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The UK prime minister will leave India without meeting Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress party, in a blow to his efforts to forge a ?special relationship? with New Delhi

The FSA is broadening the scope of its pay code to more than 2.500 financial services companies to comply with EU legislation that introduced some of the world?s toughest restrictions on bankers? bonuses

Global Markets Overview: Risky assets are gaining as strong company earnings and some good news on the US jobs front counteract a cautious assessment of the economic recovery by the Federal Reserve

Peter Voser, chief executive, says deep-water drilling has ?important role to play in global energy supply?, as the Anglo-Dutch oil group announces a near-doubling in second-quarter profit to $4.53bn

Move delights pressure groups but dismays business organisations, which warn that the measure is being introduced too quickly

Afghanistan?s president says named individuals could be targeted by insurgents for working with US forces

Estranged couples in ?big money? divorce cases will no longer be able to use secretly obtained documents in divorce proceedings, the Court of Appeal has ruled

New claims for unemployment insurance fell in last week, offering a glimmer of hope that firings could be abating in the stricken labour market

Push to boost transparency of regions? securities markets includes call for a ?consolidated tape? for pricing data to tackle lack of transparency as part of biggest regulatory overhaul in years

The UK?s largest fixed-line phone company reports a sharp improvement in cash outflow at its problematic Global Services unit, which services governments and large companies, as it reports a 38% rise in first-quarter profit

The UK prime minister will leave India without meeting Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress party, in a blow to his efforts to forge a ?special relationship? with New Delhi

Peter Voser, chief executive, says deep-water drilling has ?important role to play in global energy supply?, as the Anglo-Dutch oil group announces a near-doubling in second-quarter profit to $4.53bn

Chris Viehbacher, left open the option of a $19bn takeover of US biotech company Genzyme as he unveiled second-quarter results for the French pharmaceutical group with earnings up nearly 8%

Global Markets Overview: Risky assets are gaining as strong company earnings and some good news on the US jobs front counteract a cautious assessment of the economic recovery by the Federal Reserve

Push to boost transparency of regions? securities markets includes call for a ?consolidated tape? for pricing data to tackle lack of transparency as part of biggest regulatory overhaul in years

Afghanistan?s president says named individuals could be targeted by insurgents for working with US forces

Europe?s largest carmaker more than doubles its second-quarter operating profit and further increases its cash pile

Europe?s largest engineering company beats market estimates in its fiscal third quarter with a record operating profit, underlining the strength of the global industrial recovery

The International Monetary Fund approved a $15bn loan for cash-strapped Ukraine after the country demonstrated its commitment to austerity measures.

Santander unveils a slight year-on-year fall in first-half net profits, as bad-loan provisions and a poor domestic market offset solid growth across much of Spain?s largest banking group

The UK prime minister will leave India without meeting Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress party, in a blow to his efforts to forge a ?special relationship? with New Delhi

First major new piece of scientific research since the ?climategate? scandals

Afghanistan?s president says named individuals could be targeted by insurgents for working with US forces

Officials have yet to approve a final list of which state assets will be sold, even though the programme was first announced close to a year ago

One of President Nicolas Sarkozy?s key ministers is probed as a witness in an investigation into a political donations affair that has rocked the government

The country has approved an 80 per cent increase in the minimum wage for its garment industry in a bid to end months of unrest by workers who produce clothes for leading western brands

Push to boost transparency of regions? securities markets includes call for a ?consolidated tape? for pricing data to tackle lack of transparency as part of biggest regulatory overhaul in years

US economic activity has ?continued to increase? over the past seven weeks but there are signs of a slowdown, according to the Federal Reserve?s latest Beige Book survey.

ECB bank lending survey shows unexpectedly harsh tightening of loan standards, but that failed to prevent a pick-up in demand for credit, especially for house purchases

Mr Obama?s reforms, which have been taking place at the state level and often in the teeth of union opposition, have brought about what even critics concede is the most rapid school reforms America has seen in a generation

Global Markets Overview: Risky assets are gaining as strong company earnings and some good news on the US jobs front counteract a cautious assessment of the economic recovery by the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve?s cautious outlook for the world?s biggest economy sends the dollar to a three-month low on a trade-weighted basis, as further fragile data adds to concern

Push to boost transparency of regions? securities markets includes call for a ?consolidated tape? for pricing data to tackle lack of transparency as part of biggest regulatory overhaul in years

London equities make fresh gains, with sentiment re-invigorated by a series of well-received company updates

A clutch of impressive earnings from some of the Europe?s biggest companies helps improve sentiment, as the region?s traders turn away from worrying US data and concentrate on robust corporate newsflow

Bank lending to the industry is at its lowest for at least a year following a very sharp drop in June, data from the Bank of England show

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has asked some members to plan what to do if a European country has to leave the euro

Chinese steel and cement industry boosted by optimistic economic predictions

Adjusting the proposals to treat covered bonds and government bonds on the basis of historical performance seems relatively straightforward

US equities fell after lower-than-expected orders for durable goods, a mixed picture from the Federal Reserve?s Beige Book and cautious outlooks from Boeing and ArcelorMittal weighed on market sentiment

Super-agent Andrew Wylie is right when he says publishers must become more astute financially and creative editorially to retain their grip in the digital world, writesJohn Gapper

The US administration says there is an ?unprecedented freeze? in settlement activity. Who is fooling whom, asks Chris Patten

Foreign direct investment, though not yet at China?s ear-popping heights, has quadrupled since 2005 to a very handy $40bn but could be more, writes David Pilling

When the Tory party feels agitated, it forms dining clubs. There are plans for a number to be launched in the autumn, writes Bruce Anderson

The market now thinks that whenever the financial sector?s actions result in unemployment, the Fed will respond with ultra-low rates and easy liquidity, writes Raghuram Rajan

A government whose animating spirit was Lloyd George rather than George Osborne would ask the public to subscribe to a National Recovery Loan of £100bn, write Robert Skidelsky and Michael Kennedy

A new model is emerging in which smaller national and larger international oil companies must work in new partnerships, writes Nick Butler

There is much that the financial services sector could learn from engineering, but no indication it has done so, writes John Kay

There are some 22m people in the western Balkans, roughly the same amount as in Beijing. Difficult though their problems may be, they are eminently resolvable, writes Tim Judah

Early intervention can become a financially viable source of funding for public services from City institutions, write Graham Allen and Jim O?Neill

Finance directors take a bullish line on likelihood regulators will continue to allow these controversial bonds to count towards top-notch tier one capital

The investment-banking boutique shakes off a brutal spring on Wall Street to post better than expected quarterly profits as asset-management and merger advisory revenues increase 27%

The Swiss bank reports second-quarter profit of SFr2bn, pulling ahead of its domestic rival Credit Suisse thanks to resilient earnings in investment banking and a robust private banking performance

The German bank reports net income of ?1.2bn for the second quarter after a tough period of trading and reveals a ?14.8bn gross debt exposure to 'peripheral' EU states

Investors who lost millions in an alleged German Ponzi scheme are threatening legal action against Barclays, HSBC and Rabobank, alleging that the banks may have acted irresponsibly

The German bank's shares fell as much as 3.5 per cent in early trading on Monday before recovering, with market commentators blaming the fall on the non-disclosure, as well as profit-taking ahead of results

Anshu Jain's moves to integrate the German bank's investment banking units emphasises the group's ambitions to grow outside its core European market

The bank's shares rise 6% after better than expected quarterly profits and trading revenues, as investors bet the company would continue to gain ground on rivals

Goldman Sachs is set to join Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank as the lead banks for the planned $12bn-$15bn Hong Kong ­listing of AIA

The bank's quarterly profits plunged from a year ago as revenue slumped and the bank set aside more than $1bn for the UK bonus tax and its historic settlement with US securities regulators

With an SEC skirmish now behind it and a clearer roadmap to regulatory reform before it, investors can now shift their focus back to the bank's business

Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs executive and co-defendant in the US Securities and Exchange Commission's charges that the bank defrauded investors, on Monday issued a strong denial of the charges

The corporate broking arm of RBS, has won a co-broker mandate at Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Battles over Swiss bank secrecy and capital adequacy highlight the issues facing the group, which has written off more than $50bn in the credit crunch and returned to profitability

The Securities & Exchange Commission's settlement with Goldman Sachs showed the watchdog is not afraid to show it has teeth that bite