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Barack Obama (1180 news)

11:52 Obama presses Congress to pass aid to homeowners : WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed U.S. lawmakers to pass his proposal to provide up to $10 billion in aid to struggling homeowners, saying a failure ...

18:08 US unemployment numbers: what have we learned?

16:21 U.S. job growth surges, jobless rate drops to 8.3 perce

Ben Bernanke (859 news)

16:12 Ben Bernanke testifies to Congress on US economy – live : US Federal Reserve chairman expected to tell Senate Budget Committee he plans to keep interest rates at super-low level10.53am: The questions are now about the tax cuts ...

21:04 Bernanke Says He Won't Tolerate Inflation to Boost Empl

02:25 Bernanke's Own Words on Interest Rates

Alistair Darling (725 news)

10:19 Fred Goodwin's knighthood: Alistair Darling leads the b : Leading figures from the business world also voiced their disquiet, with Lord Digby Jones, the former head of the CBI, saying there was a 'faint whiff of the lynch mob' about the moveFormer chancellor ...

22:15 Alistair Darling and Charles Kennedy lined up for Scott

23:26 We need to reform the Bank of England, not break it | A

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Gordon Brown (600 news)

21:30 Gordon Brown did not save the world but he saved the UK : When the moment of maximum danger came, Brown had the right diagnosis and did largely the right thingsIt must be the most famous slip of the tongue in Westminster's recent history. Just before Christmas ...

18:41 Gordon Brown | Europe's three-dimensional crisis

21:36 America overcomes the debt crisis as Britain sinks deep

Mervyn King (590 news)

12:08 Carbon bubble: Bank of England's opportunity to tackle : Bank's willingness to consider fossil fuel exposure as a risk to financial stability will serve as an important test of whether anything has been learned from the sub-prime crisisThe depth ...

22:25 Economy set for another £50bn boost as Sir Mervyn King

22:58 London Olympic Games' security is key to aiding the rec

John Lewis (408 news)

00:42 Words won't change capitalism. So be daring and do some : Western governments must replace their redundant inflation targets with a target for the growth of the value of the goods and service they produceGreat news. All three party leaders are ...

21:46 Letters: John Lewis model for staff ownership

22:51 Nick Clegg plays the John Lewis card among the City's '

Bernard Madoff (374 news)

18:54 Funds sue Deutsche Bank over Bernard Madoff claims deal : Deutsche Bank has been sued by two hedge funds who allege Germany's biggest bank has pulled out of a $1bn (£674m) agreement to buy claims the funds have for losses incurred investing ...

01:16 Madoff's financial fraud 'dates back to the 1970s'

17:02 SEC fails to sack any staff over Madoff

Jean Claude Trichet (332 news)

21:08 Trichet joins EADS board amid reshuffle : PARIS (Reuters) - The former head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, was nominated to the board of EADS on Thursday as the Franco-German-led ...

23:42 Draghi over-interpreted on bond buys, says Trichet

01:22 ECB's Trichet - low inflation for 10 years

Harry Potter (103 news)

Stelios Haji-Ioannou (93 news)

22:17 EasyJet chairman hits back Sir Stelios' claims : EasyJet chairman Sir Mike Rake has delivered his strongest rebuttal yet to what he termed the "numerous inaccuracies and attacks on individuals" from the airline's founder Sir Stelios ...

19:59 EasyJet chairman hits back at attacks by company's foun

19:10 Is Sir Stelios telling the whole story in easyJet execu

Richard Branson (92 news)

14:16 Cannabis taxation: a win-win all round, Richard Branson : Virgin boss appears before Commons committee to argue for regulation of drug and diversion of resources to crime-fightingThe market for cannabis in Britain should be regulated and taxed, and responsibility ...

22:11 Richard Branson expected to tell MPs: it's time to end

18:03 Drugs inquiry to hear evidence from Richard Branson

Alistair Osborne (85 news)

22:21 BP: Big Oil is never far from trouble : After a year that brought BP to its knees, its shareholders are about to receive a dividend. They should enjoy it while they can, because the stakes are getting higher, says Alistair ...

09:16 Pre-Budget report: a guide to what Alistair Darling act

22:37 Ferrovial deserves some sympathy

iPod (82 news)

Philip Green (61 news)

18:51 Why shops matter | Peter Preston : High streets define communities, offering us a break from routine and a social reference pointOh tidings of despond and woe! Thomas Cook shuts hundreds of its travel shops. Philip ...

08:40 Top Shop and BHS owner plans to close 10% of stores

23:00 Sir Philip Green sees red over poor trading update

Michael Geoghegan (60 news)

05:19 Nama chief led bank during mis-selling scandal : Nama's new Advisory Group boss Michael Geoghegan led banking giant HSBC while mis-selling to thousands of pensioners occurred at one of its businesses.

12:26 Ex-HSBC chief has run rule over NAMA strategy

23:36 HSBC chief drops HK relocation plan

Joe Lewis (58 news)

23:39 Mitchells & Butlers investors take aim at billionaire i : Independent shareholders in Mitchells & Butlers yesterday fired a shot across the bows of the yacht-owning billionaire investor with a protest vote against his boardroom placemen.

14:58 Shareholders on alert over Mitchells & Butlers meeting

14:36 Joe Lewis raises stake in M&B

The Queen (53 news)

14:09 The Business podcast: Fred Goodwin's knighthood shredde : The former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland will now be known as plain old Fred Goodwin after being stripped of his knighthood by the Queen after ...

08:06 Former RBS chief executive loses knighthood

22:28 A reputation shredded: Sir Fred loses his knighthood

Richard Lambert (53 news)

23:18 Margareta Pagano: Dyson and Portas are not the answer t : Shortly after last year's election, the German ambassador to London hosted a discussion between the former head of the CBI, Richard Lambert, and the TUC boss, Brendan Barber, on ...

20:42 Awkward birth for Bank of England's financial policy co

23:25 Richard Lambert quits Bank financial policy role

Mike Ashley (52 news)

23:54 Mike Ashley's latest outburst fails to win people over : "A bunch of cry babies" - that was how Sports Direct International chief executive Mike Ashley described City investors in a typically robust outburst in 2007.

21:04 Sports Direct offers Mike Ashley £12m incentive plan

18:13 Mike Ashley scores with £12m Sports Direct scheme