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29-07 Financial Times - Europe VW stuns markets with €1bn jump in profits Europe’s largest carmaker more than doubles its second-quarter operating profit and further increases its cash pile
29-07 Financial Times - Europe Karzai attacks ‘shocking’ leak of files Afghanistan’s president says named individuals could be targeted by insurgents for working with US forces
29-07 Financial Times - Europe IMF approves $15bn loan to Ukraine The International Monetary Fund approved a $15bn loan for cash-strapped Ukraine after the country demonstrated its commitment to austerity measures.
29-07 Financial Times - Europe EU watchdogs push for market transparency Push to boost transparency of regions’ securities markets includes call for a ‘consolidated tape’ for pricing data to tackle lack of transparency as part of biggest regulatory overhaul in years
29-07 Financial Times - Europe Gandhi pulls out of Cameron meeting The UK prime minister will leave India without meeting Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress party, in a blow to his efforts to forge a “special relationship” with New Delhi
29-07 Financial Times - Europe Stocks try to hold gains after Fed caution Global Markets Overview: Risky assets are fighting to hold their level, after a cautious but overall positive assessment of the US economy by the Federal Reserve
29-07 Financial Times - Europe Shell chief defends deep-water drilling Peter Voser, chief executive, says deep-water drilling has ‘important role to play in global energy supply’, as the Anglo-Dutch oil group announces a near-doubling in second-quarter profit to $4.53bn
29-07 Financial Times - Europe LatAm markets lift Santander results The eurozone’s largest bank reported first-half profits in line with forecasts, with thriving business in Latin America setting off sluggish income in home market Spain
29-07 Financial Times - Europe Siemens boosted by jump in new orders Europe’s largest engineering company beats market estimates in its fiscal third quarter with a record operating profit, underlining the strength of the global industrial recovery
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Amazon rolls out new e-reader Amazon is aiming to take digital reading into the mainstream as it rolls out a new generation of its Kindle e-reader ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Sanofi set to make offer for Genzyme Chris Viehbacher, the chief executive of Sanofi-Aventis of France, is poised to press ahead with a formal offer for Genzyme that could value the US biotech company at close to $19bn, people familiar with the matter said
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Banks plan for loss of eurozone member The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has asked some members to plan what to do if a European country has to leave the euro
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Research says climate change undeniable First major new piece of scientific research since the ‘climategate’ scandals
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Russia confirms $29bn asset sales Officials have yet to approve a final list of which state assets will be sold, even though the programme was first announced close to a year ago
28-07 Financial Times - Europe ICBC in rights issue after heavy lending Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is planning to raise up to Rmb45bn in a rights issue in Hong Kong and Shanghai to shore up its capital base
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Catalonia votes to ban bullfighting Region becomes first part of mainland Spain to prohibit the spectacle as parliament amends animal protection laws
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Leaked US files burnish bin Laden mystique US files published by WikiLeaks feature a series linking Osama bin Laden to suicide bombings, a plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai and financial dealings with North Korea
28-07 Financial Times - Europe China revs up renminbi expansion The quest to turn the renminbi into an international reserve currency may take time, but Beijing is taking big steps in that direction.
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Hariri tribunal takes Lebanon closer to crisis Lebanon is braced for another political crisis as a special tribunal set up to try the killers of Rafiq Hariri, the former prime minister, appears to be heading towards indicting members of Hizbollah, the Shia militant group
28-07 Financial Times - Europe King cautious on hope of speedy recovery Britain should not expect a speedy economic recovery, Mervyn King told MPs, adding that there was “some considerable distance to travel” before the economy returned to “normal”
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Chinalco shares suspended amid Rio deal talk People close to the Chinese state-owned miner suggest a venture with its Anglo-Australian rival could involve Simandou, an iron ore project in Guinea
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Telefónica reaches Vivo deal with PT Spanish telecoms group confirms it has reached an agreement to buy Portugal Telecom out of Vivo, their Brazilian mobile phone joint venture, ending three months of acrimonious wrangling
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Boeing held back by aircraft seat problems The world’s second-biggest aircraft maker reports profits ahead of analysts’ estimates but maker says it will no longer use seats from a Japanese supplier that has admitted falsifying test results
28-07 Financial Times - Europe ArcelorMittal warns on pace of global upturn ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, announces a 146 per cent rise in underlying profits in the second quarter but expects profits to fall in the next quarter
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Tighter terms fail to crimp credit demand ECB bank lending survey shows unexpectedly harsh tightening of loan standards, but that failed to prevent a pick-up in demand for credit, especially for house purchases
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Aldi co-founder Theo Albrecht dies Theo Albrecht, who died aged 88 on July 24, was the pioneer of a distinct brand of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap shopping that transformed retailing in Germany
28-07 Financial Times - Europe Risky assets rise as US concerns ease Global Markets Overview: The FTSE All-World stock index is up 0.3% as Asian stocks shrug off a jittery Wall Street session, with investors focusing instead on signs of on-track recoveries
28-07 Financial Times - Europe UK to extend civil nuclear ties with India David Cameron is set to clear the way to extend UK civil nuclear co-operation with India, putting aside security concerns to unlock a multibillion dollar market to British companies such as Rolls Royce and Serco
28-07 Financial Times - Europe BBVA sees bad loan totals fall Spain’s second-largest bank beat analyst forecasts with a 9.7 per cent drop in net profit, after bad loans fell and overseas gains partially offset a sluggish domestic business
28-07 Financial Times - Europe US jury convicts former Morgan Crucible chief Ian Norris, former head of the UK engineering group, faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after he was found guilty of conspiring to obstruct a criminal antitrust inquiry
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Soros set to buy stake in Bombay exchange Billionaire investor in final talks to buy Dubai Holding’s 4 per cent stake in manager of Indian benchmark Sensex index
27-07 Financial Times - Europe World Bank warns on ‘farmland grab’ trend Investors are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the World Bank
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Triple bonus boosts Europe bank shares FTSE Eurofirst banks index closed up nearly 5 per cent, best performance since €750bn eurozone bail-out package was sealed in May
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Cameron throws a spotlight on Turkey The UK premier is right to pay close attention to Ankara, which may not enter the EU but has a growing global role
27-07 Financial Times - Europe GE pays $23m after Iraq probe General Electric has agreed to pay $23.5m to settle allegations from US regulators that its subsidiaries bribed Iraqi officials to win contracts under the UN Oil for Food Programme between 2000 and 2003
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Ex-spy master blames US for leak Hamid Gul hits back at allegations he supported the Taliban, saying the US orchestrated a mass leak of confidential files in a bid to scapegoat him for its failures in Afghanistan
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Toyota to expand overseas production Toyota expects to begin building cars at a new assembly plant in India in December, and additional factories are planned for Brazil and China in 2012
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Daimler lifts operating profit targets German car and truckmaker added to the regained optimism in the global car industry when it increased its operating profit target by 50 per cent
27-07 Financial Times - Europe US home prices pick up in May Home prices in the US climbed higher than expected in May as the housing market benefited from the last drops of federal stimulus ahead of summer
27-07 Financial Times - Europe India to carry out bank stress tests Most of the country’s banking sector is state-controlled, but there has been some concerm about the capitalisation of smaller banks
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Google to power Yahoo Japan web search Google is to power Yahoo Japan’s web search and advertising platform, in a snub to last year’s tie-up between Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Yahoo Inc, a minority shareholder in its Japanese namesake
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Surge in eurozone mortgage lending Eurozone mortgage borrowing surged last month to the highest in almost two years in a sign that bank lending across the 16-country region may be flickering back to life
27-07 Financial Times - Europe Data and earnings news ease nerves Global Markets Overview: FTSE All-World index is up 0.3% and the euro is adding to recent gains as investors regain their faith in a solid, if unspectacular, economic recovery
27-07 Financial Times - Europe D Bank confident on continued recovery The German bank reports net income of €1.2bn for the second quarter, slightly exceeding expectations after a tough period for the trading it depends on
27-07 Financial Times - Europe BP plans $30bn assets sale Oil major plans to sell assets worth $30bn to meet the costs of its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and confirms the departure of Tony Hayward, chief executive, as it reports a $17bn loss in its second quarter
27-07 Financial Times - Europe UBS lifted by investment banking The Swiss bank reports second-quarter profit of SFr2bn, pulling ahead of its domestic rival Credit Suisse thanks to resilient earnings in investment banking and a robust private banking performance
27-07 Financial Times - Europe India tightens policy more than expected India’s central bank raised interest rates more aggressively than expected as it stepped up efforts to address persistently high inflation
27-07 Financial Times - Europe US recovery elusive amid fiscal gaps Most US states are expecting to see tax revenues rise after a freefall from the recession, but a recovery remains uncertain in the face of budget deficits and the end of federal stimulus funds
26-07 Financial Times - Europe Hayward to be offered BP Russia job Precursor to Bob Dudley, American and Asian head, taking over the helm of the oil group
26-07 Financial Times - Europe US Inc plays on caution to issue bonds Low cost of borrowing spurs companies to issue more debt