Vinci: dreams and nightmares
Nobody is building much in France these days. Bad news, then, for the country’s largest construction company European Companies News…
Gherkin owners launch fightback
British private equity group Evans Randall, which co-owns the building with IVG Private Funds of Germany, has offered to buy the German investors out European Companies News…
Buoyant market for yachts as rich return
Numbers of superyachts ordered at highest level since the financial crisis after a spike in demand from American and Russian tycoons European Companies News…
Cocos: return of toxic bubble-era stuff
No new AT1 issues are being shown round the market as bond buyers’ extreme greed is overcome by extreme fear, but John Dizard doubts this will last European Companies News…
Iliad founder sets off on $15bn US odyssey
French billionaire Xavier Niel’s transatlantic play for the fourth-largest US mobile operator has raised doubts among analysts over the strategy behind it European Companies News…
Beware creep of policy into price-setting
Investors should buy more when stocks are cheap and cut back when, as now, they are expensive – but that is to reckon without human nature European Companies News…
Week in review, August 2
Featuring oil majors, Airbus, and UK and European banks European Companies News…
How the Gherkin was pickled
This is no ordinary victim of the credit crunch: one of the world’s most instantly recognisable buildings is in good shape and is fully let European Companies News…
Iberia adds to fleet as outlook improves
IAG reiterates profit guidance as Iberia restructuring continues to have ‘a positive impact’ and British Airways posts a 34% rise in operating profit European Companies News…
Russian groups convert euro reserves
Heightened worries among oligarchs have precipitated the conversion of euro holdings into Asian currencies following the latest round of sanctions European Companies News…
