Two leading Xstrata shareholders – Standard Life and Schroders – said they would vote against the proposed $90bn tie-up between the miner and the trading house

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:04:32 GMT

Political leaders will consider bail-out terms ahead of meeting with prime minister on Tuesday night

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:45:42 GMT

Investors are torn between fears of Greek default and hopes for global economic recovery

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:26 GMT

The editor of The Times of London has apologised to a detective unmasked as a blogger after a reporter hacked his email

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:13:09 GMT

UK pharmaceutical group conducts ‘daily sweep’ to remove all cash from most eurozone countries and deposit it in ‘robust and secure’ banks

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:33:36 GMT

Office rents in Beijing have soared over the past two years, making it more expensive to lease prime work space in China’s capital than in New York

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:02 GMT

Oil group bullish ahead of a civil trial in New Orleans over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying ‘operational momentum’ has returned

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:02:38 GMT

US president gives his reluctant blessing to funds from external groups as super-Pacs become increasingly influential in election campaign

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:20:56 GMT

Downbeat forecast for Swiss group which warns of more structural changes as fourth quarter net profits fall from SFr1.66bn to SFr393m a year earlier

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:15:24 GMT

Turkey backs effort to force Assad to end violence, saying it could not stay silent after ‘fiasco’ of Russian and Chinese UN veto

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:59:55 GMT