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Former academic who has built Barclays Capital from scratch into a multibillion-pound operation, will take over from John Varley at Barclays’ annual meeting next March

Mark Hurd is to become co-president of software maker Oracle only a month after being forced out as head of Hewlett-Packard over breaches of the computer makers’ code of conduct

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Following are comments by European Union finance ministers ahead of a meeting on Monday to try to agree more details of how to penalise EU budget rule breakers and underline the importance of keeping debt levels low.

Citigroup is at the centre of a dispute among analysts and accounting experts over whether it should set aside funds to cover $50bn of deferred taxes, a move that would reduce its capital buffer and weaken its balance sheet

LONDON/HELSINKI (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is in exclusive talks with Finnish fuel distributor St1 to sell the oil major’s Swedish refinery, both companies said on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) – British buyout firm Graphite Capital is in exclusive talks on two auto industry deals worth a combined $500 million (325 million pounds), potentially selling one business and buying another, people familiar with the situation said.

Australia’s top investment bank warned investors it would miss profit forecasts after weak markets took a toll on its trading and advisory business, sending its shares to a 15-month low.

LONDON (Reuters) – Shares in Cable & Wireless Worldwide rose to their highest level since a profit warning in July after a weekend report that Singapore Telecom was considering a bid for the British operator.

LONDON (Reuters) – Miner Strategic Natural said there was no new information in a weekend press report that sent its shares surging on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) – PricewaterhouseCoopers UK (PWC) , one of Britain’s four biggest accountancy companies, announced plans on Monday to create 800 new jobs as it posted lower profits for the year ended June 2010.

Oracle’s board will meet within days to vote on a deal to bring Mark Hurd to the company in a top role, marking a rapid corporate rehabilitation for the ousted Hewlett-Packard chief executive

A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be “very interested” in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India’s Kingfisher Airlines

CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – The European Union could agree in the next few weeks a law to regulate hedge funds and private equity operators, blamed by some for financial excesses, an EU commissioner said on Saturday.

A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be “very interested” in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India’s Kingfisher Airlines

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