1:22pm

EADS: the new normal

airbus A350 XWB

Europe’s aerospace and defence champion doing just fine without BAE

3:43pm

Amadeus IT: business class

Airline IT and reservations group doing better than most airlines

Mark Tucker 11:29am

AIA: best in class

Asian insurance company goes from strength to strength

Feb 26, 2013

Risk-weighted assets: faith and clarity

Banks must be more open about their risk weights to counter suspicions

Nomac Drilling Corp. floorman Matthew Brown, right, steadies a section of drill pipe as floorman Richard Lane cleans the connection during natural gas drilling operations for Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Companies are spending billions to dislodge natural gas from a band of shale-sedimentary rock called the Marcellus shale that underlies Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. The band of rock, so designated because it pokes through near a city of that name in northern New York, may contain 262 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates. ©Bloomberg 11:47pm

Chesapeake: rock and hard places

Energy group caught between debt and low gas prices is a motivated seller

Feb 26, 2013

Vivendi: unrewarded patience

Progress at French media and telecoms group is slow

A financial trader monitors his computer screens inside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange 7:40pm

LBOs and bonds: animal antidote

Change of control clauses may offer only limited protection to investors

Feb 26, 2013

QBE: bid to be valued once more

Transition to well-functioning global insurance group long overdue

The head of the populist Five Star Movement, comedian Beppe Grillo ©AFP Feb 26, 2013

Italy: joke backfires

Post-election gridlock may be worse than instability

Feb 25, 2013

Deutsche Börse: aisle be seeing you

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