1:18pm

Italy: joke backfires

The head of the populist Five Star Movement, comedian Beppe Grillo ©AFP

Post-election gridlock may be worse than instability

4:05pm

Banks’ risk weighted assets

Banks must provide more clarity about their risk weights

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QBE: bid to be valued once more

Transition to well-functioning global insurance company long overdue

3:43pm

Vivendi: unrewarded patience

Progress at French media and telecoms group is proving slow

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Apple: core arguments

Brand of shareholder friendliness more technical than substantive

6:51pm

Deutsche Börse: aisle be seeing you

CME’s interest in DB lifts sector’s mating game to a new level

Waterstones bookstore, Picadilly, central London. 10:25pm

Barnes & Noble: towards some novel ideas

Perhaps the founders aren’t thinking creatively enough

8:09pm

Reckitt Benckiser: motorcycle maintenance

The pharma side is proving a creaky sidecar

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Elan / Royalty Pharma: gone shopping

Which investment banker-turned-pharma executive will investors choose to back?

Feb 25, 2013

Hong Kong property: bubbling up

Regulators have little chance of stemming tide of liquidity into property