The Business

Like Wile E Coyote, the cartoon character who stays aloft long after he has run off the edge of a cliff, the...

By Allister Heath and Bill Jamieson. In Shakespeare’s play, a hallucinating Macbeth has a vision of a dagger,...

British expatriates have long been comforted by the reassuring tones of BBC World, the corporation’s global 24-hour news channel, but its appeal...

TNT, the global freight and delivery group, is in talks with European giant Airbus over a “massive” order for a new fleet...

The global credit crisis has hit Asia with a vengeance for the first time, triggering a massive flight to safety as investors...

The dollar could collapse if Opec officially admits considering changing the pricing of oil into alternative currencies such as the euro, the...

Roger Highfield has a piece on a new method of generating hydrogen:"Now scientists have developed a method that relies on bacteria in...

By Arindam Nag A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN LONDON (Dow Jones)--Allianz is a favourite punching bag...

ANGELA Merkel’s grand coalition bus has been a miracle of endurance, if not a dazzling feat of German precision engineering. The engine...

By Arindam Nag A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN LONDON (Dow Jones)--Judging by the latest crop of...

Like a precocious child seeing how long it can hold its breath, the world economy has remained defiantly indifferent to the relentless...

TIME WARNER’S share price is little changed from the $18 at which it sat when Richard Parsons was appointed chief executive. Because...

PARIS (Dow Jones)--Top French CEOs including Total's Christophe de Margerie and Veolia's Henri Proglio are enthusing publicly about a government-backed quest for...

The Conservatives have allied themselves to the growing grassroots campaign to force the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reverse his decision to...

After a traumatic few months on the markets, there is probably one anniversary most people in the City would happily skip. Still,...

All eyes in Beijing are on the Communist Party Congress which is ushering the leader, Hu Jintao, in to his second five...

888, the Gibraltar-based online gambling firm, has shrugged off concerns over ongoing American legal action with a strong set of results for...

WIKIPEDIA, the collectively compiled and edited online encyclopaedia, is one of the more remarkable achievements of the digital age. If published, its...

Until last week, the world had almost forgotten that Alistair Darling even existed. Until last week, the world had...

Singaporean state-controlled investment fund Temasek has pulled out of the running to buy Nasdaq's 31pc stake in the London Stock Exchange.

Industry insiders fear a planned marketing push for Exubera, fast becoming the US giant’s highest-profile disappointment, will be in vain.

It is an industry with revenues of £40bn ($79bn, E58bn), some of the greatest brands in the world and a workforce that...

There is the pursuit of real happiness – and then there is the economics of happiness, a Brave New World of artificial...

IN THIS day and age, one would be forgiven for assuming that all quoted companies maintain a comprehensive internet presence for the...