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GM repays €1.5 billion German bridging loan

The German Chancellor says the taxpayer has been left unscathed - and demands a thank-you letter from the car giant

Reliance Industries bids for LyondellBasell

Indian group controlled by Mukesh Ambani has offered as much as £12 billion to buy Dutch-American chemicals maker

Tata casts net wide as it seeks new chairman

Indian giant prepared to look outside the family, outside the company and outside the country for successor to Ratan Tata

Buyers balk at 'world's most expensive show'

New deals at the Dubai Air Show fall short of previous years as economic reality bites deeper into airline industry

Steelmakers ask EU to bar BHP and Rio venture

Eurofer, representing Europe's biggest steel producers, wants anti-trust inspectors to block iron ore partnership

GM to repay $6.7bn in government bailout funds

The American carmaker reveals a smaller-than-expected loss in its first results since emerging from bankruptcy in July

Rexam moves former finance boss up to top job

Leslie Van de Walle is departing as chief executive after three years in the job, to be replaced by Graham Chipchase

From a golden hello to a comfortable goodbye

Leslie Van de Walle is managing the neat trick of compensation while insisting he is going entirely of his own accord

Rexam chief retires with £1.6 million payoff

Leslie Van de Walle denies he has been ousted as chief executive of the world's biggest maker of drink cans

GM refused bailout funds from Germany

Car giant must refinance its European business, including Vauxhall and Opel, after its U-turn on plans to sell

Reliance plans swoop on LyondellBasell

India's biggest company weighs up multibillion-dollar swoop on the American assets of the collapsed chemicals group

Industries demand action over scrap metal thieves

Lobbyists want the Government to amend the Scrap Metal Dealers Act, so that dealers could not pay for scrap with cash

Sultan of scrap takes home £9m in wages

Philip Sheppard, who runs European Metal Recycling, paid himself the massive sum despite a collapse in commodity prices

GM Europe president quits after Opel U-Turn

Carl-Peter Forster is understood to have resigned as president after GM’s decision to retain ownership of GM Europe