Alibaba has agreed to buy 50 per cent of Guangzhou's top-rated Evergrande football club, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the Chinese ecommerce giant ahead of a blockbuster US listing later ...

One must assume that Carlos Slim is smart. He is the richest man in the world, after all. His wealth, like that of others at the tip of the global pyramid, was built on monopoly profits, but he has ...

Settling with Mr Rokos removes a distraction for Brevan Howard at a time when its flagship Master Fund has suffered its first ...

Achilles Macris, a former top JPMorgan Chase banker, filed a claim on Monday against the UK's Financial Conduct Authority alleging he was unfairly identified and criticised in settlement papers ...

The men had been on trial in Munich since January over charges they paid too much for a majority stake in the Austrian lender in 2007, leading to billions in losses for the Bavarian state-backed bank.

So, as more cities bring on car schemes, the company is predicting trebled volumes, at 3,000 units, in 2014 and sales of €100m-plus. Profits are forecast to hit break-even in the second half (before ...

Toyota in 2013 brought in former General Motors executive Mark Hogan as an advisory board member. The Abe administration is ...

Mr Quinn said in January that there would be "no short-term fixes" to the litany of problems he faces at Balfour, led by those at its UK construction business, which accounts for more than half of the ...

Moncler, a skiwear maker that specialises in €1,000 jackets, pulled off the most successful European stock market debut of 2013 after its shares surged almost 50 per cent on the first day of trading.

Sweden's central bank has cut interest rates by 0.5 basis points as it tries to head off the threat of deflation amid intense international scrutiny of its monetary policy. The Riksbank was widely ...

She has deliberately chosen to write about a subject that came to preoccupy her - the 1989-2003 Liberian civil war and its depredations - rather than to "write about what you know". (Atuona is British ...

Activist investors are finding out the hard way that conventional warfare trumps newfangled techniques. For Starboard Value, one of the dissidents trying to shake up Darden Restaurants (home to the ...