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US regulators are investigating the role of Wall Street firms in deals that may have allowed Greece

The new US F1 team are virtually sure not to make the grid this season, while rivals Campos insist

Up to 270,000 staff are to stage a 48-hour walkout next month in a dispute over cuts to public

Credit Agricole reports lower-than-expected quarterly profits after being hit by big losses in

Virgin Media says it will start to rolling out broadband with speeds of up to 100Mbps to homes by

Spanish oil company Repsol says it is to drill for oil in an area near the Falkland Islands.

Royal Bank of Scotland says the way it deals with customers' complaints is to be investigated by

Union leaders meet to discuss "orchestrated action" in the wake of the partial mothballing of the

A key confidant to imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff's former has been arrested on securities

Orders for US durable goods rose by 3% in January, the biggest jump in six months, official figures

Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos accuses Germany of failing to compensate Greece for

Nissan, Daihatsu and Suzuki Motor announce the recall of thousands of vehicles, mostly in Japan.

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Two of Europe's biggest telecoms firms, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, see big drops in

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The number of immigrants entering the UK from Central and Eastern Europe has continued to fall,

Royal Bank of Scotland reports a loss of £3.6bn for 2009, but is set to pay bonuses totalling

Spanish airline Iberia, which is merging with British Airways, reports a worse-than-expected loss

A financial services firm becomes the first to be fined for a saga surrounding investments backed

A Conservative government would be "straight" with the public about its plans to cut spending,

The number of new complaints made to the Financial Ombudsman Service rose by 18% in the last six

The north-east of England is considered as the site for a £100m wind power research centre.

The number of people out of work in Germany rose by 7,000 in February to 3.43 million, official

The chairman of US bank Morgan Stanley, John Mack, says that bankers are still paying themselves

Operating profits at British Gas jumped by 58% in 2009 to a record £595m, its parent company

The government is told its plans to tax high earners' pension contributions will do "enormous harm"

Bank of Ireland announces that it will not be renewing its sponsorship deal with Golfer Padraig

The UK tax authority's system for dealing with older people's tax affairs is too complex and means

How microfinance is helping some of the world's poor

Toyota's boss apologises in the US safety problems that led to deaths and the worldwide recall of

Toyota's boss responds to US politicians' concerns

General Motors is to wind down operations of its Hummer vehicles - after a planned takeover by a

Why is the car giant Toyota and not Toyoda?

Bonuses given to bankers as a punishment as they were believed to be worthless have soared in

Scuffles break out as hundreds of thousands of Greeks strike to protest at austerity measures

Premiership football clubs in England owe more money than all the other top clubs in Europe put

An independent financial advice business is being ordered to repay customers a record amount after

US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke says interest rates will remain at record lows "for an

German pen maker Montblanc apologises to an Indian court for a $25,000 pen which critics say is

Savers with money in the Northern Rock bank will lose the government's 100% guarantee on their

Poor RBS, poor Britain: The chilling numbers