In Tune

BHP bid for Rio Tinto investigated by EU

Europe has begun a full investigation into BHP Billiton's proposed $170 billion takeover of Rio Tinto, its major rival

Qatari's make fresh swoop on Sainsbury's shares

Retailer shares rally after QIA raises its stake in Britain's third largest supermarket chain to 26 per cent

Ex Airbus boss ‘charged with insider trading’

Gustav Humbert has been charged with insider trading at the planemaker’s parent company EADS, according to sources

Trichet fears worst for eurozone inflation

Mounting pressures over 15-nation eurozone lead to strongest hint yet that ECB could raise interest rates

Tempus analysis: Wilting Rose

The collapse in food and general merchandise sales for Marks & Spencer in the past three months is startling

EBay braced for copycat lawsuits over fakes

More designers are likely to sue the internet retailing giant after a French court ordered eBay to pay £31 million to LVMH

HMV pierces gloom on 25% profit rise

Chief executive says the music and video games retailer is beating targets laid out in recovery programme last year

Tempus analysis: Pile driver

Four directors ousted in UBS shake-up

Changes at UBS, currently at the centre of a tax probe in the US, follow criticism of ex-chairman Marcel Ospel

LVMH wins €40m fight with eBay over fakes

The online auctioneer is found guilty of failing to keep counterfeit goods, such as Louis Vuitton handbags, off the site

France Télécom withdraws TeliaSonera's offer

Future of TeliaSonera, the Nordic telecommunications provider, unclear after France Télécom withdraws merger proposal

Rate rise likely as eurozone inflation soars

Eurozone inflation surged to a record high of 4 per cent last month, leaving markets braced for rise in interest rates

ASOS firmly in fashion as profits soar 90%

Online clothing retailer defies doom and gloom on the high street with record results and says sales are up 95% since April

Tempus analysis: On trend

Ireland teetering towards recession

The Republic's Economic and Social Research Institute forecasts a recession and a return to net emigration

Economic woes hit Europe and US advertising

A leading media buyer will wipe $600m from growth forecasts as concerns over the credit crunch hit marketing budgets

Mandelson warns shareholders on TNK-BP row

European Trade Commissioner accuses Russians with a stake in the oil joint venture of menacing behaviour at EU-Russia summit

Storm clouds gather over UK's last gas frontier

A dispute over the exploitation of West Shetlands gasfields is hindering the potential for fresh offshore supplies of fuel

Equity issue by Fortis drives down its shares

More than €4.3 billion wiped off the market value of Belgian-Dutch financial services group after €1.5 billion cash-call

Obama tells Tesco to talk to US unions

Democratic presidential hopeful has written to Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy pressing for engagement with furious US staff