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...AstraZeneca has announced the terms of its acquisition of Dutch-US drug company Acerta Pharma. The UK group will buy 55 per cent of the equity of the cancer specialist for $2.5bn....
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...(FT) Protests and deaths on anniversary of Egypt uprising At least17 people were killed yesterday in the bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected, as security forces fired at protesters...
...While in New York he talked about Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of his country’s state oil company PDVSA, which is supposedly up for sale....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...However, stocks and the zloty were both strongly up. http://on.ft.com/XuEogC Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.30% at 980.96 Americas DJIA up +1.65% at 12,796 S&P 500 up +1.99% at 1,387...
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...India revises up trade gap estimate as exports struggle Indian imports continued to outpace exports in February as demand remained weak in major exports markets like the United States and Europe, nudging...
...will seek United Nations Security Council endorsement for a plan to peacefully end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pave the way for a democratically elected government within six months,...
...feared that Islamabad would have warned Osama bin Laden of the US operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader, the FT reports....
...US asked India for more data on fighter setback India has agreed to provide the United States with more information about its decision last week to drop two U.S. defence companies from an $11bn fighter competition...
...Part counterblast against the shocking state of British baking, part manifesto for us all to get our hands floury and do something about it....
...In New York, Nymex West Texas Intermediate for July delivery settled $1.05 down at $53.73, having risen $2.11 on Monday. Brent Crude for July delivery fell 62 cents to $55.00....
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