COMPANIES

Europe will not make the most of its multi-billion euro clean energy investments until old monopolies are broken up.

Deutsche Telekom's U.S. wireless unit, T-Mobile USA, is looking at possible joint ventures with cable companies and network providers to boost its spectrum capacity.

MGM Mirage's plan to exit the mature Atlantic City market in favor of booming Macau removes a year of overhang from the company and should clear the way for a share offering in Hong Kong by June.

The U.S. food industry is in store for a smorgasbord of mergers and acquisitions as companies look to gain more revenue and earnings growth and new, innovative products.

General Motors Co has a reasonable chance to show a profit in 2010 and could sell shares by late this year though it has no timetable for an IPO that would reduce the U.S. government's majority stake, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said on Wednesday.

Canadian lawmakers accused Toyota Motor Corp executives on Tuesday of waiting too long to inform the government of problems with faulty accelerators in some of the company's vehicles.

Honda Motor Co will recall about 412,000 vehicles in the United States to address the risk that brake pedals may feel soft and slip closer to the floor over time.

BMW, the world's biggest premium carmaker, forecast a hefty rise in 2010 pretax profit with better results across its entire business, boosted by new car models like its popular BMW 5 Series.

Zhejiang Geely Holding and Ford said they were still on track to sign a deal this month for Ford's Volvo cars unit, after a Chinese newspaper said Geely's planned $2 billion purchase faced hurdles.

Top global miner BHP Billiton said on Wednesday nickel production at its Kwinana nickel refinery in western Australia had been interrupted.

Japan's Nissan Motor would consider joining a potential alliance between its French partner Renault and Daimler, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.

CWCapital, which has moved to foreclose on the sprawling New Yock City apartment complex of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, may itself be sold.

Applications for U.S. home loans slid last week despite the lowest mortgage rates in more than three months, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday.

Citigroup's life insurance unit Primerica filed for an initial public offering of up to about $234 million, as part of the financial giant's plans to shed assets outside its core banking business.

Growing up in Ghana, Ashifi Gogo was amazed that he could surf the Internet on his mobile phone from anywhere, but couldn't always get clean tap water to drink.

Delta Air Lines Inc said it could cut 840 jobs at a subsidiary that provides ground-handling operations as part of a plan to consolidate operations in Cincinnati in May to save costs.

GMAC's Residential Capital unit is attracting early buyer interest from companies including BlackRock Inc and Blackstone Group.

Harley-Davidson Inc shares jumped 5.7 percent on Tuesday amid speculation the motorcycle maker could be the target of a leveraged buyout.

Kraft Foods came under heavy fire from UK parliamentarians on Tuesday for raising false hopes about the future of a Cadbury plant as it battled to win control of the British chocolatier.

International oil majors have mostly lost interest in investing in Venezuela, Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Tuesday.

Housing starts and permits to build new homes both fell in February as winter storms in some parts of the country disrupted home building, a government report showed on Tuesday.

U.S. housing starts fell last month as winter storms disrupted construction and another drop in building permits suggested the weakness would linger.

World No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods, who withdrew from the game late last year after a damaging adultery scandal, announced on Tuesday he would make his comeback to professional golf at the U.S. Masters in early April.

U.S. housing starts fell last month as winter storms in some parts of the country disrupted home construction, and another drop in building permits pointed to underlying weakness in the near-term.

Beverage company Coca-Cola Co on Tuesday said it would invest 1 billion ringgit ($301.4 million) over the next five years to set up a bottling plant in Malaysia.

Oil demand is picking up, Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Tuesday, which could mean OPEC does not have to take any action on supply this year.

Honda Motor Co said on Tuesday it had received about 8,000 orders for the CR-Z sporty hybrid car in Japan after less than three weeks on the market, or eight times the monthly sales target of 1,000 units.

Regional lender Sterling Bancorp raised the size of its common share offering by 47 percent that was priced at $8 apiece.

Risk appetite among fund managers has grown this month with cash being put to work and equity portfolios being built up, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Tuesday.