Asian stocks slid on Tuesday, with Taiwan suffering its worst one-day fall in six months, as fears mounted that China could impose further measures to curb soaring loan growth, potentially dampening a global recovery.
EU regulators launched an investigation into whether a planned $116 billion iron ore production joint venture between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, criticised by steelmakers, will curb competition. Rio, the world's second-largest iron ore producer, and BHP, the third-largest, said they would keep their marketing separate to try to ease regulatory concerns when they unveiled the agreement to combine their Western Australian iron ore operations in December.
Power company Duke Energy said its commercial business unit, Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), agreed to buy a 14 megawatt Blue Wing Solar Project from juwi Solar Inc, a unit of Germany's juwi Holding AG.
European Union regulators opened an antitrust investigation on Monday into a planned $116 billion (71.8 billion pounds) iron ore production joint venture between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday he saw growing support for some form of international levy on banks to fund support for the industry.
Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest maker of PCs, will launch a digital music service across key European markets on Monday, hoping to benefit from consumers' rising appetite for new types of music download services.
China could overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy in 2010, one year before Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jim O'Neill had previously expected.
Germany will host a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in May to focus efforts on reforming financial regulation in the wake of new U.S. proposals for governing banks, a finance ministry spokesman said.
Technical problems caused an engine to be disengaged during the maiden flight of the Airbus A400M last month, but at no time was the flight in danger, a company spokeswoman said on Saturday.
A leading technology company is set to launch a new digital music file format which will embed additional content for fans including lyrics, news updates and images in what could be a successor to the ubiquitous MP3 file.
The following are mergers under review by the European Commission, and a brief guide to the EU merger process:
Talks between Airbus and European nations over a possible rescue package for the troubled A400M military transporter ended in stalemate with no new proposals, a source familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
France, Britain and Germany offered support on Friday for President Barack Obama's plan to limit banks' size and trading activities but fell short of pledging to follow suit on the proposal that has stunned world markets.
France, Britain and Germany offered some support on Friday for U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to curb banks' size and trading activities, which has stunned markets and could rewrite the world's financial order.
Airbus and seven European NATO nations adjourned crucial talks over the troubled A400M military transporter plane until Friday and a source close to the talks said they remained far apart on a possible rescue package.
Belgian Opel workers learned the Antwerp plant will close this year, with the loss of 2,600 jobs, as U.S. car maker General Motors said it would make labor and capacity cuts at all its European sites.
Suzuki Motor Corp CEO Osamu Suzuki said on Thursday he would probably refuse any approach by German carmaker Volkswagen for a bigger stake in his company.
Global growth is set to blossom this year on the back of resurgent Asian economies and as the world's richest nations emerge from the deepest recession since the Second World War, according to a Reuters poll.
Airbus parent EADS does not have adequate systems in place to monitor costs on its troubled A400M military plane project, buyer nations have been told, putting pressure on the planemaker ahead of crucial talks on Thursday.
German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen proposed a 15 percent cut in support for new roof-mounted solar power, a bid to ease the industry toward free competition but a slightly smaller reduction than expected.
Swiss banking heavyweight Credit Suisse says it will reduce its global bonus pool by 5 percent to pay for a new British tax on bonuses, but will cut deeper into the bonuses for its top managers in Britain.
China urged other powers on Tuesday to show more flexibility in dealing with Iran's disputed nuclear programme, playing down prospects of sanctions after six countries met to discuss the standoff.
