Business Articles June 2003



BAE 'paid Millions' to Win Hawk Jets Contract

US growth and UK housing figures fail to signal recovery

War cuts Carnival revenue

Five in bids to dismantle Messier's Vivendi empire

Rate cut expected in US

Euro Entry Faces Obstacle

Elf Scandal Expose Banned

Grand theft in the wild west: the end of the affair

Acquittal Clears Trichet's Path to European Bank

Rise of euro pushes up costs of EU cities

Size matters

Customers Sue Macy's in $500m Racism Case

Cable flexes its muscle in the US

CNBC finds funding haven in Brussels

PeopleSoft rejects Oracle bid

US group secures Chubb for £620m

ECB Slashes Growth Outlook

Scandal threatens US housing market

Britain Not Ready to Join Euro

Ebbers named in two fraud reports

Fraud settlement costs Xerox six $22m

Martin Woollacott on the Euro

Redstone tempted by Vivendi cable

Vivendi may spin off US assets in 'fallback' plan

Protests ignored as US relaxes ownership rules

Levi's investigates fraud claim

Halliburton pays $6m claim

Burning up radioactive waste

Net boom claims settled for $1bn

Image of Industrial Italy Shrinks

BP Shields Itself From Lawsuits in Russian Deal

Thinking ahead

Price-fixing Row Over Bp's Russian Oil Deal

US Interest Rates Cut to 45-year Low

Malone moves for Vivendi music

Bio-techs merge to cut costs

Applause, please, for Alan the acrobat

Shell Opens Its Books on Nigeria

US Oilmen Fight Blair on Transparency

Airbus and Emirates sign $12bn deal

Elf Trial Hit By Lawyer's Revelations

Job Fears Haunt Us Consumers

BAE Faces Corruption Claims Around World

Snow Attempts to Dispel Dollar Confusion

US gas guzzlers drive up oil prices

Judge's stern message to Wall Street crooks

Motorola blames Sars for Asian dip

US home loan chief fired over audit inquiry

US jobless level climbs, boosting rate cut hopes

AOL gives up trying to sell off publishers

US jobless rate hits nine-year high

Martha Stewart: what the US papers say

Martha Stewart Not Cowed By Prospect of Jail

Chrysler is heading for $1.2bn loss

ECB Cuts Interest Rates By 0.5%

Bad Taste Day As Martha Stewart Arrives in Court

No jobs for the back room boys

Don’t Let Poor Estate Planning Tear Your Family Apart

Martha Stewart to Be Charged

Watchdogs Subpoena Bankers

SEC investigation into IBM revives accounting woes

US industrial rally gives markets a lift

Royal Bank's US arm faces allegations of race discrimination

Leaders talk up economic recovery

Don’t Take Your Estate Planning Lying Down

Turner fears risk-takers will be turned off

US relaxes media ownership rules

President spells out fears over dollar's slide