...per cent first-year capital allowances for another 12 months, until April 2011. The EEF wants the small companies' rate of corporation tax frozen until the same date.To assist exporters, it called for talks with the European Union to allow the government to...

●Earth Capital Partners is launching the ECP Renewable Energy Fund to invest in solar, biogas and biomass projects,

...world's second largest retailer - and not Hyperstar, a new brand of Carrefour's franchisee in the Middle East: the Dubai-based Majid al-Futtaim (MAF)."MAF is the investor and Carrefour has no links with this project," says Marc Corbion, Hyperstar's managing director...

...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...

...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

A business cannot be anaesthetised, so in cases of corporate gangrene it is best to cut quickly and decisively. Thursday's

AOLon Thursday said it would cut a third of its global workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to save $300m

Five heavyweight private equity groups are among the first-round bidders for Matalan, the privately owned discount clothing

...burdens of the developed economies, are now the highest for an individual country, according to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.In contrast, the outstanding volume of CDS linked to emerging nations such as Russia, Brazil, Ukraine and Indonesia have...