Franking Machine

Indian tractor-maker focuses on overseas growth

With Hurricane Gustav on course to hit the US Gulf, the damage it does to the region's oil facilities could be a "worse case scenario".

With Hurricane Gustav on course to hit the US Gulf, the damage it does to the region's oil facilities could be a "worse case scenario".

Justice Secretary Jack Straw says Labour is best placed to see Britain through the current economic downturn.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw says Labour is best placed to see Britain through the current economic downturn.

Tesco is to change the wording of signs on its fast-track checkouts to avoid any linguistic dispute.

Tesco is to change the wording of signs on its fast-track checkouts to avoid any linguistic dispute.

IT’S time to shutter the home in the Hamptons and head back to the city. But before Manhattan’s moneyed join the traditional Labor Day traffic jam that marks the end of summer, there is art to be seen.

You might have thought the tax problems that threatened to trigger a corporate exodus from the UK earlier this year were over. In May, as The Sunday Times revealed, some of Britain’s top businessmen paid a visit to No 10 to tell Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling that plans to tax intellectual property held outside the UK were the last straw. The battle appeared to have been decided in July, when the Treasury said ministers wouldn’t pursue the idea.

A PRIVATE-EQUITY STYLE investment fund that will put money into agriculture in Africa has raised almost €2 billion (£1.6 billion) from an American pension fund.