Citigroup is poised to put its British online bank Egg up for auction as part of a plan to dispose of billions of dollars in unwanted assets, the Financial Times said on
The makers of the BlackBerry smartphone held last-ditch talks with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to avert a threatened cut-off of a key service while India took a tough line with the Canadian
The vast majority of oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico is gone, President Barack Obama's energy adviser said on Wednesday, and the remaining oil reportedly does not pose
British house prices rose 0.6 percent in July, reversing the previous month's fall, mortgage lender Halifax said on Wednesday as it maintained its view that house prices would flatten off this year.
French bank Societe Generale beat forecasts with an almost fourfold leap in second-quarter net profit as lighter loan-loss provisions and toxic assets helped offset weaker investment banking revenue. But the bank, which
Former Italy treasury minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa will advise Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, helping guide the country's austerity programme under a multi-billion euro EU/IMF bailout. "He will offer advice to the prime
Research In Motion unveiled a new BlackBerry smartphone with a touchscreen and slideout keyboard, hoping to raise its consumer appeal and fend off competition from Apple's iPhone. The BlackBerry Torch will go
Top U.S. automakers General Motors and Ford reported an increase of 5% in July sales from a year earlier, results they said pointed to a slow but steady turnaround for the battered
European shares ended flat on Tuesday as strong corporate results from the likes of Deutsche Post offset some worries about the economic recovery fuelled by disappointing U.S. data. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300
BP fine-tuned its equipment on Tuesday to deliver the first of two planned killer punches to permanently plug its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well that caused the world's worst accidental oil
