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Simon Watkins, Mail on Sunday11 November 2007, 2:33pm Chat | Vote | Guide Fears that an economic downturn and the bloodbath in the banking sector could lead to a flood of huge pay-offs for executives have prompted major shareholder groups to rethink their rules on boardroom packages. Big money: O'Neal is set to receive £100m despite his failure at Merrill Lynch WANT TO KNOW MORE? Top bosses get 100 times average pay POLL: Should greedy, second-rate bosses be forced  ...

Simon Watkins, Lisa Buckingham and Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday11 November 2007, 3:12pm Chat | Vote | Guide | Calculate Barclays is expected to bring forward its latest trading statement, possibly to as early as this week, in an effort to calm the panic that gripped its share price on Friday. Rumours denied: the bank said that Barclays' president Bob Diamond is not about to fall on his sword WANT TO KNOW MORE? MARKET DATA: Barclays' share price Economic gloom as credit  ...

Neil Craven, Mail on Sunday11 November 2007, 2:58pm Chat | Vote | Guide | Calculate Property magnate Robert Tchenguiz, who has a 10% stake in Sainsbury's, plans to hold talks with the board of the supermarket giant to discuss selling part of its store portfolio. WANT TO KNOW MORE? Sainsbury shares crash as Qataris pull out MARKET DATA: Sainsbury's share price POLL: Have Sainsbury's s ...

Ben Marlow and Tom McGhie, Mail on Sunday11 November 2007, 2:47pm Chat | Vote | Guide | Calculate British Airways and American private equity firm TPG have secured funding for their joint £2.3bn bid for Spanish airline Iberia, which is now expected in the next fortnight. WANT TO KNOW MORE? MARKET DATA: British Airways share price BA cuts deliver record summer Credit crunch thro ...

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - BHP Billiton PLC has lined up a 70 bln usd (33 bln stg) financing package to bolster its 67 bln stg takeover approach for rival miner Rio Tinto PLC, Saturday's Financial Times reported. Citing market sources, it said BHP's arrangement of debt facilities through Citigroup pointed to the group getting ready to launch a hostile bid for Rio. It said BHP declined to comme ...

11 November 2007, 12:27pm Norcros joined the stock market only this summer, since then its shares have fallen from a flotation price of 78p to 69p. WANT TO KNOW MORE? UK shares tumble on world credit fears The UK economy: from boom to bust Economy fear as John Lewis sees slump OTHER STORIES Market report: Friday close Newspaper and magazine share tips Yesterday's trading: FTSE  ...

HANOI (Thomson Financial) - There's a real estate boom happening in communist Vietnam, where prices are soaring on properties yet to be built and investors are camping in the streets to get first chance to buy. Western-style suburbs and apartment blocks are sprouting up, driven by more than 8 percent annual economic growth and a stock market that has given investors ready cash to spend. Realtors ...

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China Development Bank, one of the country's major policy banks, built a stake of under 1 pct in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto in the past week, just prior to BHP Billiton's announcement of an unsolicited bid for Rio Tinto, the UK's Telegraph newspaper reported. The report said CDB was found to have been on the Rio Tinto share register following the announcement of the BH ...

By Caren Bohan CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday she would be willing to support a third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran if Tehran continues to resist demands to halt sensitive nuclear work. Merkel, in a visit to Bush's ranch in Crawford, also said she would consider possible cuts in her country's brisk trade flows with  ...

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-11-10 06:50 GMT: Stocks fall on credit, economic worries