...been a surprise to the directors of Wing Lee Holdings, a manufacturer of switches and...Chinese characters for the names of Wing Lee and Wynn are the same, denoting "perpetual profit". As Wynn rose on Friday, Wing Lee quietly crept back down, suggesting investors...

...Club dinner at Mossiman's midweek, Monsieur Levy injected more V's - "for victory" - into his depiction of the recovery. He broke down patterns region by region and sector by sector, applying the V to China and Asia generally.The luxury goods purveyors were all...

England rugby player Lee Mears, 30, might have expected another cap in today's international against Argentina, had it not been for an injury sustained...

...councils" and turned on their former allies, al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi officials did not blame...residents said the murders bore the signature of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which lost the ability to...paramilitary groups, known as Sons of Iraq.Ihab al-Sobai, a spokesman for the local Sons of...

The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away

...with dangerous extremists in its ranks. Both are necessary.It was already known that Mr Hasan had contacted a radical cleric with al-Qaeda connections under investigation by the FBI. Now it seems he had discussed surreptitious financial transfers with this suspect...

...pay €1.27bn ($1.9bn) in cash for Sara Lee's personal care business to strengthen its...German brand Duschdas.Unilever said Sara Lee's skin care brands would complement Unilever...value-conscious consumers. Most of Sara Lee's products are in the "value" or mid-tier...

Sara Lee, the US food and household goods group, has...with Norges Bank Investment Management, Sara Lee's board said it would recruit an independent...Barnes' tenure as head of the group ends.A Sara Lee spokesman said the group had responded to NBIM's...

...leaseback and rental company Pierre et Vacances (P&V) recounts that British investors' first...as 4-5 per cent.For UK investors, P&V dominates the leaseback market - and...this position in two ways. First, P&V's parent company is aggressively expanding...

...returns insurers have guaranteed their clients."Before, the insurers' strategy was to use price to get market share," said Jonathan Lee, a senior director at Fitch Ratings.Taiwan's life assurers earned an average of less than 1 per cent return on assets...