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• BHP needs to strike balance on Potash price
  

  Posted: 19 hours ago

  Three weeks after its initially secret $39bn approach to PotashCorp, the Anglo-Australian miner faces conflicting pressures over the price it might have to pay to secure its target

• Walsh sets his sights high for BA-Iberia
  

  Posted: Sep 5 2010 at 2:07 pm

  Speculation grows over potential merger targets ? and whether deals would be beneficial

• Cross-border lending by banks rises
  

  Posted: Sep 5 2010 at 12:13 pm

  Cross-border lending by banks rose at the start of this year for the first time since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in a sign that the reversal of financial globalisation seen in the past two years is coming to an end

• Private equity groups line up bids for Polkomtel
  

  Posted: Sep 5 2010 at 11:33 am

  Apax Partners, Blackstone, TPG and CVC Capital Partners are among the big private equity groups working on potential bids for Polkomtel, one of Poland's biggest mobile phone operators

• Google warned on China plans
  

  Posted: Sep 5 2010 at 10:52 am

  Google's technological lead over Baidu has eroded, the company's former China head has said, highlighting the increasing challenges western internet companies face in the world's most populous internet market

• Report into J&J product recalls looms
  

  Posted: Sep 5 2010 at 9:49 am

  An internal report into the manufacturing problems over the past year that tarnished some of Johnson & Johnson's best-known products should be completed later this month, Bill Weldon, chief executive, said

• Texas watchdog reviews Google's practices
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 5:49 pm

  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

• Lloyd's brokers weigh up iPads
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 2:37 pm

  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

• Wall Street takes cheer from employment data
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 1:38 pm

  US stocks rose, extending this week's rally, after a better-than-expected August jobs report eased fears about a slowdown in the pace of the economic recovery

• 3D adds new depth to ever-evolving TV landscape
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 12:12 pm

  The contrast between technologies at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin underline rapid advances set to revolutionise the humble 'box' that has sat in most living rooms since television became the focal point in family homes

• HP says cost for 3Par deal worth it
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 11:42 am

  Hewlett-Packard says its victory over Dell in the bidding war for storage technology company 3Par, should secure its lead over its rival in the important data storage segment

• Beijing eyes counterbid for PotashCorp
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 11:14 am

  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

• Goldcorp in C$3.6bn offer for Andean
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 10:29 am

  Canada's Goldcorp has launched a C$3.6bn (US$3.4bn) cash-and-stock takeover offer for Andean Resources, trumping a C$3.4bn bid made public only hours earlier by Eldorado Gold, another Canadian miner.

• US jobs data allay double dip concerns
  

  Posted: Sep 3 2010 at 7:36 am

  Fears of a double-dip recession in the US were allayed on Friday by data showing that the private sector had created 235,000 jobs in the past three months

• Potential PotashCorp deal questioned
  

  Posted: Sep 2 2010 at 5:20 pm

  The province of Saskatchewan is asking for a review of risks and opportunities it faces in a possible takeover of the fertiliser producer that is the target of a hostile bid from BHP Billiton