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Last-minute move by Turkish prime minister comes after delivering ‘final warning’ to protesters, stoking expectations of an imminent police operation

US sales of investment grade corporate debt almost slide to a complete halt, with companies accepting concessions to drive deals through

Wendi Deng Murdoch has no equity in News Corp and no voting rights in a company where the Murdoch family controls 39.4% of the voting stock

Directors of Madoff Securities International are being sued by Grant Thornton, liquidators of the group, for breaching their fiduciary duty

Labour attack chancellor over his handling of RBS chief’s departure, as shares in the state-controlled bank tumble

English fashion house suffers fresh blow to fortunes as it reports 28% decline in pre-tax profit while dealing with departure of designer Emma Hill

During more than two days of police questioning Stéphane Richard was moved to a hospital apparently suffering from fatigue

Standard Chartered finance chief Richard Meddings said to be among those indirectly approached as a successor

UK mobile group makes a preliminary approach to Germany’s largest cable operator, which has a market capitalisation of €6.6bn

In bid to keep promise of cost-cutting, mining group and commodity trader brings in John Mack, nicknamed ‘Mack the Knife’ at Morgan Stanley

Turkish PM tells interior minister to end demonstration – as protesters prepare to gather in Istanbul’s Taksim Square day after police broke up crowds

Weidmann tells German constitutional court he fears central bank’s free room for manoeuvre will eventually lead to stability risks

Upholding a complaint from the FT about the ONS decision, the statistics watchdog calls for a review of headline measures of public borrowing and debt

Barclays pushes for industry task force to oversee implementation of reforms recommended by the parliamentary report into banking standards

The UK markets watchdog has launched a preliminary investigation into foreign exchange rates trading, amid alleged manipulation of benchmark rates

Data raise hopes the jobs market will benefit from recent signs of economic recovery, with older workers making up the fastest-growing sector

Finnish group to end deliveries of last homegrown platform, leaving its fortunes resting entirely on Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Mobile software

Hearings are being closely watched as a barometer of German sentiment about eurozone crisis-fighting measures in the run-up to a September election

No terms for the deal were disclosed but two people close to the deal said that Google paid more than $1bn for Waze, which was founded in Israel in 2008

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