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Bharti bids for Zain: Low-cost bundle

18th February 2010

India’s biggest mobile operator makes a fresh attempt to enter AfricaIN SIGNING up over 118m subscribers in India, Bharti Airtel, the country’s biggest mobile-phone operator... Read more…

Schumpeter: A different class

18th February 2010

Would giving long-term shareholders more clout improve corporate governance?THE spectacular collapse of so many big financial firms during the crisis of 2008 has provided new... Read more…

Antitrust in the European Union: Unchained watchdog

18th February 2010

Businesses think Europe’s trustbusters should be kept on a tighter leashIT WAS probably with some relief that Joaquin Almunia took up his post as the European Union’s... Read more…

Markets

Indian harvest hopes sink sugar prices

10th March 2010

Sugar prices tumbled on Wednesday but crude oil prices breached the $83-a-barrel mark following the latest US weekly inventories data Read more…

Wall Street rises on bank deal speculation

10th March 2010

US stocks posted decent gains as they marked the 10-year anniversary of the Nasdaq’s peak. However, following a series of rises over previous sessions, markets lacked a positive... Read more…

Weak output puts pressure on sterling

10th March 2010

Sterling comes under renewed pressure after disappointing production data adds to lingering concerns over the UK’s economic recovery Read more…

World Business

Welcome to the United States of Iceland

10th March 2010

It's time to start paying attention to the financial sinkhole that Iceland is trying to climb out of -- the view from inside of it is eerily similar to our own. Read more…

China's ahead in the green-tech race

24th February 2010

Quick: which nation builds the most wind turbines? If you guessed America, with its blustery Great Plains dotted with whirring GE blades, you'd be wrong. In 2009, China became the... Read more…

Ukraine online: You've got crop reports!

16th February 2010

The U.S. is helping Eastern Europe connect to the Internet in an effort to spur development. Read more…

Business Blogs

Blogging Lessons from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

10th March 2010

A 40 year-old unsolved murder mystery. Strange cryptic codes in a bible. Sweden, sandwiches, and many, many cigarettes. The badass-est female protagonist since . . . forever. And... Read more…

The Power of Confident Writing

9th March 2010

There’s a wonderful European-style market and bakery in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas. They serve everything from made-to-order salads and sandwiches to chef-prepared... Read more…

What Do You Do When You Run Out of Knowledge?

8th March 2010

Bloggers have a distinct disadvantage. When someone hires an expert in — oh, let’s say marketing — that expert can dispense the same information she did for the last... Read more…

Business Columnists

How much stress can the banks take?

10th March 2010

Perhaps the biggest cultural change since the credit crunch is that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) now takes the long view of financial history and insists that banks... Read more…

Can taxpayers profit from Northern Rock?

10th March 2010

Evan Davis asked me on the Today Programme this morning whether the probability that taxpayers would eventually emerge with a profit on Northern Rock implies that it was a mistake... Read more…

Rock recovery

Rock recovery

10th March 2010

Northern Rock, the nationalised bank whose collapse is most closely associated with the onset of the credit crunch, is almost out of hospital. In formal accounting or statutory... Read more…

Comment & Analysis

Lunch with the FT: Paulo Coelho

5th March 2010

Over orange juice and a boiled egg, the bestselling Brazilian author talks about reconverting to the Catholic faith of his boyhood and life as an internet junkie Read more…

Lunch with the FT: Jonathan Safran Foer

26th February 2010

The successful novelist, who burst on to the literary scene in 2002 with 'Everything Is Illuminated', turns his attention to vegetarianism and ethical consumption Read more…

Lunch with the FT: Shah Rukh Khan

19th February 2010

The king of Bollywood who smiles from billboards and cinema screens across India talks about his unusually sensitive new film 'My Name is Khan' and how he manages stardom Read more…