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Goldman Sachs has awarded a £9m bonus to the joint head of its London business, risking a further backlash over giant City pay deals. The investment bank's share award to Michael Sherwood, 45, was revealed in American regulatory filings late last week. It is likely to rank as one of the biggest pay
Read moreThere are some big guns releasing results next week, including oil giants BP and Royal Dutch Shell, pharmaceuticals titan GlaxoSmithKline and household goods and foods leviathan Unilever . It's also a big week for economic announcements, with the European Central Bank (ECB) set to announce its inte
Read moreFootsie closed lower after an afternoon rally, following a downgrade of Japan's credit weighting by ratings agency Standard & Poors, fizzled out. Life insurers moved to the top of the pile led by Old Mutual, Prudential and Aviva. Mining stocks did well after the US Federal Reserve indicated yesterd
Read moreFootsie remains marginally in positive territory after trading sideways over the lunchtime session, with the downgrade of Japan's credit weighting by ratings agency Standard & Poors continuing to weigh on sentiment. Mining stocks are going well, however, after the US Federal Reserve indicated yeste
Read moreBP's billionaire partners at Russian joint venture TNK-BP have filed an injunction to try and stop the British company's £10bn arctic exploration tie-up with Kremlin-backed Rosneft. The oligarchs are livid at being left out of the Rosneft share-swap that will open up potentially massive oil deposit
Read moreBP and Rosneft have pledged to expand their Arctic development deal after asserting the agreement does not violate the terms of BP's prior tie up with Russian oligarchs. Signing a "strategic framework agreement" on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, BP and state-owned
Read moreBP's controversial tie-up with Rosneft hasn't gone down well with the oligarchs at Russian partner TNK who are furious at being left out of the Arctic exploration deal. The British oil major will soon count the Kremlin as its largest shareholders following the £10bn agreement with state-owned Rosne
Read moreSome of Russia's richest oligarchs have warned of possible legal action against BP over its £10 billion share swap with Rosneft. Stan Polovets, chief executive of the Alfa-Access-Renova consortium that is BP's 50-50 joint venture partner in TNK-BP, told The Times that his company had asked BP to han
Read morePhilip Bowman's decision to turn down a £2.4 bn cash offer for the medical division of Smiths Group, where he is chief executive, is understandable for any number of reasons. The sale of medical services, which enjoys margins in excess of 20% and provides Smiths with about a third of its earnings,
Read moreGoldman Sachs has issued a short-term alert on China and India as inflation rears its ugly head, advising clients to rotate into Wall Street and Old World bourses as a safer bet over coming months. "We're not as tactically positive on the BRICs as we have been," said Tim Moe, the bank's chief Asia-
Read moreLondon's leading share index is back below the 6,000 point mark after a sluggish day which saw downbeat miners offsetting mergers and acquisitions excitement. Miners such as Kazakhmys and Fresnillo were out of favour amid lower metals prices after China increased reserve requirements for banks in a
Read moreLeading shares lost ground over the lunchtime session, taking the Footsie back below the 6,000 level, with financials and miners featuring prominently among the losers. Miners such as Kazakhmys and Fresnillo are out of favour amid lower metals prices after China increased reserve requirements for b
Read moreSmiths Group is the best performer today following the revelation that it turned down a £2.45bn bid for its medical division from private equity firm Apax. Credit Suisse had previously estimated the medical division was worth £2.1bn. Even so, Smiths did not want to pursue talks at the indicative b
Read moreOil giant BP, still recovering from last year's disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico, now has its sights set on the vast untapped oil wealth thought to exist beneath the Arctic ice. Its strategic global alliance with Russia's Rosneft gives it access to three licence blocks on the Russian Arctic c
Read moreThe top share index remains little changed despite the M&A excitement. US markets are closed today, so shares will have to look elsewhere for inspiration if they are to burst into life. BP is in demand after the oil giant announced a controversial landmark deal with Rosneft, the Russian state oil c
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