Sunday, May 19, 2013
 
 

By Clara Ferreira-Marques

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will this week consider whether to probe the transparency of oil and mining firms listed in London, an issue highlighted by corruption probes at emerging market miners which lawmakers fear have dented the stock market's reputation.

The chairman of parliament's Committee for Business, Innovation and Skills said on Sunday he would this week propose an inquiry   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
By Allison Martell

(Reuters) - Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system.

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By Manuela Badawy

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the world's biggest central banks driving yields on safe assets to near zero, some investors are tossing caution to the wind and rushing to buy illiquid and previously overlooked bonds sold by countries with no capital markets track record.  [READ MORE]
By Ed Stoddard

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated labor climate.<...   [READ MORE]
 
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said the European Commission made a grave mistake by agreeing to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China and urged the Commission to work to prevent the eruption of a trade conflict.

It's a grave mistake, R...   [READ MORE]
 
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small lenders as part of plans to revive the battered sector, the country's foreign lenders said in an inspection review.

Greece is recapitaliz...   [READ MORE]
 
LONDON (Reuters) - The clothing brand sold by Britain's biggest retailer Tesco <TSCO.L> said on Sunday it planned to open more than 50 new franchise stores worldwide over the next five years.

F&F, which opened its first franchise store in Saudi Arabia last year, said it would ope...   [READ MORE]
 
 
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