CIF has been looking for a buyer since at least May after its future was thrown into doubt by the evaporation of once-cheap funding from credit markets

Europe's second-biggest oil services company by market value has a French chief executive who stands apart from the crowd in many ways

While some believe that a deal with Mitsubishi could save the ailing Danish group, others say a radical change is needed to make the company prosper

Svartholm Warg detained in Cambodia over Swedish conviction for breaching copyright laws in connection with file-sharing website

San Francisco-based fund manager aggressively buys government bonds throughout year, holding most of his employer's €6.1bn of Irish debt

Europe's biggest banana distributor shrugs off impact of costlier fuel and fruit thanks to changing method of ship transportation

Group plans to raise more capital and broaden its shareholder base as it forges ahead with a $2bn deal to acquire London-traded Nomos

Any deal to bring large-scale Chinese investment into UK infrastructure, particularly politically sensitive nuclear industry, could be controversial

The threatened closure of two plants in Sardinia illustrates the crisis facing Italian industry, with output 22 per cent below its 2008 peak

Oil group sells 30% holding in OML 40, which has been shut sinde 2006, for $102m as part of a programme to sell onshore assets in Nigeria