China enacts a labor law meant to improve workers' rights
The action followed complaints about unpaid wages and other abuses, and an official tried to assure wary... [read more]
Airbus pins its hopes on sales at Paris show
Company sees big things - and lots of orders - for its midsize A350 at the Paris Air Show this week.
US retail sales surge
3.15pm: Shoppers shrugged off higher petrol prices and falling house prices last month to give retail... [read more]
Toyota passed GM in sales last year on technicality
Toyota's long-awaited unseating of General Motors as the world's biggest carmaker already happened in... [read more]
Women sought as financial planners
Only about 20 percent of insurance agents and financial advisers are women, a statistic many in the industry... [read more]
Lloyds predicts double digit profit growth
Bank announces strong sales of mortgages and savings in its first six months. By Phillip Inman.
Banks
Manufacturers call on Bank to halt rate rises
The Bank of England should resist the temptation to raise interest rates again this week because inflation... [read more]
ShoreBank thrives despite early predictions
Opening a bank aimed at improving the quality of life in poor urban areas was supposed to be a grand... [read more]
Energy
UK oil output shortfall raises fears of dependence on Russia
The energy industry warned today that government targets of keeping Britain's oil and gas production... [read more]
BP in oilseed tree project
Company sets up a venture with biodiesel firm to increase planting of jatropha, a tree that produces... [read more]
