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TXU set to approve record private equity deal

The board of TXU, one of America’s largest utilities, met to approve a $44.5bn takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group, in what would rank as the largest private equity buy-out on record.

Sarkozy to relinquish interior ministry

Right’s candidate to focus on campaign

Daimler eyes GM stake in Chrysler deal

Carmaker weighs all-share deal

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Barroso to urge EU on energy overhaul

Ambitious review of the bloc’s energy policies

Dutch regulator intervenes over ABN Amro

Hedge fund’s break-up push is ‘bridge too far’

Blow for beer as biofuels clean out barley

Prices soar as farmers switch to biofuel crops

Citigroup hires AmexCo finance chief

Gary Crittenden replaces Sallie Krawcheck

Leftwing parties bicker ahead Prodi vote

Cuts chances for unpopular economic reforms

GE redoubles efforts to woo investors

Seeks to allay fears over ‘quality of earnings’

Fed stance puzzles economists

Questions over inflation and jobs

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Red-hot emerging Europe

Are emerging markets endlessly condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past? There are worrying signs that central and eastern European countries are ignoring the lessons of previous crises.

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Whatever next: the US eyes up European models

John Plender

There was a time when countries thought it demeaning to borrow from other peoples’ models of capitalism. Not so today, writes John Plender.

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Let’s stand on our own feet – not other women’s shoulders

Lucy Kellaway

If women’s networks exist to give women opportunities not allowed to men, that is discrimination, and there are laws against that, writes Lucy Kellaway.

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Italy needs change, not another rainbow coalition

Wolfgang Munchau

The country needs important reforms but it is hard to see how this can be done without big political realignment, writes Wolfgang Munchau

Better be blunt if you want but keep it cheap

John Gapper

Air passengers will put up with a lot if the price for tickets is low enough, something American airlines have yet to grasp, writes John Gapper

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How the inquiry into BAE’s Saudi deals was brought to earth

BAE Systems Hawk jet

The director of Britain’s Serious Fraud Office reveals what influenced his decision to abandon a dossier of alleged corruption involving the arms group.


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