A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be "œvery interested" in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India's Kingfisher Airlines
Fears of a double-dip recession in the US were allayed on Friday by data showing that the private sector had created 235,000 jobs in the past three months
The Chinese government has backed Sinochem, the state-owned chemicals giant, to pursue a counterbid that could trump BHP Billiton's $39bn hostile offer for PotashCorp
China and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia
Authorities declared an overnight curfew on Saturday after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, bringing down power lines and bridges and wrecking roads and buildings
Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, is preparing to raise as much as R$55bn from minority shareholders in what would be the world's biggest share sale
Traders are piling into risky bets after a better than expected US labour market report reinforced hopes that the US economy can avoid sliding back into recession.
Having persuaded many of their billionaire peers in the US into giving away chunks of money, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are travelling to China to host newly minted Chinese tycoons to sell them on the value of philanthropy
BP said it had spent almost $2bn in the last month responding to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, even as it plugged the leak, taking its total bill for the catastrophe to $8bn
Lloyd's of London is to test whether Apple iPads could replace the traditional paper slips containing all the information on bespoke policies sold at the 300-year-old insurance market
