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MAN withdraws €10.3bn bid for Scania

German truckmaker MAN on Tuesday withdrew its €10.3bn hostile bid for Scania, handing Sweden’s powerful Wallenberg family victory in one of Europe’s bitterest recent takeover battles.

Royal criticises Sarkozy tax-cut plan

Socialist calls rival’s promise ‘scandalous’

GdF sets new timescale for Suez merger

Statement follows 6½ hour board meeting

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Alcatel counts cost of Lucent merger

Drop in fourth-quarter earnings forecast

Brussels split over new laws to cut vehicle emissions

Delay of two weeks on agreeing new strategy

Lukoil carves position for itself in oil

Company has invested $3bn in downstream assets

Sterling hits 14-year high against dollar

Market expects further UK rate rise

Citigroup head of wealth management leaves

Worries about “judgement issues”

China confirms missile test

Tokyo says Beijing not sharing information

Lex live

Alcatel-Lucent in trouble

Alcatel and Lucent first began discussing a merger almost six years ago. Has it been worth the wait? Not on the evidence of the combined company’s first set of results since the union formally began in December.

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Bush prepares an about-turn on climate change

George Bush

In his quest for a defining legacy beyond the Iraq war, the president is including global warming in his concern about energy security, writes Caroline Daniel.

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Fed on ‘perma-pause’?

John Authers

The “perma-pausers” are in the ascendancy. The US Federal Reserve has left its baseline Fed Funds rate pegged at 5.25 per cent since last July, writes John Authers.

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The Brics economies must help form world policy

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Brazil, Russia, India and China deserve a place at the top policy-making table, writes Jim O’Neill, head of global economics research at Goldman Sachs

Why the winner’s curse could hit complex finance

John Kay

The market suffers from the fact that people overbid for complicated products that they do not understand, writes John Kay.

Business life

Praise the company that stays public, for it does good work

Stefan Stern

There seems to be a dreadful inevitability about the phenomenon of private equity at the moment. No company’s future can be discussed without the possibility of a private equity bid being raised, writes Stefan Stern


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