Business Articles October 2003



Rebates Bring Us Shopping Spree

$47bn Deal Revives Banks' Urge to Merge

The Long and Short of It

Proceed With Caution

NYSE Chiefs Eligible for $22m Windfall

French Sleaze Inquiry Targets Us Oil Subsidiary

Snow Talks Up Sagging Dollar

Brussels Takes on Us Air

Vivendi Says Farewell to Its Universal Vision

Tyco trial told of yachts and high living

Economic superpower rises in the east

Get it together

Reichmann muscles in on auction of Canary Wharf

Buccaneer buys into Man Utd dream ticket

US blow to AstraZeneca

Brussels in $4bn tit-for-tat threat to US

Scandal-ridden Ahold posts large losses

£272m Brazil Buy for Rexam

The Storm Clouds Gather Over Bskyb

Microsoft Pursuit of Google Revealed

Dismal Fate Awaits China's Millionaires

Kremlin Seizes Assets As State Power Returns to Russia

Microsoft Settles $200m Lawsuits

BP Unfazed By Yukos Arrest

World Bank to Back Controversial Caspian Pipeline

Sony to Axe 20,000 Jobs Worldwide

Employees Urged to Defend Iraq Contracts

BMW Moves Into Fast Lane on Us Freeway

Leadership Presence: Dramatic Techniques to Reach Out, Motivate, and Inspire

US Banks Pitch for Google Flotation

Oil Giant in Dock Over Amazon Waste

Cable Leads Viacom Advertising Recovery

The Richest Homeowners Are Now Ripe for Plucking

Dim Outlook for Growth in Germany

Shell to Build $5bn Plant in Qatar

Chinese Economy on Course to Outstrip Uk

BP Tries to Heal Rift With Russians

Ruling Opens the Door for Cut-price Hiv Drugs

Rocket Economics

Vodafone-Vivendi Carve-up at Sfr

Firms Get Ready for Business in Iraq

US Unions Threaten Action As Bp Cuts Health Bill

Exxon Seeks Clean-up of Global Villain Image

Advice for Entrepreneurs: Mistakes Are the Key to Success

Hoover Shifts Production to China

A worried BA turns up the heat on competition watchdogs

American is back in BA's sights

Share prices soar as US employment rise cheers investors

Exxon eyes Russian oil

NYSE 'must keep policing powers'

America bets its bottom dollar

ExxonMobil rumours abound as Russian oil firms merge

Microsoft loses ground in Sendo suit

Wall Street pain deepens

Vice-president to cable kingpin

Quattrone 'tried to block inquiry'

Levis finds jeans genie in Wal-Mart