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US jobs data allay double dip concerns
Fears of a double-dip recession in the US were allayed on Friday by data showing that the private sector had created 235,000 jobs in the past three months

Beijing eyes counterbid for PotashCorp
The Chinese government has backed Sinochem, the state-owned chemicals giant, to pursue a counterbid that could trump BHP Billiton’s $39bn hostile offer for PotashCorp

China and US stage Yellow Sea war games
China and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia

Petrobas prepares to raise up to R$55bn
Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, is preparing to raise as much as R$55bn from minority shareholders in what would be the world’s biggest share sale

Investors buoyed by better US jobs data
Traders are piling into risky bets after a better than expected US labour market report reinforced hopes that the US economy can avoid sliding back into recession.

Buffett and Gates on Chinese mission
Having persuaded many of their billionaire peers in the US into giving away chunks of money, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are travelling to China to host newly minted Chinese tycoons to sell them on the value of philanthropy

BP bill for Gulf oil spill hits $8bn
BP said it had spent almost $2bn in the last month responding to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, even as it plugged the leak, taking its total bill for the catastrophe to $8bn

Lloyd’s brokers weigh up iPads
Lloyd’s of London is to test whether Apple iPads could replace the traditional paper slips containing all the information on bespoke policies sold at the 300-year-old insurance market

Investors  turn to linkers and gold to hedge uncertainty
In 2002, Ben Bernanke deemed deflation such a threat that he referred to Milton Friedman’s notion of handing out cash to stop falling prices

Volatility and poor returns killing equities cult
More market professionals are asking if the brutal de-rating suffered by equities during the past decade means the cult of equity is dying

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