The White House is a 10 minute walk from where BP's top man on safety explained why 21:49pm on April 20 delivered disaster. President Barack Obama was not the only person listening in America, though.

ARM Holdings surged to the top of the blue-chip leaderboard amid gossip its graphics chip will be used by Samsung for its new processor.

Ireland is to break up the nationalised lender Anglo Irish Bank, hoping to end a disastrous saga that has shattered confidence in Irish finance.

Foster's, the Australian brewer, rejected the bid for the wine division as too low, sparking speculation a better offer will come in.

Troubled support services group puts parent company and social housing maintenance arm into administration, thousands of jobs at risk.

Food prices are the highest they have been for more than a year according to a report from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Oracle unveils pay package after Hewlett-Packard launched legal action to stop Mark Hurd from joining rival.

BP facing accusations of a "self-serving" whitewash after it blames mistakes by contractors for Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

London shakes of losses as it join a rebound in global shares, helped by strong demand for Portuguese bonds, BP's oil spill report and Wall St.

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A report by the Office for National Statistics shows that in almost one in five household there is not one person with a job.

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UK oil and gas explorer Dana Petroleum has dismissed a hostile £1.67bn bid from Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) as at least 15pc below its value.

The Greek economy shrank at an annual pace of 3.7pc in the second quarter of the year, revised official estimates showed on Wednesday.

Whitbread's sales grew faster in the second quarter, as more business travellers and government employees stayed at its Premier Inn budget hotels.

UK house prices edged up 0.2pc in August, confounding expectations of a fall as a strengthening economic recovery helped support demand, Halifax said.