- BASF cutbacks will affect 20,000 staff
- Solarworld plans to bid for Opel sites
- OECD downbeat on Spain's return to growth
- European stocks depressed by heavyweights
- Sanofi reaches settlements on generics
- London shares ease on bank sector nerves
- European banks tumble as gloom deepens
- Severstal freezes $8bn spending programme
- London lower as earnings news stays bleak
- Dassault and Alcatel in Thales stake talks
- Chi-X buys market data group Cicada
- Merckle makes plea for government bail-out
- Billionaire Zaleski looks to refinance debts
- Sharp fall in French business confidence
- Top UBS bankers will not get 2008 bonus
- FTSE lower as economic outlook darkens
- Istanbul's optimism wearing thin
- Former French minister poised to head Atos
- German billionaire Merckle hit by VW bet
- European companies launch supply chain rescues
- Austria's OMV reduces output targets
- UBS fund in $500m Mideast joint foray
- Dexia sells FSA after heavy quarterly loss
- Conti up 50% after takeover boost
- Nokia warns handset sales to shrink in 2009
- EADS hit by new €340m military charge
- Telefónica boosted by LatAm expansion
- Eurozone enters first recession
- European shares rally across the board
- France defies recession expectations
- FTSE lifted by Wall Street rally
- Loan drought hits European suppliers
- Repsol profits down after falls in production
- European stocks slide on growth fears
- Germany slides into recession
- FTSE falls on fresh growth fears
- Maersk reports fall in volumes on Asia-Europe route
- UBS blow as US indicts wealth management head
- Europe faces paradox of cheap shares with need for cash
- UniCredit profits beat expectations
- European equities fall as earnings disappoint
- Swiss Life will not meet targets
- Credit terms tied to companies' risk
- Debt breaches double those of previous year
- Lufthansa ends talks with struggling SAS
- SWX Europe moves out of London
- Julius Baer reports new flow of funds
- European car dealers thrown lifelines
- Aer Lingus and unions invited to talks
- European bosses close gap on US salaries
- Intesa SanPaolo scraps dividend
- European shares slide on growth fears
- German investor confidences rebounds
- FTSE falls as earnings worries grow
- Taylor Wimpey and CRH add to builders' woes
- Dresdner woes hit Allianz again
- Santander to launch €7.2bn rights issue
- Chinese spending plan boosts London miners