Central and eastern European television markets will recover the losses made during the downturn by 2012, and big international players such as News Corp and RTL will miss opportunities for a return to growth, the chief executive of CME, one of the biggest broadcasters in the region, told the Financial Times.

Central bankers like to give the impression of swan-like serenity, even if there is a lot of paddling going on underwater. For Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, stressing continuity and calm has been an important part of combating the global economic crisis.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the world's biggest but most secretive state-controlled investment funds, made a small but significant step towards better disclosure by publishing its first annual review this week.

(Reuters) - Package delivery giant FedEx Corp (FDX.N) raised its outlook and posted sharply higher profit, but its shares fell as its domestic volume numbers disappointed investors' hopes for a U.S. economic recovery.

Raj Rajagopal will graduate from business school in May and he's currently looking for a job. But don't expect the Cornell University student to get a call anytime soon from Warren Buffett.

London's hedge fund and private equity industry won a last-minute reprieve from contentious new European regulations on Tuesday, after Gordon Brown pleaded that the issue be shelved until after the general election.

WASHINGTON - Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?

Commerzbank on Tuesday reported trading losses of €561m in the last three months of 2009, forcing Germany's second-largest bank to report a worse-than-expected net loss of €1.9bn ($2.6bn) for the period.

The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's search engine and its search-advertising service.

Dubai's decision in November 2009 to restructure the debts of one its largest state-owned conglomerates was an unexpected bombshell for financial markets, and capped an inglorious year for the Arab Gulf's corporate world.

Saudi Arabia's oil exports to the US last year sank below 1m barrels a day for the first time in two decades just as China's purchases climbed above that level, highlighting a shift in the geopolitics of oil from west to east.

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakh state oil company KazMunaiGas wants to acquire a stake in Karachaganak, a gas condensate project led by BG (BG.L) and Eni (ENI.MI), KazMunaiGas head Kairgeldy Kabyldin said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - There's only one Warren Buffett to go around, and non-U.S. investors will get less of him this year.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc reported lower stakes in ConocoPhillips, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble Co in the fourth quarter, reducing several of its biggest investments as it prepared to complete its takeover of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.