It is every manufacturer’s worst nightmare – the product that the company has spent millions developing, producing, marketing and shipping all around the world may have a fault. There is a risk th...
Japan’s government has announced it will press on with tax reforms to cut a huge public debt despite a stunning election setback, and was looking to two opposition parties to help drive policy chang...
Spain’s largest bank Santander moved one step closer to its goal to be a full service retail bank in Germany with the acquisition of Sweden’s SEB retail banking division, the bank has announced. T...
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet dismissed warnings that drastic and simultaneous spending cuts planned by eurozone governments could send the 16-country bloc back into recession. US policymakers hav...
Japanese machinery orders tumbled by the most in almost two years in May as companies grew more cautious about the business outlook due to a rising yen and signs of a global economic slowdown. Bank le...
German defence ministry experts have drawn up a list of potential savings in weapons and equipment worth Ä9.3bn in the long-term, according to newspaper reports. German daily Bild reported the number...
Dutch carmaker Spyker Cars used internal funding rather than external debt to pay General Motors the final $24m purchase price for Sweden’s Saab, ending concern over how it would foot the bill. Nich...
Japanese business confidence was at its best in two years in the three months to June and big firms revised up capital spending plans, a Bank of Japan survey showed, in a sign the export-driven econom...
Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered Plc said it will invest $500m as a cornerstone investor in Agricultural Bank of China’s IPO in Hong Kong. AgBank is seeking to raise more than $20bn in a Hong Ko...