| UK Financial News |
| Merlin still open to listing |
| The Blackstone-owned theme park operator holds out the prospect that it may revive plans for a stock exchange listing after reporting a 16% rise in annual earnings |
| Liberty demerger heralds new era |
| Liberty International's proposed demerger of its £6.1bn property empire marks the beginning of a new era for the UK real estate investment trust sector |
| IP's GDF deal 'fell on valuations' |
| The UK-based electricity group said merger talks with GDF Suez foundered because the companies were unable to agree terms |
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| World Financial News |
| Copenhagen talks enter 'new phase' |
| Copenhagen climate conference enters a 'new phase' as ministers join in intensive negotiations to deliver an agreement by the end of the week, the president of the meeting says |
| Obama presses banks to boost lending |
| President Obama told the US's top bankers that they had a 'special responsibility' to help spur on the economic recovery after they received government bail-outs last year, urging them to increase lending to small businesses and mortgage refinancing |
| Darling defies threats on bonus tax |
| The chancellor has warned he will not water down his 50 per cent supertax on bonuses or offer special deals after brokers and banks threatened to move staff out of the UK |
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