law enforcement jobs in the US, the New York attorney-general, according to new analysis of campaign contributions

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, expressed regret for not being ?more straightforward? with Congress in 2008 when he avoided saying that the central bank had no means to save Lehman Brothers

The Sleipner platform is something of a holy site for believers in carbon capture and storage, a promising but controversial technology in the fight against climate change

European and Asian shares are slightly higher as investors are cheered by positive economic data from the US and a third straight session of gains on Wall Street

The outbreak of bid speculation on the London equities market helps London shares stay positive, while the September rally faces a stern test from US data

Hopes that the trend for stronger US data would continue into August?s closely-watched jobs report help Asian shares make progress, with a weaker yen helping Japanese exporters

As high-frequency trading comes to dominate daily activity in securities worldwide, regulators and traditional investors alike fear some of the interlopers may bring dangerous distortions

Stimulus has been necessary but US policymakers and investors might do well to heed the Takahashi tale

Leading UK and continental European companies eschewing banks from Spain, Italy and even Germany because they do not believe the Europe-wide assessments gave a true picture of their financial health

US stocks were almost flat in early trading after jobless figures and same store sales added to continuing deal activity, including Hewlett-Packard upping its bid in the battle for 3Par

Credit ratings on almost 900 municipal bonds, or $50bn to $55bn of debt, could be cut by up to three notches by Moody?s Investors Service

Supply problems threaten higher clothing prices for consumers

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports

The core strategic challenge facing centre-left politicians just about everywhere is that people want to be supported by the state, but will rebel if they fear suffocation, writes Philip Stephens

Financial commentators should not denounce securitisation without acknowledging the point that is obvious to management commentators: bureaucratic risk controls are also flawed, writes Sebastian Mallaby

Creating a powerful new anti-corruption commission could be like tossing a gun into the middle of the brawl, writes Paul Romer

The market is screaming its lack of concern about UK fiscal credibility. Government debt is long-term and denominated in the domestic currency. We are terrified of a confidence bogey who is asleep, writes Martin Wolf

Critics argue the freeze has been only partially applied. But the 10-month moratorium has gone way beyond terms ever agreed by an Israeli government, left or right, writes Ron Prosor

Tempting as it is to single out Wall Street and to narrow a tax loophole widely employed on Wall Street, it is not justified, writes John Gapper

Tony Blair is a man of extraordinary courage and one feels that courage and humanity on the pages of this book. But is he also a man of judgment and execution? asks Anthony Seldon

The Sarrazin case will have a crucial bearing on who takes over as ECB president when Jean-Claude Trichet retires at the end of October 2011, writes David Marsh

In two decades Japan has had no fewer than 14 prime ministers. The public is entitled to ask: ?Why on earth would we want these idiots in charge??, writes David Pilling

The idea that the policies adopted in the last few months of the Bush administration and the first months of this one were far better than nothing is weirdly controversial in the US, writes Martin Wolf

Guaranteed bonuses accounted for about 5% of the bonuses paid out for 2009 at 37 leading financial companies surveyed by the Institute of International Finance

Lehman Brothers, the bankrupt investment bank, said it intends to use some of its cash to recapitalise two subsidiary banks to prepare them for sale

JPMorgan Chase is to close the commodity unit that trades with the bank's own money as Wall Street moves to comply with new US financial services rules banning proprietary trading

MF Global Holdings is to make a push into money management and investment banking, in an effort to capitalise on the derivatives brokerage's strength in commodities markets

Goldman Sachs is embroiled in a lawsuit over whether Natixis is able to terminate protection purchased by the US investment bank in relation to three credit derivative transactions

Sadeq Sayeed, one of the architects of Nomura's acquisition of Lehman Brothers' European and Asian operations, receives the 'golden handshake' after leaving the bank

The group says the losses, which come as investment banks adjust to more testing trading conditions, would cover both back office administrative functions and front office activities

The government has taken a further step towards potential privatisation of the Royal Mail by hiring UBS to advise it about the group's future

News of the cuts is likely to alarm the City as well as Wall Street, where BarCap has a sizeable presence following its acquisition of the US operations of Lehman Brothers at the height of the financial crisis

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley each suffered at least 10 days of trading losses in the second quarter, underlining how turbulent markets have cast a pall on Wall Street since April

John Varley, chief executive, said Barclays' so-called universal model had proved its resilience and profitability through the financial crisis

BarCap contributed 80% of pre-tax profits for the first half of the year, a reminder of how dependent Barclays remains on investment banking

Move, expected after last month's passage of US financial reform legislation, underlines Goldman's need to refocus its strategy away from investments with its own funds as the post-crisis regulatory regime emerges

Gulf Finance House has to find a new business model after its pre-2008 excesses that included a dependence on debts and heavy exposure to regional property

Court ruling gives hedge funds whose money was not properly ringfenced when Lehman Brothers collapsed access to billions of dollars deposited with the investment bank's UK division