Financial Times
HP turnround plan begins to show results
1 hour 42 minutes ago
Meg Whitman, chief executive, tells the FT that the ‘patient is showing more signs of recovery’.
GE eyes consumer finance unit IPO
3 hours 48 minutes ago
Jeff Immelt says the US conglomerate is seeking to shrink the assets of its financial services division and possibly list the company publicly
IMF studies bond restructuring reform
3 hours 58 minutes ago
First high-level attempt to address the issue since efforts to create a sovereign debt mechanism failed a decade ago
Ratings agencies under fire again
4 hours 47 minutes ago
Growing number of investors say agencies such as S&P, Moody’s and Fitch have not kept up with improving fundamentals in US housing market
Security body meets after London killing
5 hours ago
One man killed and two others hospitalised with gunshot wounds in incident near barracks described as a ‘truly shocking’ by UK PM
Amazon plans giant biosphere in Seattle
5 hours 3 minutes ago
Mixed public reaction to proposal to construct spherical greenhouses where the online retailer’s staff will work surrounded by shrubbery and trees
FBI shoot man in new Boston probe death
5 hours 32 minutes ago
A statement from the FBI’s Boston field office said officers had been interviewing ‘an individual’ when the person initiated a ‘violent confrontation’
Swedish riots stir debate on immigration
5 hours 37 minutes ago
The widespread unrest began in the north-western suburb of Husby, where immigrants represent about 80% of the population and unemployment is high
G8 protesters ‘map’ London hedge funds
7 hours 8 minutes ago
An anti-capitalist group has highlighted potential targets in the UK capital, encouraging supporters to ‘show their anger’ at companies’ addresses
Brussels to tighten bank bailout rules
7 hours 17 minutes ago
The EU proposes to impose more stringent rules on state bailouts which would see investors suffer heavier losses before taxpayers
US stocks cheer Bernanke’s dovish tone
8 hours 12 minutes ago
The S&P 500 jumped 0.9 per cent just under an hour into the day’s trading, helping the benchmark easily surpass all-time intraday record highs
Bernanke strikes dovish tone in testimony
8 hours 30 minutes ago
Market participants are desperate for any information on when the Fed will start to taper down its QE3 asset purchases, but Mr Bernanke said the decision will be driven by incoming economic information
Dish aims to scuttle rival bid for Sprint
10 hours 34 minutes ago
Dish has filed letters to the FCC disparaging SoftBank, created a website dedicated to scuttling the deal, and has just launched an ad campaign
IMF tones down UK criticism
11 hours 40 minutes ago
While the IMF made several recommendations to the UK in its annual report on the economy it did not repeat its April criticism of Mr Osborne’s fiscal strategy
Mixed UK data ahead of IMF verdict
12 hours 55 minutes ago
Retail sales volumes for the first quarter were significantly worse than expected but data show that state borrowing fell and tax revenues rose
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