| UK Financial News |
| Mystery bidder circling Clapham House |
| Owner of Gourmet Burger Kitchen declines to comment on identity of suitor and cautions there is no certainty that a formal offer would be made |
| Upbeat GKN breaks new ground |
| In the third of a series of interviews with UK corporate leaders, Sir Kevin Smith, chief executive of GKN, tells Michael Kavanagh that the engineering group is back on the acquisition trail after the recession took its toll |
| Travis Perkins resumes dividends |
| The builders' merchant returns to dividend payments after a two year hiatus, as it overcame a weather-blighted start of the year to beat market expectations for the first half of 2010 |
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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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