Merger Hopes Help Push FTSE HigherConfirmation of bid interest in Gallaher led traders to re-examine some equally persistent takeover theories, which put both Barclays and SSL International in demand as the FTSE 100 index rose as much...
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Time Ripe For Melbourne Purchases, Says OrchardProperty funds colossus Orchard sells a prominent Brisbane office building for $54.5 million as the company prepares for investment in Melbourne....
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Books Of The Times: The Case For Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers? Dirty TacticsMelody Petersen has written an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril....
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Even In Hard Times, You Can Still Be Sure Of ShellThe City can be hard to please, as Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of
Shell, will doubtless tell you....
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Bombings Mar Sri Lanka’s 60th Anniversary Of StatehoodTwo roadside bombings, one of which tore through a civilian bus about 150 miles outside of the country’s capital, killed 13 people, the military said....
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