Business Articles August 2002



Can Your Wardrobe Take You from the Outdoors to The Office?

Bhs boss makes new bid for Arcadia

£4bn deal to save Marconi

Two Worldcom Officials Indicted

Nestlé makes $11.5bn bid for Hershey as opposition to sell-off grows

Dollar Falls As Saudi Investors 'withdraw Billions'

AOL Time Warner Agrees $9bn Deal With At&t

KPN Reports Record Losses

US Top Bosses Rake in 7% Increase

Calling time on shares

Fury at Grubman's pay-off

Marconi Shareholders Face Huge Losses

It's Going to Be a Bumpy Ride

US firms fail credibility test

Black Eyes for Murdoch As Books Go Red

E-dealmaker Raises Alarm By Quitting Aol

Vivendi investors expect the worst

Watershed or Washout?

Gloomy Fed Set to Cut Us Rates

Testing times for the Fed

A pact, yes. But not a stable one

Disney shake-up tightens Eisner's grip

US clean-up laws cause confusion

Allianz silent on DrKW

Recovery hopes falter

WorldCom Writes Off $50bn

WorldCom Reveals Further £2.4bn Error

Shares dive as 1,200 jobs go at Royal & SunAlliance

Sanctions busters sued for $100bn

WorldCom Fraud May Be $6bn

Show Cancelled After Oasis Hurt in Car Crash on Us Tour

How Tyco Spent Millions to Keep Kozlowski in the Monet

Ryanair announces record profits

Relief as HSBC announces pre-tax profits

The easy life

Goodbye to Silicon Fen

Human Rights Row Over Bp Plan to Lay Turkish Pipeline

Plan Your Estate, or the State Will Do It For You

Virgin Blue Over 'bunch of Bankers'

Use This Checklist When Changing Jobs

Companies Support Community Involvement

Merrill told to pay Pennsylvania pair $7.7m

The end of a corporate titan

Enron puts assets up for sale

Andersen Agrees to Settle $60m Enron Claims

Bank 'granted Shares' to Worldcom Chiefs

Hurd faces questions on Serbian deal

Rolls-Royce Blames Losses on Slump in Air Travel

BA Stake Falls As It Rejects Qantas Rights Issue

Net Closes on Enron Chiefs

Ex-Enron Executive Pleads Guilty

BA Bows Out As Qantas Spreads Its Wings

Battle of the European V-companies

Anglo calls for help on Aids

Nasdaq Admits Defeat in Japan

US Airlines Still Reeling After September 11

Question Mark Hangs Over £32m of Aol Ad Revenue

Executive pay gallops ahead of inflation

United Airlines Threatens to File for Bankruptcy

Vivendi Junk Rated After 12bn Euro Loss

Vivendi seeks buyer for educational publisher

Unanimous Bank vote leaves rates unchanged

American Airlines Cuts 7,000 Jobs

US Airways files for bankruptcy as debts mount

Aids deaths boost profits for Old Mutual

Murdoch 'out of race for Kirch'

US Airways files for bankruptcy

Pressure grows on Clinton's classmate

UK market buoyed by rescue package

The Crash of 1929

The Savings and Loans Bailout

Bank in u-turn on growth

Now Enron is Challenged Over Last-minute $1bn Lifeline

The Bursting Asset Bubbles

IMF even less confident than two days ago

FTSE plunges amid fears of new slump

UK shares plunge after Wall Street slide

UK targeted in Serb inquiry

The book marketeers

Fresh jolt to American economy

Putin targets Stoli boss in the battle for vodka billions

UK shares dip and banks look vulnerable

FBI puts cuffs on former WorldCom chiefs

Barclays Hit By Argentine Debt

NYSE Looks for Second Home

FTSE rises after early drop