Gold's record-breaking run saw bullion breach the $1,150 level this week, helping silver, platinum, palladium and copper

...schemes, most of which had no process for switching from 100 per cent equity allocations prior to the recent market downturn. Research by the National Association of Pension Funds shows default funds in nearly three-quarters of DC schemes invest only in equities...

Microsoft has had talks with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its

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

Traditional management is over. The internet has killed command and control. Now that everyone can analyse and ridicule

Corporate spending on research and development has held up better...companies continued to plough money into research at a significantly higher rate than...Potocnik, EU commissioner for science and research.R&D spending in Europe has also been...

...of a broad improvement in the spending environment for networking products, in particular, and tech more broadly."Shares in Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry group of smartphones, showed strong early gains and closed up 0.3 per cent to $57.79...

...executive of Qinetiq , has plenty on his plate as the defence research group prepares to announce half-year results on Wednesday...also looks challenging. In the UK, public spending on defence research is set to fall, while growth at its US business is likely to...

Afew weeks ago, Claudio Borio, head of research at the Bank for International Settlements, warned in a solemn note to Group of 20 leaders that modern financial policymakers are...