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Industrial production in the eurozone grows at its fastest level for over 20 years in January, amid signs of a far more sustained recovery than had been seen previously

Global Markets Overview: Many analysts had suggested that once the S&P breached 1,150, as it did on Friday, that would reinvigorate traders and help push stocks higher

Norwegian fertiliser producer says it will not increase its all-cash $4.1bn offer for US Terra, paving the way for US CF Industries‘ rival $4.7bn cash-and-shares offer to acquire the company

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, told the Japanese parliament that the yen was too strong given the state of the country’s economic recovery

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are to try to hammer out a compromise deal over European Union reforms that the US and UK believe could damage the hedge fund and private equity industries

A one-year probe into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found ‘credible evidence’ that top executives, including the former chief Dick Fuld, approved misleading financial statements and used an ‘accounting gimmick’ to flatter results

London has lost its crown as the pre-eminent home of banking and finance, as it tied for the first time with New York in the latest ranking of financial centres

The capital market issue would mark a significant departure for one of the world’s largest and most profitable commodities traders, which has traditionally relied on bank credit lines

Global Markets Overview: China reawakens fears over monetary tightening, US data boost stocks

Sir Brian Pitman, the former chairman and chief executive of Lloyds TSB and one of the most respected bankers of his generation, has died suddenly at the age of 78

Pressure from US corporate governance activists is forcing companies to dismantle poison pill measures designed to protect them from unwanted takeover attention

For Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, the $7bn deal for a set of assets from Devon Energy of the US, including licences in the oil-rich waters off the coast of Brazil is a satisfying move. It also looks like a vindication of BP’s much criticised business model

Riot police fired teargas at stone-throwing demonstrators in central Athens as a peaceful march by workers staging a 24-hour strike ended in disarray

Google’s $750m acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob faces a potential challenge by regulators concerned about the search company’s expanding reach

An ex-employee of HSBC stole the details of 24,000 clients from a branch in Switzerland, in a hugely embarrassing theft of data for which the bank apologised unreservedly

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects to help cement an energy partnership

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and other senior figures in France’s governing UMP party are stepping up their contacts with Conservative leader David Cameron and his team

Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich strengthens his grip on power as a new governing coalition is agreed in parliament and one of his loyalists, Mykola Azarov, is appointed prime minister

Europe’s largest carmaker announces plans to launch a convertible bond issue alongside its multibillion-euro capital increase, in a move to woo investors wary of equity issues

Pressure on Beijing to begin raising interest rates and to allow the renminbi to appreciate against the US dollar is set to rise as inflation jumped 2.7 per cent last month from a year before