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Police vehicles are parked in front of Deutsche Bank headquarters as roughly 170 criminal police officers, prosecutors and tax inspectors searched Deutsche Bank offices in and around Frankfurt, Germany. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

German police raid Deutsche Bank in ‘Panama Papers’ graft probe

The Frankfurt prosecutors said their probe was focusing on two Deutsche Bank employees aged 50 and 46, as well as several unnamed senior staff members

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ARCHIVES: Broke SAA goes on spending spree

Since November, the new airline boss has splurged on new hires and brought in expensive consultants

Investors saddled with reform risk

New regulations will require investors to bear the risk of South African bank failures.

Inside information favours those setting the gold price.

Banks bear brunt of gold-fix blame

If guilty, the five major institutions could be sued in SA for deals done locally

Mellow yellow: Gold saw a slight rise and held firm this week and the SPDR Gold Trust said its holdings rose by 3.89 tonnes on Tuesday.

Gold fix study indicates a decade of manipulation

A research paper has raised the possibility that banks have been working together to manipulate the London gold fix rate.

New bribery charges a thorn in Wal-Mart’s side

<em>The New York Times</em> has revealed that Wal-Mart covered up findings of an internal probe that proved its Mexican subsidiary bribed officials.

Stocks take another dive on Greek default fears

Stocks slid again as Europe struggled to contain a debt crisis in Greece that is threatening to plunge the continent back into recession.

Banks suffer under Greek default fears

Mounting fears over the possibility of a Greek debt default and signs of division within Europe’s policymaking circles sent bank stocks sharply lower.

Bankers plot course as sovereign debt clouds loom

Europe’s top banks are due to meet to share insights on whether the latest sovereign debt crisis squall could yet turn into a financial market storm.

A country on the make

A golden decade is predicted in Germany, which has made a remarkable comeback.

Wall Street puts its money behind Obama

Wall Street is putting its money behind Democrat Barack Obama for president, despite worries that his administration would raise taxes and take a tougher line on trade and…

New PM Putin vows to curb inflation, cut taxes

Vladimir Putin on Thursday took over as Russia’s Prime Minister a day after leaving the Kremlin and pledged to curb inflation and cut taxes to make Russia a leading economic…

Tiger economies are snapping at US heels

China and India and are moving toward becoming the biggest economies in the world: with 2,4-billion people, or 40% of the world’s population and annual GDP growth rates of…

Ogilvy win ends Tiger’s streak

Australian Geoff Ogilvy parred his final nine holes on Monday, including a crucial chip-in at the 13th, to win the World Golf Championships CA Championship and end Tiger Woods’s…

Carlyle Capital in default, on brink of collapse

An affiliate of United States-based buyout firm Carlyle Group has defaulted on about ,6-billion of debt and expects its lenders to seize remaining assets as the global credit…

Fed slashes US rates in bid to thwart recession

The United States Federal Reserve on Tuesday slashed a key interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point, the biggest cut in more than 23 years, after a two-day…

EU walks business tightrope in climate plans

The European Union’s exective commission fine-tuned a blueprint to slash the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions amid lobbying on Tuesday over details which environmentalists said…

China’s booming budget hotels profit from no frills

German engineer Michael Bosch is not fazed by the lack of a gym and other creature comforts at his budget hotel in a converted Shanghai office building. He’s stayed at such…

London ritual dating from 1919 sets price of gold

When gold reached dizzying heights above a troy ounce in recent weeks, it cast a spotlight on a ritual that has taken place in London for the past 88 years. Twice a day,…

‘Retirement’ of Merrill chief causes jitters

Merrill Lynch parted company on Tuesdya with its chief executive, Stan O’Neal, leaving the investment bank’s leadership in a state of limbo and prompting unease on Wall Street.…