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Bank of England Brexit plan challenged by world awash with cheap money
The Bank of England's first rate cut since 2009 looks unlikely to be passed in full to borrowers, despite the BoE being ready to lend banks as much as 100 billion pounds ($130 billion) to ensure it happens.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Global security firm G4S gets grip on overhaul, shares soar
Britain's G4S posted strong results on Wednesday, sending its shares soaring on signs the world's largest security group had bounded back after previous scandals helped by more demand for its services and a shift in focus away from the UK.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Health on Wheels in action
In the summer of 2015, I was very lucky to witness Health on Wheels in action, as well as take part in some of the procedures.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Huawei plans big for handset sales
HUAWEI aims to be a vital player in the smartphone market in Bangladesh within a short time.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Global glut of oil products threatens crude recovery
Gasoline and diesel stockpiles have swollen to record highs across the globe, leaving refiners and traders few places to dump excess supplies and threatening large-scale production cuts that could derail an oil price recovery.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
France reports 'alarming' output drop
French industrial production dropped for a second straight month in June, statistics bureau Insee said Wednesday, alarming analysts who had been looking for a modest increase.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
India's implementation of CPI target to aid inflation fight: Moody's
India's decision to formally implement its central inflation target of 4 percent can help moderate future price rises and support macroeconomic stability, Moody's Investors Service said on Sunday.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
China's July foreign currency reserves fall to $3.20tn
China's foreign exchange reserves fell to $3.20 trillion in July, central bank data showed on Sunday, in line with analyst expectations.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Chilean salmon industry tries to kick antibiotic habit
Chile's salmon industry, the second-largest in the world, is trying to cut back its heavy use of antibiotics, which pollute the environment and could cause new super-bacteria to emerge.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Vedanta Resources aims to close merger with Cairn India in early 2017
Mining and energy group Vedanta Resources expects to complete its merger with Cairn India early next year, a move that would boost the firm's financial strength, Vedanta's CEO said on Friday.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Ukraine sees solar power as Chernobyl's future
Imagine one of the largest solar farms ever at the site of the world's worst man-made nuclear disaster that struck Chernobyl in modern-day Ukraine and sowed panic across Europe.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Kenya Airways: 'Pride of Africa' tries to stop a long fall
When Kenya Airways published the country's worst-ever corporate results last month, the scale of the loss revealed the effects of several disastrous decisions that the national carrier is struggling to reverse.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Beverley Postma joins HarvestPlus as CEO
HarvestPlus has announced the appointment of Beverley Postma as its new CEO.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Nokia to cut deeper as merger spills red ink
Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia said Thursday it aims to accelerate savings after costs of absorbing former French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent pushed it into a second-quarter loss.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM
JPMorgan denies having planned to buy Italy's BMPS
US bank JPMorgan Chase denied Friday that it ever intended to buy troubled Italian rival BMPS, as people close to the alleged deal had reported.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Bitcoin not money, judge rules in victory for backers
Bitcoin, a Florida judge says, is not real money. Ironically, that could provide a boost to use of the crypto-currency which has remained in the shadows of the financial system.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Business groups sue over new US limit on tax-driven foreign buyouts
Two business groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday over a crackdown on US companies that try to reduce their US taxes by rebasing abroad in a process known as inversion.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Afghan tourism brings reward as well as risk; government urges caution
When police stopped a van that was travelling across central Afghanistan to the western city of Herat, they were in for a big surprise: it was full of Western tourists.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM
PwC must face $1b MF Global malpractice lawsuit: US judge
A federal judge rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers' bid to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the accounting firm of professional malpractice for helping cause the October 2011 bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a brokerage once run by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Why India's GST is one of the world's most complex tax reforms
WILL India, a $2 trillion (£1.5 trillion) economy with 1.3 billion consumers, now become a truly single market?
6 August 2016, 18:00 PM