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Siemens plans to buy UGS for $3.5bn

Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering group, is to strengthen its core automation division by paying $3.5bn to buy private equity-owned UGS as it seeks to show it has not been paralysed by bribery allegations.

Merkel calls for challenging emissions controls

Translantic differences remain

Wall St titans take the fight to Europe

Competition issue a hot topic

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Shares fall 15%

Norway declares Apple’s iTunes illegal

US group faulted for stifling competition

Iron ore dispute threatens CSN’s bid for Corus

Blow could revitalise Tata bid

European insurance industry faces crackdown

Contingency payments under the spotlight

Axa chief calls for more openness

More transparency needed for hedge funds

Bush urges Congress to ‘find resolve’ on Iraq

President faces a widely unpopular war

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Sun lures KKR

Sun Microsystems did not need cash. It did need credibility. Allowing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’ Amsterdam-listed investment fund to buy $700m of convertible notes is clearly an attempt to provide the latter.

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Why British tolerance of foreign ownership is in question

UK

As buyers abroad snap up its top corporate names, the UK can take pride in an open economy but worries are growing that vital attributes might be lost. However, companies bent on acquiring a British business need have few concerns.

Markets

Will Reits keep rising?

Richard Beales

US real estate investment trusts are hot news. They have outperformed the equity market consistently over the past five years. But will the sector continue to perform strongly in 2007, asks Richard Beales.

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European corporatism must embrace change

Martin Wolf

Remarkably, the information technology revolution is the first since the industrial revolution in which none of the big European economies plays a leading role, writes Martin Wolf.

States should create a climate for change

Climate change

Under Europe’s current carbon trading scheme, companies that undertake projects to capture and store carbon dioxide receive no credit for the reduction in emissions, writes Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell.

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Lucy Kellaway

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