Business Articles December 2002



Jitters Undermine Dollar

SocGen Banking Chief Dies in Crash

Prices Fear is New Common Currency

Lloyds TSB strengthens transatlantic links

Interbrew to take on new chief executive

US will find it hard to erase scandal's taint

Red Hat accounts go into the black

Corporate America's Path to a Very Public Humbling

Crédit Agricole Coup Revives Bid Fever

Whopper of a wait for Burger King sale

Dollar at three-year low

Fiat Insider Takes the Driving Seat

Burger King sold at knock-down price

WestLB to Pay Back £504m in Aid

Fed leaves rates alone

Power struggle drives out Fiat chief

Gucci issues new warning as luxury trade dries up

Bloated, Bust and Losing Billions - Yet United Insists It Can Fly on

Disney's Treasure sinks at box office

Stagecoach to trim loss-making US arm

Stagecoach in £500m US writedown

Marks & Spencer's US sale falls through

Local councils attack WTO

Glaxo faces losing exclusive rights to £5m-a-day blockbuster drug

Sold: Small Town, Needs Work

Hurd's Telecom Privatisation Unravels

Jobless Fall Lifts Wall Street Gloom

Spitzer Reaches $1.4bn Settlement With Banks

Soros in £1.4m Fine for Insider Trading

French Court Convicts Soros of Insider Trading

CSFB Fined £4m for Japan Cover-up

Bank 'fixed Gold Price for Years'

Conseco takes Chapter 11 route

Weary Gent declares

French police in new Vivendi raid

Wakeham's Enron Role Under Scrutiny

Nestle Claims £3.7m From Famine-hit Ethiopia

Price of gold up as dollar falls to war fears

McDonald's faces first loss

Cadbury expands with gum deal

Salomon to pay $3m for sex discrimination

Conseco announces bankruptcy

Sarin: Vodafone's £21m fat cat

Gent to step down in July

Cadbury secure deal to buy Adams

The Scourge of Wall Street on the Cusp of a Historic Victory

Agricole bids £13bn for Lyonnais

Technology downturn hits Nasdaq 100 index

BA chief attacks US government for United rescue

Cable & Wireless to axe 65% of staff

French police swoop on Vivendi offices

Leak charges force out defence executive

Airbus scales back deliveries as recession bites

Wall Street Banks Take More Enron Flak

Risk of Recession, Says World Bank As Recovery Falters

Quiet American is crucial player in cable firms

New regulator socks it to Wall Street

Stoppage strikes at the very heart of Portugal

United Airlines Files for Bankruptcy

Wall Street fines could reach $2bn

US Treasury Secretary Resigns

Hundreds of Jobs to Go at Aol As Revenues Fall

Orange to Cut 1,000 Jobs

Loan Refusal Puts United Airlines on the Brink

AOL admits core revenues will fall 50%

Vivendi snatches up Cegetel stake

German unemployment hits four-year high

T-Online sale pleases investors

AOL warns of 40% fall in advertising revenue

Banks Bemoan Euro Dither

Japan can't teach us how to handle deflation