Central banks are back in the foreign exchange market. After a decade in which reserve managers built ever greater stockpiles to shield themselves against external shocks, global reserve growth ...

That phrase is typically a recipe for disaster prognostication but there are reasons to think that memory chip producers, long a case study in value-destroying market share battles, have changed. SK ...

Unilever, the consumer goods group, reported a bigger than expected drop in first-half sales after a continued slowdown in emerging markets, where weakening currencies wiped €413m off operating ...

Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald, has launched a sweeping review of its operations as it seeks further cost savings to offset the impact of a difficult advertising market and a ...

Shareholders in AstraZeneca were left split by its decision to reject a final £69bn offer from Pfizer, with some arguing its management had betrayed its investors, while others praised the company's ...

Taiwanese group Wintek, formerly a major supplier of touchscreens for Apple's iPhone and iPad, has shuttered two plants in southern China and axed 7,000 jobs, leaving unpaid suppliers to chase debts ...

Jose Manuel Barroso warned that political instability was now the biggest threat to Europe's fitful recovery from the three-year-old eurozone crisis, arguing that governments are still at risk of ...

But it is a lot easier to gatecrash tie-ups between the security-conscious companies that run these server warehouses, as the US group Equinix looks set to prove. It has offered £2.3bn in cash and ...

Words in Place, by Gillian Darley and David McKie, Five Leaves, RRP£10.99, 162 pages. Nairn's Towns, by Ian Nairn, edited, updated and introduced by Owen Hatherley, No ...

The chief executive of Siemens met with Vladimir Putin and made a long-term commitment to Russia, despite the attempts by the EU and the US to isolate Moscow after the takeover of Crimea. Siemens is ...

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has just formed his fourth government, arguably the most rightwing in Israel's history. That is not just because of its make-up - there is a ...

Στο τραπέζι τριήμερη επιχείρηση με στόχους πυρηνικές εγκαταστάσεις, πυραυλικά συστήματα και υποδομές. Η Τεχεράνη προειδοποιεί ...