A look at the BP share register shows it would be a hard company to defend from overseas marauders. BlackRock holds a chunky 9.27 per cent. Legal & General is the biggest UK holder, in seventh ...

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BP, then led by Lord John Browne, swallowed American giants Amoco for S48.2bn in 1998 and Arco (Atlantic Richfield) for ...

Private equity has been rampaging through Britain's listed companies for too long. So, it is refreshing this week to see ...

Now we have a full house. Labour's spending review, the infrastructure plan and long-awaited industrial strategy.

Authorities in Frankfurt and Brussels are gung-ho for cross-border mergers, but national authorities are more circumspect.

The latest minutes from the Bank of England show that after an unexpectedly firm start to the year, the British economy has ...

Christine Lagarde has never been short of ambition as her translation from French finance minister to President of the ECB ...

The power of conflict to do harm to the international economy and domestic consumers was illustrated by Russia's war on ...

The Chancellor's spending review is being billed by Labour as a signal moment for a government haunted by banana-skins of its own making.