Protests and confrontations with police have kicked off in the Bahraini capital as the country's opposition movement marks the one-year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising.

The future of the dollar is more likely to be determined in the shale gas and oil fields of Dakota and Texas than in the sovereign wealth funds of Asia and the Middle East. This is because striking new ...

Growth in mergers and acquisitions activity by technology companies will slow this year amid an uncertain economic outlook, in stark contrast to 2011's 41 per cent surge, data from Ernst & Young show.

In Japan, bonuses are not what they once were. Just ask Keiko Shimoharaguchi.

A shake-up of the board of directors of Ekho Moskvy radio station has prompted fears of a crackdown at one of Russia's few remaining independent media outlets.

The UK trade deficit in cars is at its lowest level since 1975 as exports to emerging markets surge and imports decline. Here's a reminder of some of the models that have rolled off domestic production ...

Greece's recession worsened at the end of last year, new figures showed on Tuesday, adding to the pressure on a government caught between riots at home and pressure from eurozone leaders to force through ...

Tuesday 12:35 GMT. The euro has rebounded from early falls and the broader market is turning more optimistic, as worries about Europe's fiscal health are salved by a resurgence of positive sentiment on ...

The Indonesian investors in coal miner Bumi said they were withdrawing their request for an extraordinary general meeting, in a victory for UK financier Nat Rothschild who they had sought to remove from ...

Eurozone industrial output contracted significantly late last year, foreshadowing grim economic growth data for the fourth quarter, due for release on Wednesday.

MAN, the German truckmaker majority owned by Volkswagen, said on Tuesday it expected sales and operating profit to fall this year, as Brazilian sales are hit by the introduction of tighter emissions standards ...

Sterling was lower against the dollar and the euro on Tuesday after Moody's, the rating agency, warned that it could downgrade the UK from its triple-A rated status.

The German economy faces markedly slower growth and "considerable downside risks" if the country fails to stem the eurozone debt crisis which could force Germany's already weak banking sector ...

France and the UK were named among 12 non-bail-out countries whose economies are suffering from so many imbalances that they will be subject to in-depth investigation by the European Union.

Tuesday 10:45 GMT. The euro has rebounded from early falls and the broader market is turning more optimistic as worries about Europe's fiscal health are salved by a resurgence of German economic sentiment ...

In the first of their daily reports from the front row, the FT's Vanessa Friedman and Elizabeth Paton report from the opening weekend of New York Fashion Week.

Britain's annual inflation rate eased to 3.6 per cent last month, continuing its steep decline from a peak of more than 5 per cent in the autumn.

The world's biggest banks have introduced measures to protect themselves from the risk of a collapse of the offshore renminbi market in Hong Kong.

Robusta coffee has risen more than 10 per cent over the past four trading days to a five-month high, leaving speculators who had bet the market would fall scrambling to cover bearish positions.

Moody's downgraded several European sovereign ratings on Tuesday, but the region's equity and debt markets proved resilient, with many stock indices climbing back into positive territory after early losses....

The latest monthly report of the International Energy Agency contained the usual update on oil supply and demand numbers, but it also revealed a striking fact: the maximum production capacity of Saudi ...

China's Communist party leadership is preparing for a once in a decade transition but a political storm has erupted that could upset succession plans and end one of the country's most promising political ...

Hampson Industries, the aerospace components and tooling supplier, has put itself up for sale after warning that problems securing customer approval on its largest tooling order could see some revenues ...

Tokyo stocks reversed an early decline after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly boosted its asset-purchase programme.

When TPG withdrew its offer to take CNinsure private last year, the buy-out group said it backed away because of discrepancies between the business the Chinese insurance broker claimed to have booked and ...

Britain's annual inflation rate eased back to 3.6 per cent last month, as expected by economists, continuing its steady downward path from more than 5 per cent last autumn.

Yell Group's search for a solution to its problem of declining sales appears to be faltering, after both print and internet directories revenues shrunk in the third quarter.

Strong demand in the US and China helped InterContinental Hotels increase its annual pre-tax profit by a third and fund a 15 per cent increase in its dividend.

Moody's downgraded several European sovereign ratings on Tuesday, hitting the region's equity and debt markets.

Moody's put the UK, France and Austria on negative outlook late on Monday night, raising the prospect that the three countries would lose their triple A ratings due to exposure to the eurozone debt crisis....

Tuesday 08:30 GMT. The euro is softer while broader markets are cautious as worries about Europe's fiscal health return to haunt investors.

ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering conglomerate, fell to a worse than anticipated €480m net loss in its fiscal first quarter as a result of weaker steel demand in Europe, losses linked to the ...

Shares on London's main stock indices were broadly lower on Tuesday after Moody's lowered its outlook on Britain's coveted triple A credit rating to negative.

BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP - News) and Rio Tinto have signalled their optimism about long-term demand for copper by approving plans to spend $4.5bn on the massive Escondida mine in Chile, and to reopen a smaller ...

The Bank of Japan has delivered a two-pronged attack on weak economic growth and a stubbornly high yen in response to political pressure.

Protests and confrontations with police have kicked off in the Bahraini capital as the country's opposition movement marks the one-year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising.

Carlyle is to sell its UK cash systems and automatic teller business to a Japanese rival in a £650m ($1bn) transaction highlighting how some private equity deals struck in the financial crisis are starting ...

Tuesday 05:15 GMT. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average reversed an early decline after the Bank of Japan kept its overnight lending rate unchanged, as was widely anticipated, but unexpectedly boosted its ...

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