...a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar...

...defined contribution schemes by giving half of its £70m (€78m, $115m) default fund to...to future accrual. From this month half of the DC default fund will be invested inStandard...return cash plus 5 per cent using a mix of asset classes, has achieved annualised returns...

...increased its assets under management last year in spite of the bursting of the property bubble, according to McKinsey, the consultancy...lower fees and declining profitability, irrespective of the strong recovery in parts of the European property...

Ebay became a victim of its own success at the weekend after a surge in the number of items for sale caused the world's largest online auction site to crash. Millions of shoppers were first unable to search for items on...

...put forward by Carol Bartz, the new head of Yahoo, in The Economist's "The World in...into thinking that perhaps the "Niagara of information" really has changed management...But then I looked around me. I saw lots of people at desks calmly doing what they were...

...country's largest initial public offering since the outbreak of the financial crisis. Hochtief Concessions' planned stock market listing of up to €1bn ($1.5bn) reverses a global delisting trend of infrastructure assets in recent years. It will also be...

...Burkhard Varnholt, chief investment officer of Sarasin, who is betting that stocks have...three years, propelled in part by the flood of liquidity that central banks have pumped...remains far from consensus."The vast majority of investors are more overweight cash and fixed...

Dark pools of liquidity in the US equity market will be...regulations it proposed on November 13. "The number of active dark pools...has tripled since 2002...on the proposed rules. "Given this growth of dark pools, a lack of transparency could create...

...industry gathered pace in the third quarter of 2009, spreading its tentacles to some parts...in almost two years in the second quarter of 2009, but the recovery was largely centred...equivalent to 4.9 per cent and 4 per cent of their assets and Italy saw flows jump from...

...and acquisition bankers are spending a lot of time watching shadows at the moment.Mention...pass on trading ideas, publish a series of notes analysing the non-existent deal. The...rumour.Even if there is only a 1-in-50 chance of this deal ever happening, they can't afford...