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05-Sep - 4:21 PM GMT - Tory rebels back down on UK electoral reform
A threatened Conservative rebellion on voting reform - which could have raised serious tensions within the coalition - looks to have been averted after intense pressure by the Tory whips

05-Sep - 2:19 PM GMT - Weakened Eta declares ceasefire
Basque separatist group says it has ceased "armed attacks" and is ready to negotiate and take part in democracy to achieve independence for the Basque country that straddles the French-Spanish border

05-Sep - 12:13 PM GMT - Medvedev picks ex-Gazprom man to head Rosneft
Rosneft executive Eduard Khudainatov has been picked by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to replace Sergei Bogdanchikov as head of the country's top oil producer,

05-Sep - 11:37 AM GMT - Eurozone governments to step up borrowing in September
The eurozone debt crisis is about to enter a dangerous phase as governments prepare to step up borrowing in the capital markets to fund their faltering economies

05-Sep - 7:31 AM GMT - Protection of money market investors at risk
Sponsors will be less likely to bail-out money market funds to avoid breaking the buck

04-Sep - 11:05 AM GMT - Walsh hints at Indian investment for BA-Iberia
A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be "very interested" in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India's Kingfisher Airlines

04-Sep - 12:49 AM GMT - Texas watchdog reviews Google's practices
The company faces the first broad antitrust probe of its core search business, in its latest fight to contain legal challenges prompted by its spreading influence on online life

04-Sep - 11:11 PM GMT - Petrobras prepares to raise up to R$55bn
Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, is preparing to raise as much as R$55bn from minority shareholders in what would be the world's biggest share sale

03-Sep - 8:34 PM GMT - Investors buoyed by better US jobs data
Traders are piling into risky bets after a better than expected US labour market report reinforced hopes that the US economy can avoid sliding back into recession.

03-Sep - 6:14 PM GMT - Beijing eyes counterbid for PotashCorp
The Chinese government has backed Sinochem, the state-owned chemicals giant, to pursue a counterbid that could trump BHP Billiton's $39bn hostile offer for PotashCorp

05-Sep - 8:21 AM GMT - How huge houses consume fortunes
Cheap housing, like cheap oil, or cheap food, is good. Huge houses don't preserve fortunes, they consume them, writes John Dizard

05-Sep - 7:31 AM GMT - Protection of money market investors at risk
Sponsors will be less likely to bail-out money market funds to avoid breaking the buck

04-Sep - 3:38 AM GMT - Private equity and the legacy of its botched flotations
It is the industry's record at bringing companies to market that is as much to blame as stock market volatility for the number of abandoned flotations in 2010, says Mark Kleinman

04-Sep - 2:16 AM GMT - Fate of two Gartmore trusts uncertain
Two funds managed by Gervais Williams could close following his departure, as their boards contact shareholders to find out whether they would support a change of manager

03-Sep - 9:37 PM GMT - Lloyd's brokers weigh up iPads
Lloyd's of London is to test whether Apple iPads could replace the traditional paper slips containing all the information on bespoke policies sold at the 300-year-old insurance market

03-Sep - 2:34 PM GMT - Hedge fund closures
Some managers all over the world seem to be a bit world-weary, handing back external capital with a polite 'thanks, but no thanks'

03-Sep - 1:20 AM GMT - Silverfleet looks to auction US asset
The private equity owner of Sterigenics, a US medical device sterilisation group, has hired JPMorgan to run an auction of the company that it hopes will raise about $800m

03-Sep - 1:08 AM GMT - Banks are cutting use of bonuses to recruit
Guaranteed bonuses accounted for about 5% of the bonuses paid out for 2009 at 37 leading financial companies surveyed by the Institute of International Finance

03-Sep - 1:01 AM GMT - Couttie resigns as RAB Capital chief
The sudden departure of the UK hedge fund's chief executive is the latest setback for the FTSE-listed group, which has been struggling to recover from a near-disastrous collapse in assets

03-Sep - 12:07 AM GMT - Flash crash probe plays down quote-stuffing
Regulators probing the causes of the May 6 flash crash have concluded that quote-stuffing was not a 'major factor' in the turmoil, a person familiar with the inquiry said

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