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India’s Reliance eyes Carrefour stake

Reliance Industries is looking to buy a stake in France’s Carrefour in a move that would catapult India’s largest private sector group into the ranks of the world’s top retailers.

Dunn cleared in HP boardroom spying case

All charges dropped against former chairman

US stocks rally after renewed sell-offs

Dow drops briefly below 12,000

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Law affects ex-informants now at listed companies

Lehman seeks to ease subprime fears

Shares drop in spite of record first quarter

Microsoft suing to evict ‘cybersquatters’

Alleged intellectual property infringements

Viacom seeks $1bn YouTube damages

‘Massive intentional copyright infringement’

Japan companies face EU shut-out

Difficulties over accounting standards

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Smurfit IPO

With the market drowning in private equity takeovers, how refreshing it is to see a old fashioned IPO. On Wednesday, Smurfit Kappa re-listed on the London and Dublin exchanges.

European view

Thales offers case study in corporate survival

European comment

Thales chief Denis Ranque has defied the critics who repeatedly forecast that his days and those of his company were numbered

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Mortgage woes

John Authers

Retail sales data, which disappointed traders, showed that the US consumer cannot be taken for granted. The fear is that problems in the mortgage market will damage consumption as a whole, writes John Authers.

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An accountability gap is holding back Japan’s economy

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Managements’ ambivalent attitude to shareholders leads to a poor return on corporate capital – and the state is no help.

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The neocons have been consigned to history

Jacob weisberg

Cheney has been proved wrong: invasion did not catalyse a new Mid-East; unilateralism has reduced US power, says Jacob Weisberg.

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Zimbabwe sinks into hell of hyperinflation

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The choice is simple: get involved now, while the Zimbabwean state can be saved, or get unavoidably involved later, in rescuing a failed state.


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