Category: General

Pressure on Glencore over its $65bn merger with Xstrata intensified yesterday after a third party was revealed to be potentially muddying the waters for the commodities trader. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has been...

Unilever, the company behind Persil, PG Tips and Flora said it will apply lessons from its Asian business as consumers change their shopping habits amid a financial crisis that has left Greece mired in...

Members Only Post. Not for general release. NOW ON GENERAL RELEASE; edited version. Isn’t the news taking it’s time over at Nostra Terra Oil & gas? What could be the hold up? As you...

It’s been a good week for die hard supporters of Xel & Borders. Both share-prices made considerable gains this week on renewed optimism. And a decent result with the bit for Borders suggests that...

Putting aside the prospect of a clash with Athens, Angela Merkel has made a passionate appeal to the German public to back the Eurozone “dream.” The German chancellor today launched a bold marketing campaign...

Greece has “one last chance” to meet its bail-out conditions, according to Jean Claude Juncker in comments that crushed hopes for an imminent change of strategy for Athens and the Eurozone. The head of...

Royal Bank of Scotland is under investigation by US authorities for potential breaches of sanctions against Iran. The taxpayer-backed UK bank is understood to be being scrutinised by the US Federal Reserve and the...

*A digression from the norm.* It’s all beginning to go tits up for The Indies Owen Jones the self-styled people’s “Feminist, Socialist, Independent columnist” (his words not mine) has got himself into a twitter pickle with...