Business Articles September 2003



No grow area

Oil prices jump as Opec announces cut in output

Opec Expected to Hold Oil Output

Alstom Investors Flee on News of Us Lawsuit

Taking the Dollar Down a Peg or Two

Last-minute Reprieve for Engineer

Europe Hits Back at Illegal Us Trade Law

Carnival weathers bookings storm

Diller eyes European targets

'I do get rattled'

SEC asks judge to freeze Messier's payoff

BMG and Warner haggle over cash

Exchange levies record fine on BP

Fed keeps rates static

EMI intensifies bid speculation

Breakdown means no end in sight to Doha round

Diplomat Linked to Bae Slush Fund Claims

BAE sets sights on American expansion

EMI bond issue stirs takeover rumours

EU reneges on pledge to third world

End of the Credit Line?

When dogma meets democracy

Goldman staffer is accused of fraud plot

Bertelsmann bounces back into black

NBC flaunts its feathers

Ebbers faces criminal charges

Judge may block US media changes

Pechiney Holds Out for Higher Bid

Air France and Klm Plan Merger

Sour Mood Descends on Wall Street

Air France and Klm to Join Forces

Wall Street in Dock As Tyco Scandal Reaches Court

Move to Clip Us Hedge Funds

Schrempp quits NYSE board

Summer Surge for World Stock Markets

Digital fogs Kodak's epic film years

The Atkins-diet approach to economic management

Dollar's Drop and Oil Fears Cause Gold Rush

Vivendi Universal on target for merger and first full-year profit

Wal-Mart may face army of 1.5m in class suit

Dollar Selloff Defies Japan's Warning

EMI debt threatens hopes of merger

BA rescue deal keeps Swiss carrier flying

Dollar Slumps After G7 Call for Flexible Currencies

NYSE names stand-in chief

EMI confirms Warner Music takeover talks

Argentina's $12bn Deal Splits Imf

Computer Kings Rule in Forbes Rich List

Investors call for NYSE reforms

IMF warns trade gap could bring down dollar

US rich get richer

Tobacco firm cuts jobs to save $1bn

Grasso resigns from NYSE

Former Merrill Bankers Charged With Conspiracy

Spitzer Inquiry: Broker Charged

AMP's British Sell-off Delayed

Pension Funds Join Calls for Grasso to Go

Mexican standoff: the west is rumbled

The cost of failure

Blow to world economy as trade talks collapse

Talks in balance over trade barriers

Grasso faces ordeal by petition

Bank sues New York for Ground Zero skyscraper negligence

Microsoft doubles size of dividend

US Data Hit Bush's Hopes

Ja or Nej?

US recovery fails to create jobs

Enron Ex-treasurer Jailed

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury plots some international magic

Rebel Creditors Agree to Mci Deal

Grasso Tells Critics of His $48m Sacrifice

Boeing Looks at Sum of the Parts

IMF Strikes Positive Note

Legal Threat to Us Mutuals

Half of Bush's 'jobs and Growth' Plan Isn't Working

Spitzer - the Improbable Missionary

EC to take on France and Germany

Bush rattled by signs of 'jobless recovery' in US

Two worlds prepare for a showdown in a Mexican nest of vipers

China Leads for Foreign Investors

5,000 Jobs Safe As India Buys Hawks

BAE Wins £1bn Hawk Contract

SEC calls for details of Grasso's $140m

Hands Off Our Yuan, Says China

Stinking Shrimp Story Follows Bat From Burma to Bin

Snow opens fire against China's cheap exports

Télécom to Buy Back 13% of Orange

British Firms Set Sights on Libya

US banks in joint Canary bid