Business Articles April 2003



Vivendi admits to deluded aims

Americans push BAE investors into pay revolt

Defence Firms Call on Eu to Close Gap With America

Vivendi embarks on US entertainment sell-off

Sceptics start sniping at al-Gordon

Boeing loses US order to Airbus

Cartel Confusion Hits Oil Price

AOL Time Warner II: The Profit Returns

Opec set to curb oil output

Viacom's Comedy wrap

Lockheed profit boosted by war

AOL records £250m profit

Contempt of court gets Yuen the sack, and $30m

Instinet drags down Reuters revenues

Viacom shrugs off ad slump to post profit

UTC emerges as suitor for Chubb

Bechtel wins contract prize

Diller threatens to spoil Vivendi's entertainment sell-off

Diller threatens to block Vivendi sale

Transatlantic rift over fraud law

Degrees of separation WorldCom aims to reinvent itself as MCI

Jobs for the Boys: the Reconstruction Billions

WorldCom to overhaul scandal-tainted image

Lukoil puts west on notice

Disney plans movie cutbacks

US wages divide is wider than ever

Greenspan Damps Down Us Rate Cut Expectations

BAT defends US division

Ericsson increases redundancy tally

Israel paralysed by national strike

Drugs firms to cooperate on Sars vaccine

US Growth Heading Up, Says Greenspan

Analyst Scandal Costs Wall St $1.4bn

Banking on cooperation

Glaxo Cuts Price of Aids Drugs in Poor Countries

Iceland turns greener

Germany's biggest bank takes 1bn euro hit

Strong sales at Amazon push down losses

American Airlines chief quits in bonuses row

Generation gap

Flying low

Sluggish growth for US economy

Star of dotcom boom is arrested

$1bn loss at American Airlines

AOL advertising inquiry widens

Ebay rakes in rising revenues

US financials offer little hope of growth

Asia unable to mask Sars cost

AOL inquiry widens

Chip sales stall Samsung

Airline that needs a class on economy

Unions Force Airline Bosses to Scrap Pay Deal

NYSE starts front runners' inquiry

Ford backs out of the red

US 'jobless Recovery' Ploughs on

GM expects to miss target

American on the edge

Setback for Usa Inc

It's the Economy, Stupid

AOL chiefs accused of insider deals

Prospect of Iraqi oil exports cuts prices

Grundig Collapses Into Bankruptcy

US leaves Brown's aid plan in doubt

German Radio Giant Files for Bankruptcy

US-Europe Iraq row threatens trade talks

US retail strength eases slowdown fears

DirecTV succumbs to Murdoch

British Economy Rated Among Strongest in Eu

McDonald's: back to buns

Carlyle homes in on Fiat aerospace

Nintendo suffers huge fall in sales

Short fears World Bank and IMF will be frozen out of Iraq role

Markets Rejoice at News From Baghdad

Wal-Mart keeps on top of Fortune 500

Baghdad raids boost markets

Redundancies rise as US economy stalls

Hong Kong hit by Sars costs

Headlining

Microsoft founder's $300m lifeline to Charter

Markets surge on war momentum

Last minute talks to save American Airlines