ONE of Scotland's largest shopping centres has been bought in a cut-price, £300 million deal.

JUST when you thought the nightmare of massive defaults on US subprime mortgages was behind us, it is set to return next year, like the sequel of some X-rated horror film.

CAIRN Energy, Scotland's biggest oil company, is to become the first explorer to move into Greenland after securing a drilling rig for next summer.

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SCOTTISH & Southern Energy has reinforced its position as the UK's largest streetlight manager after winning a £225 million contract in the south of England.

THE future ownership of Edinburgh and Glasgow airports is uncertain, after owner BAA won its appeal against a ruling it should sell one of them.

CHINA'S government is targeting 8 per cent growth next year as the global economy recovers, the country's industry minister said yesterday.

ROYAL Bank of Scotland has provided a £125 million refinance package to GulfMark Offshore as it anticipates a wave of deals in the oil and gas sector.

THE fate of five Wesley Owen shops in Scotland was left in doubt last night after administrators began selling off parts of the Christian bookshop chain.

UNDER pressure transport company National Express, which recently forfeited the loss-making East Coast mainline rail franchise between Edinburgh and London, yesterday reveale

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ATOS Origin, the information technology services firm, has won a £40 million contract with Scottish Enterprise (SE) and Skills Development Scotland (SDS) und

DEUTSCHE Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Australia's Macquarie are the remaining runners in the race to buy RBS Sempra, the joint venture commodities trading business that is up

THE London Stock Exchange yesterday confirmed a deal to buy its loss-making rival Turquoise.

TESCO Bank chief executive Benny Higgins intends to launch an assault on the mortgage market by the end of next year, as he looks to capitalise on the giant retailer's nam

FARMERS who have sold their entitlement to single farm payment (SFP) could return to the subsidy fold when new European Union support arrangements come into play after

NFU Scotland's two vice- presidents, Nigel Miller and Allan Bowie, will be returned unopposed at the union's annual meeting at St Andrews in February.

THE British economy, believed to have just moved out of recession this quarter, is unlikely to see GDP reach pre-recession levels even by the end of 2011, the Confederation o