Customers of the world’s second largest retailer are heading for the exit as it has failed to address its operational weaknesses
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Carrefour: hypermarket daze
Private equity group has been one of the world’s most aggressive buyers of commercial property, betting on sector at time of unease about the global economy
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Blackstone raises $6bn for new property fund
The fast food giant faces accusations of “farm washing” as the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenues seeks to harness the growing local food movement
The US car market bounces back to become one of the fastest growing in the world in 2011, as Americans took advantage of cheap credit to replace ageing vehicles.
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US car market revs up
The $2.7bn purchase of the US insurer gives Japan’s largest non-life insurance group an entry into the world’s largest life insurance market
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Tokio Marine adds Delphi to acquisitions
Eurozone troubles affect the world’s leading mass fashion retailers
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One of the world’s biggest chemicals makers dropped almost 5 per cent after the company warned on profits, citing weakening demand
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DuPont shares fall on profit warning
Cameco, the world’s biggest uranium producer, declines to raise its offer for Hathor Exploration for a second time
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Rio set to win bidding war for uranium miner
Waivers allowing one of the world’s largest oil tanker owners to breach a series of clauses in its banking covenants are set to expire
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General Maritime’s future hangs in balance
Only one in 20 of the world’s largest companies now fail to report on corporate responsibility
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Corporate responsibility improves
Soft drink maker sells unit to Tingyi Holding, one of China’s biggest beverage companies, as it looks to expand in the world’s fastest-growing drinks market
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Pepsi to sell Chinese bottling operations
Former senator held to lofty ambitions for group and three weeks ago repeated his goal of displacing Goldman as the world’s top investment bank within a decade
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MF Global’s Corzine bullish until the end
The South Korean group has overtaken Apple as the world’s largest seller of smartphones, shaking off legal wrangling between the two over patents
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Samsung overtakes Apple as top smartphone seller
The manager of the world’s largest bond fund is taking a gamble that the Fed will be successful in pushing down long-term yields
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Bill Gross’s big bet on Operation Twist
Compensation schemes move away from short-term rewards after financial regulators around the world initiate a crackdown
Possible risks for site’s users elsewhere in the world and questions about the operation of US laws on wiretapping, campaigners in US say
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China group’s eye on Yahoo fuels privacy fears
The Japanese gaming network has technically the biggest user base in the world in a hot new area, but more players will soon be entering the game
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Gree: mobile gaming
A range of data on the world’s leading economy will this week be awaited nervously by investors after last week’s global shares sell-off
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Economic Outlook: US to test market nerves
Meg Whitman and Ray Lane have indicated they will review the company’s plans to spin off its personal computer business, the world’s largest
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New HP leaders reviewing strategic shift
The air freight industry, an already volatile segment, has been flying through severe turbulence since the start of the world financial crisis
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Cargo operators: Hopeful despite downturn
Two of these deposits, in the western desert province of Anbar, are big enough to rank among the largest 10 per cent in the world
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US finds ‘world-class’ phosphate in Iraq
Replacement comes after less than three years atop one of the world’s most-visited internet sites amid continuing investor complaints about its sagging stock price
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Bartz ousted as Yahoo chief executive
Toshiba has taken a significant lead over Sony and other 3D technology rivals with the unveiling of the world’s first glasses-free, large-screen 3D television
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Toshiba leaps ahead of 3D TV rivals
The accord is one of the largest in the history of online advertising and allows the world’s most popular search engine to avoid prosecution
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Google reaches $500m deal over drug ads
Liberty Media will pay $204m for a 16.6 per cent stake in Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller, three months after it tried to acquire a majority position in the company
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Liberty to pay $200m for Barnes & Noble stake
The Falcon HTV-2, designed to fly from the US to anywhere in the world in less than one hour comes down in the Pacific on its second test flight
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US hypersonic aircraft crashes on test flight
From Steve Jobs to Warren Buffett, an element of being hip appears to be an unalloyed asset in the world of business, writes Rhymer Rigby
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An executive’s cool quotient can matter
Fourteen years after a brush with bankruptcy, the technology group briefly passed ExxonMobil to become the most valuable group in the world
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Apple touches top spot by capitalisation
One of the largest market-making firms in the world announces it will restructure its business, while CBOE also responds to a broad decline in trading activity
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Knight Capital to cut workforce by 6%
The service opens for business in the world’s largest music market, after almost two years of fraught negotiation with record labels
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Spotify launches in the US
Say no to 'Sino'? Asia Times Online The main reason for the prominence of the story was two stories: firstly the publication of a damning research report by a firm called Muddy Waters, and secondly the revelation in the Wall Street Journal that Paulson & Co, one of the world's biggest … and more
Some of the world’s largest hedge fund managers have been left nursing significant losses after two months of volatile markets
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Hedge funds feel pain over volatility
America’s most dominant retailer and the world’s most domineering is facing questions as to whether it is past its peak, writes Barney Jopson
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Walmart: a thinner throng
Go Daddy, the world’s biggest registrar of internet domain names by volume, is close to a buy-out valuing the private company at $2bn-$2.5bn
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Go Daddy in $2bn-plus buy-out talks
Some of the largest websites in the world could suffer from interruption and access problems as they test out the new internet protocol system – IPv6
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Google and Facebook warn on new system test
The consumer electronics brand slips from second to sixth spot in the Reputation Institute’s ranking of the world’s 100 most reputable companies
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Hacking hits Sony’s reputation
Paulson & Co, the world’s third-largest hedge fund, saw the value of its flagship fund drop close to 6% in May, echoing losses across the industry.
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Paulson $9bn hedge fund falls 6% in May
Three of the world’s largest exchanges are in a battle for control of LCH.Clearnet, three people familiar with the matter said
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Exchanges fight for control of LCH.Clearnet
The Canadian province of Alberta could be one of the seven largest oil producers in the world by the end of the decade, its energy minister has said
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Alberta urges US to back oil pipeline
Mattel, the world’s largest toy maker, has lost a legal battle over the sassy Bratz line of dolls in a California court where a jury ordered it to pay $88m
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Mattel loses legal rematch over Bratz dolls
BlackRock reported strong earnings growth in the first quarter, as rising stock markets lifted assets under management for the world’s largest money manager
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BlackRock profit boosted by rising equities
This tale of the world’s former biggest insurer is a sober work that appears to have been researched extremely thoroughly
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Clangers dominate downfall of AIG
US prosecutors have charged the founders of three of the world’s largest online poker companies with bank fraud and other offences, in the largest crackdown since Congress banned electronic gambling transactions in 2006
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Founders of online poker sites charged
Arcos Dorados, the world’s largest McDonald’s franchisee, sold $1.25bn worth of shares in a US IPO, the most successful Latin American flotation since the financial crisis
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Boost for Brazil’s ‘golden arches’
Cargill, the world’s largest agricultural trader, appeared headed for its most profitable year ever on the back of disruptions in global food supplies.
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Cargill set for record yearly profit
In a sign of the increasing maturity of the hedge fund industry, Highbridge Capital Management, one of the world’s largest, has appointed its chief operating officer as president
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Builione named as president at Highbridge
The Consumers Union, known for its campaigns and reviews of cars, cameras and cellphones, is considered by some as the world’s most successful digital media brand
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Trusted reviewer tests online limits
Transocean, the world’s largest offshore rig company, awarded its executives bonuses for 2010, citing “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history,” in spite of the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
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Transocean awards bonuses ‘for safety’ in 2010
Once again, the chief executive of the world’s second-biggest food company is leaving her underlings to take the flak rather than present herself at the Houses of Parliament for the hearing
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Kraft’s Rosenfeld snubs UK inquiry
The latest key economic indicators from round the world
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