The Swiss bank's chief executive needs to tackle costs with the same rigour of his colleagues at Deutsche Bank

Italian carmaker reports a trading profit from all regions except crisis-hit Europe, with a strong performance from Chrysler in the US

Move entails the French oil group acquiring a 35% stake in two blocks in the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq and becoming a licence operator

The Italian industrial group is out of intensive care and showing signs of recovery but should not try any acrobatics just yet

Italy's troubled defence and industrial group interprets the results as evidence that its restructuring is on track to meet year-end targets

Internet poker players are set to recover hundreds of millions of dollars under a settlement between the US government and two of the world's biggest online gambling companies

Deutsche Bank and UBS, which are caught up in affair over alleged manipulation of key lending rates, reveal higher provisions and sharp profit falls

Russian court rules in favour of a small shareholder in TNK-BP who claimed damages over the UK oil group's abortive alliance with Rosneft

The lowest European automotive demand in almost two decades has forced some manufacturers to act, but there is much more work to be done

Sale of one of the crown jewels of EMI and home to Coldplay and Gorillaz an attempt to overcome the concerns of EU regulators

Renault, Lafarge and Saint-Gobain provide evidence of the damage being inflicted on industrials by the continent's sovereign debt crisis

Ruling in which a TNK-BP shareholder won a $3.1bn suit in Russia highlights how a weak judicial system is used as a weapon in business disputes