Banking giant HSBC abruptly closed down its entire equities division in Japan this morning, laying-off about 50 analysts, brokers and other staff from its head office in Tokyo, taking what it said was a "long term" view of its business.Ev...

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, has reported a fall in quarterly revenue for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company. The group, which makes most of its money selling the Windows operating system and bus...

Two PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors were aware that accounts of Satyam, the IT outsourcer at the centre of India’s biggest corporate fraud, were being misstated but signed them off in return for an “exorbitant audit fee”, Indian inv...

The oil division of Gazprom, Russia's state-owned energy giant, has became a significant minority stakeholder in scandal-hit Sibir Energy.Gazprom Neft offered 500p per share, trumping a similar 430p per share offer from TNK-BP, which was...

Speculation mounted in Germany that Fiat could be on the verge of making a bid for Opel, the European division of General Motors. And in a dramatic move it is believed that a top German government official left for talks with the head of...

Most businesses are planning pay freezes this year, abandoning the practice of giving automatic annual increases in the face of dwindling inflation and a brutal cash squeeze.No fewer than 58 per cent of businesses in a British Chambers of...

Travel and hotel groups are braced for a turbulent ride today as stock markets react to fears over the strain of swine flu that was reported to have killed up to 71 people and closed much of public life in Mexico at the weekend.Analysts s...

L. Rix A. R. L Stevenson, A. Punnia-Moorthy: An analysis of 80 cases of mandibular fractures treated with miniplate osteosynthesis. Int. J. Oral Maxillofal. Surg. 1991; 20: 337-341 Abstract. A study of 80 consecutive cases of mandibular f...

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said last night that many small and medium-sized financial institutions have insufficient command and controls to prevent them doing business with those on the Government's blacklist of financial san...

The chief executive of UBS’ investment banking division, Jerker Johansson, has quit after little more than a year at the loss-making Swiss bank.UBS said this morning that Mr Johansson had resigned "with immediate effect". Mr Johansson,...

John Thain, the Wall Street veteran who was ousted from Merrill Lynch following its takeover by Bank of America (BoA), has fired back at attempts to blame him for the investment bank's surprise loss and controversial bonus payments.Mr Tha...

NEC Electronics and Renesas are preparing a survival-driven merger that could create Japan’s biggest chipmaker.The proposed deal, which is likely to be completed in just under a year, will form a group capable of eclipsing Toshiba, the...

Along with other world stock markets, the FTSE 100 has rebounded very smartly since the beginning of March, mainly as investors take the view that the banking crisis may be over.While this is impressive, the real outperformance has been i...

It's hard to know whether it is worse that the Home Secretary charged her husband's porn movies to the taxpayer - or a bath plug that cost 88p. From helicopter flights to oven gloves, holiday homes to patio heaters, flat-screen TVs to too...

Public servants working in Britain's nuclear industry are being paid millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded bonuses every year, The Times has learnt.The finding, which emerged from the response to an inquiry under the Freedom of Informatio...

Morgan Stanley ended America's string of expectation-beating bank results on Wednesday when it reported a $177 million (122 million) first-quarter net loss.Shares in the bank fell by 9.3 per cent in early trading but recovered to reach $2...

Strong sales of iPhones and iPods helped Apple fend off the worst of the recession to report a better than expected 15 per cent rise in second quarter profits.Apple said that it sold 3.8 million iPhones in the quarter, more than twice as...

Boeing lost more aircraft orders than it gained during the first three months of this year as struggling airlines cut spending.The American aerospace group said that it had booked orders for 28 new aircraft but lost 32. Profits in the fir...

LVMH, the French luxury goods group, firmly denied on Wednesday that it was in talks to sell its 66 per cent stake in Mot Hennessy to Diageo, the world's biggest drinks company.Diageo, which owns 34 per cent of Mot Hennessy, was reported...

Alistair Darling read the last rites over new Labour yesterday by saddling Britain’s highest earners with a new 50 per cent tax rate as he struggled to dent a 1.4 trillion mountain of debt.About 350,000 people who earn more than 150,000...

L. Rix A. R. L Stevenson, A. Punnia-Moorthy: An analysis of 80 cases of mandibular fractures treated with miniplate osteosynthesis. Int. J. Oral Maxillofal. Surg. 1991; 20: 337-341 Abstract. A study of 80 consecutive cases of mandibular f...

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