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UK urges UN to call for sailors’ release

Britain is battling to overcome Russian and Chinese objections to secure Security Council backing for a UN declaration demanding the immediate release of the 15 naval personnel seized by Iran.

Sarkozy aims to block foreign takeovers

Condemns Arcelor sell-off as a ‘waste’

Global M&A volume tops $1,000bn

Cheap finance fuels record first quarter

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Buy-out giant exploits new accounting rule

US push to stamp out overseas bribery

Companies face harsher enforcement

Paris and Berlin see sharp falls in jobless

ECB will see a strengthening case for further interest rate rises

US corporate profits fuel downturn fears

Companies’ share of overall GDP shrinking

Fischer quits Credit Suisse

Executive abrupt departure follows reshuffle

Profits rise at KarstadtQuelle

Mail order unit reports loss

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Despite a growing chorus heralding the end of a four-year bull market, corporate spreads just kept on tightening.

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Danone’s taste for microfinance pays dividends

European comment

Its chairman seems to be combining a passionate commitment for social responsibility with the more humdrum prerogatives of business.

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Corporate profits pose question for markets

John Authers

The main stock indices may yet be in the black for the first quarter. But a bigger question hangs over corporate profits, writes John Authers.

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Why Germany is again the engine of Europe

German car industry

Presidential candidates in France admire the economic resurgence of their eastern neighbour but fail to acknowledge the hard path that led to it.

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An alarm call for France that matters to the rest of the world

Philip Stephens

Mr Sarkozy, the conventional wisdom has it, would be good for France and, more importantly, good for the rest of us, writes Philip Stephens.

America’s ‘Seinfeld’ strategy in Iraq

US Iraq

US policy in Iraq satisfies the Costanza criterion: it is the opposite of every foreign policy the world has ever met, writes Michael Fullilove.


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