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China is placed under pressure as several central banks intervene to make their currencies cheaper.
China overtook Japan as the world’s second-largest economy earlier this year, marking another milestone in the country’s transformation.
John Makinson says what matters is that people read, not how they choose to do it.
For the first time sales of ebooks outstrip those of hardcovers.
Study finds decreasing demand for fossil fuel makes expensive tar-sands projects unsustainable.
Analysts predict the recession will be the worst we’ve seen for at least 30 years, writes David Teather in London.
Rio Tinto has a dual listing in Sydney and a 14,99% stake in London would equate to around 11% in the entire group.
The financial quake of the past year has toppled almost all the world’s stock markets.
A car crash has made former dotcom poster child Martha Lane Fox, the founder of Lastminute.com, as passionate about her charities as her businesses.
A recent report by a Hollywood insider questions the profitability of making movies, writes David Teather.
When Maria Bartiromo started getting e-mails from someone calling himself Joey Ramone in 1998, she did what most people would do — she ignored them, assuming she had attracted…
United States mining company Phelps Dodge sealed a -billion deal last week that will create the world’s largest nickel producer and the leading publicly quoted supplier of…
A tip-off from Virgin Atlantic led to the price-fixing inquiry into British Airways (BA), it has emerged, marking a return to the hostile relations that existed between the two…
Anita Roddick, the campaigning businesswoman behind The Body Shop, made £130million on March 17 when she agreed to sell the high-street cosmetics chain to French beauty group…
Vodafone shares surged as investors bet that the cellphone company was ready to scale back its global operations after the apparent victory of chief executive Arun Sarin in a…
The fizzy drink of choice at PepsiCo on December 12 was more likely to have been champagne than cola. By the end of trading on Wall Street that day, the company’s market…
General Motors recently announced plans to cut 30 000 manufacturing jobs in North America, closing a dozen assembly and parts factories in an effort to staunch losses that have…
Disney is out to prove that you can serve God and Mammon after all and they are spending a fortune, by using religious institutions to market its new movies. David Teather reports.
Known for his trademark cap and greying moustache, Ibrahim Ferrer who achieved fame as the singer of the Buena Vista Social Club, died last Saturday in Havana at the age of 78,…
McDonald’s has announced another change of leadership after CE Charlie Bell stood down to battle cancer seven months into the job. Bell was diagnosed shortly after being…
