Some of the world’s largest commodity hedge funds are reaping huge gains from the growing political crisis in Libya and the Middle East
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Hedge funds gain on Libya turmoil
Chinese-owned automaker to open a new plant in China in 2013 as it announced its strategy for the world’s largest car market
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Volvo plans new China car plants
Shares in Cisco Systems plumetted in after-hours trading after the world’s biggest networking equipment maker by sales revealed that its profit margins had slumped
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Cisco shares hit after profit margins fall
Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soft-drink company, saw sales volumes in Russia increase 31 per cent, although Chinese sales were down due to the timing of the New Year holiday.
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Emerging markets drive Coca-Cola
The Pritzker family is nearing a deal worth about $1bn to sell Triton Container International, the world’s largest container leasing company, to Warburg Pincus and Vestar Capital Partners
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Pritzkers near deal to sell Triton Container
The largest global logistics and warehouse operators agree to form a company that will manage assets of $46bn around the world
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AMB and ProLogis agree to $14.2bn merger
Roots of a recession Los Angeles Times US Govt is now in hock to tens of trillions of dollars backing up Wall Street's bad bets worldwide. It is the biggest scam in the history of the world that … and more
Hewlett-Packard added five new directors to its board, giving majority control of the world’s top-selling technology company to people who weren’t involved in the controversial August ouster of chief executive Mark Hurd.
The long-term prospects for fertiliser companies, making it possible for the world to feed a growing population, are very healthy
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Spin-off no reflection on Mosaic prospects
The Japanese group is weighing a possible acquisition of Goodman Global in a deal that would make it the world’s largest air conditioner manufacturer by sales
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Daikin considers purchase of US rival
UPS and FedEx, two of the world’s biggest parcel delivery companies, are being investigated by the US Department of Justice over allegations that they broke antitrust rules relating to their treatment of third party shipping consultants
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FedEx and UPS in US antitrust probe
ArcelorMittal has again sweetened its friendly offer for Baffinland Iron Mines in an escalating battle for control of one of the world’s biggest undeveloped iron ore deposits in Canada’s high Arctic
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ArcelorMittal sweetens offer for Baffinland
A new agreement has been reached on a groundbreaking deal that will significantly raise the cost of financing new passenger jets for many of the world’s best-known airlines
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Aircraft financing deal reached
As a new era of tougher regulation, greater oversight and less accommodating markets beckon, FT writers explore the strategies adopted by the world’s largest investment banks to fit this new climate
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How investment banks shape up after crisis
All Nippon Airways, the first customer for Boeing’s 787, has complained of repeated delays, in a fresh sign of pressure on the maker of the world’s most advanced long-haul passenger jet
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ANA presses Boeing on 787 delay
Some of the world’s biggest technology companies are lifting pay rates and taking other measures to retain and encourage employees
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US tech leaders raise the stakes on pay
The decision is a significant setback for the group’s new management just as it had started to boost morale at the world’s largest maker of business applications software
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SAP considers its options after $1.3bn fine
The US is set to be the world’s most active market for coal industry mergers and acquisitions next year, as buyers seek to secure supplies for a long-term rise in demand
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Coal demand shifts M&A focus to US
PepsiCo shifts towards juices, teas and sports drinks, while rival Coca-Cola continues to focus on selling carbonated soft drinks in the US and around the world
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PepsiCo shifts focus to non-carbonated drinks
The Canadian fund manager will approach private investors as it seeks to raise the money to finance ports, roads and power stations in some of the world’s poorest countries
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Cordiant to raise $1bn for emerging markets
Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, is sweeping up another successful online rival in the US, with an agreement to acquire Quidsi, owner of Diapers.com, the rapidly growing baby products site
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Amazon in $540m Quidsi deal
Two of the world’s biggest oil companies reported sharply higher third-quarter results, fuelled by stronger crude prices and better refining margins
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Exxon and Shell profits surge
Halliburton, the second biggest oilfield services company in the world, said it more than doubled net income in the third quarter as the shale gas and oil boom in the US offset a slowdown in Gulf of Mexico activity following the BP spill
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Halliburton profit surges in third quarter
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is about to launch a website for its Sam’s Club stores in China, in a sign of the growing interest of global retailers in online sales in the fast-growing market
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US retailers to ride wave of China web sales
Some of the world’s top business leaders are reversing plans for mergers and acquisitions due to a sharp deterioration in confidence
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M&A hit by fall in confidence
A private equity bid for Seagate Technology could value the world’s biggest maker of hard disk drives at $15 to $20 per share
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Bain, TPG and KKR consider bid for Seagate
General Electric, the world’s largest conglomerate, reported lower net profits on Friday, as revenues declined and it set aside more money to cover losses at the Japanese consumer lending business it sold in 2008
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GE third-quarter profits drop 11%
Big spikes in grain prices have led to soaring profits at the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader
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Cargill reaps bumper harvest from grain price
Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company by revenues, has agreed to buy King Pharmaceuticals, a maker of prescription pain treatments, for $3.6bn in cash as it seeks to diversify its portfolio
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Pfizer snaps up King Pharmaceuticals for $3.6bn
Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has issued a clear warning that the bank could shift its operations around the world if regulatory crackdown on the industry becomes too tough
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Goldman warns Europe on regulation
Unimaginative acquisition shows that the world is not global consumer goods company’s oyster
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Unilever / Alberto Culver
Walmart offered more than $4bn for South African wholesaler Massmart Holdings on Monday as the world’s largest retailer seeks to expand in fast-growing Africa
It may have been eclipsed by Facebook as the world’s biggest online social network but MySpace has emerged as one of the more unlikely beneficiaries of a controversial new film about the formation of its great rival
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MySpace cashes in on Facebook film
In a victory for the fight against criminal networks distributing counterfeit and adulterated drugs over the internet, the world’s second-biggest seller of website addresses is to screen customers for unapproved drug sales
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Web group to screen bogus drug sellers
The US helicopter manufacturer is counting on new-found interest amongst China’s nouveau riche, which is fuelling a burgeoning helicopter market in the world’s most populous nation
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Bell Helicopter banks on Chinese tycoons
Some of the world’s biggest private equity groups, including KKR and TPG, are working on potential bids for Foster’s wine assets after the Australian company rejected a A$2.7bn offer from Cerberus
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Private equity groups target Foster’s wine
Alibaba.com, the top online service matching manufacturers and wholesalers, announced its second US acquisition this summer as part of a $100m plan to boost its presence in the world’s largest economy
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Alibaba makes a second US purchase
A rapid rebound in advertising in North America and on television that surprised even Sir Martin Sorrell pushed WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group, to raise its earnings guidance for the year
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WPP raises forecasts as advertising rebounds
HP’s strategy remains intact in spite of Mark Hurd’s resignation this month as chief executive of the world’s biggest computer maker, the company’s acting chief said
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HP to keep ‘winning strategy’
The search for a successor to Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, which sets accounting rules for most of the world outside the US, has hit difficulty in the face of opposition in Europe to how the process has been conducted
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Hunt for IASB head hits hurdle
Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling company, says that its contract with the UK oil group largely protected it from penalties and liabilities for damage from the spill
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New spat over BP Macondo disaster
Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defence contractor by revenues, reports second-quarter results that beat analysts’ earnings estimates but fall slightly short of forecasts for revenues
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Lockheed reports rise in profits
A lack of clarity about energy and healthcare policy is restraining the pace of economic recovery among small businesses in the US, according to the world’s largest package delivery company
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US needs to deliver certainty, says UPS
Second-quarter profits soar at the world’s largest asset manager on the back of improved markets and the 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors
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BGI deal boosts BlackRock profits
Private equity firms are scouring the world for deals, with Carlyle securing two deals and competing for a third this week alone
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Carlyle seals two buy-out deals, seeking third
Delta Air Lines swung to it first quarterly profit in more than two years, as the world’s biggest carrier by revenues benefited from rebounding demand for travel, filling its planes and raising ticket price
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Pick-up in air travel lifts Delta to profit
Toy Story 3 is on course to become the biggest-grossing animated film ever released by Walt Disney after generating $630.2m in its first month in cinemas, with the film yet to screen in about half of the world’s movie markets
As liquidity remains tight the limits on access to export credit guarantees have upset many of the world’s biggest airlines, which claim the issue has led to an unfairly distorted market
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Aircraft financing debate to come to a head
Despite reservations, the world remains remarkably tolerant of anti-social behaviour in the markets and in the wider business environment
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Tackling anti-social financial behaviour
Despite reservations, the world remains remarkably tolerant of anti-social behaviour in the markets and in the wider business environment
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Tackling antisocial financial behaviour