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Lorenzo Giorgianni, the deputy head of the IMF’s policy department, will join Mr Jones’s Tudor Investment Corporation in October, according to sources - May 19, 10:18pm

Britain’s biggest retailer seeks to contain capital expenditure in its sprawling international operations - May 19, 10:17pm

The bonds are the first batch that China Railway is expected to issue as it forges ahead with a blueprint to lay about 30,000km of new tracks - May 19, 09:48pm

Asian companies are paying more than double the price of European assets, relative to earnings as they did three years ago, a study shows - May 19, 09:10pm

The rebels’ fight against Assad will remain confused until the US, Britain and France supply some arms to moderates fighting in Syria - May 19, 08:31pm

The nation’s motives in the region are perfectly comprehensible, relating as they do to climate change, transport and access to resources - May 19, 08:14pm

Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister put Berlin on a collision course with Brussels after warning against anti-dumping duties - May 19, 06:36pm

Local governments and state enterprises have become the agents of both the downswing in growth and increased concerns about financial risk - May 19, 06:32pm

Swedish brand is looking at countries such as Mexico and Brazil after opening its first store in the southern hemisphere this year in Chile - May 19, 05:59pm

Poland is gearing up for its biggest-ever increase in military equipment spending, splashing out $43bn on contracts over the next decade - May 19, 05:14pm

Last month’s bailout led by the International Monetary Fund could be the country’s final chance to avert an economic catastrophe - May 19, 01:07pm

Launches come as Pyongyang condemns the US deployment of an aircraft carrier to take part in joint exercises with South Korean forces - May 19, 01:05pm

Zehra Shahid Hussain, a member of Imran Khan’s reformist party, is shot dead by gunmen ahead of the reopening of 43 polling stations in Karachi - May 19, 11:27am

The UK’s lax and disjointed listing regime has helped to open the door to questionable overseas entrants, changing the make-up of the indices - May 18, 12:04am

Independent committee rejects indicative bid made by the group, consisting of the oligarchs who founded the miner and the government of Kazakhstan - May 17, 10:39pm

Global Emerging Market Leaders fund will carry 4% charge from September - May 17, 06:09pm

Russia’s economy grows at 1.6 per cent in first quarter, its slowest since 2009, after investment and commodity prices fall - May 17, 04:42pm

China’s film censor tells production companies to tone down anti-Japan messages because of a lack of ‘seriousness and dignity’ in the programmes - May 17, 12:44pm

Utility group pays Singapore Power A$824m for a 19.9 per cent holding in SP AusNet, which manages three energy networks in the state of Victoria - May 17, 06:38am

The US group secures a $135m reduction to the purchase price of the Chinese group it bought in 2012, following writedown in January - May 17, 05:22am

French lender issues statement following news that the chief of Rosbank, in which it owns an 82 per cent stake, has been charged with bribery - May 16, 11:42pm

It is not clear how quickly a deal will be reached, and it is possible China could limit what it allows in the hands of foreign regulators - May 16, 11:41pm

Central bank objects to report that losses from central bank’s money printing operations could climb reach 6 per cent of gross domestic product - May 16, 08:12pm

Financial support from tiny gas-rich state overshadows western backing, but is being nudged aside by Saudi Arabia as the prime source of arms to rebels - May 16, 07:09pm

Global business executives remain cautiously optimistic that the world economy will improve in the months ahead, according to latest FT/Economist survey - May 16, 05:01pm