Fighting Fit

Pound and markets fall on economic fears

Shares across London and Asia tumble following steep US losses as sterling continues its fall against the dollar

Moscow office moves to cut jobs at TNK-BP

Oligarchs appear to tighten grip on joint venture with announcement that one in five jobs, many managerial, will go

Indecision paves way for oil price falls

Opec defers decision on fresh production curbs amid rifts among members over adherence to existing agreed cuts in output

Rio cost crackdown

The chief executive of Rio Tinto is to save billions of dollars in a crack-down that could mothball several big mining projects around the world

Grand plans for global energy under threat

The future of green technology has cracks, reserves of lithium would prevent a world of electic cars from being a reality

A tale of two power policies

Britain should be ashamed of what it did to its nuclear industry, not least because Britons invented civil nuclear power

EDF: UK energy shortfall to be filled by gas

Lack of capacity in the nuclear industry means that UK will have to rely on imported natural gas to meet emerging shortfall

Tajik Aluminium fraud claim settled

One of the most expensive lawsuits in British history arose from a fight in Tajikistan for control of an aluminium smelter

Iran and Venezuela link up at talks

Many Opec members, led by Iran and Venezuela, are hoping to push oil price back to $100 a barrel ahead of Algeria meeting

Suppliers resist pressure to slash energy bills

The difference between wholesale energy costs and home fuel bills has widened as household bills could be cut by £200

Allure of the 'noble metal' Argentium

The challenge for Argentium is to attract jewellery buyers in a recession who might be put off by the high price of other metals

Johnson Matthey says profits set to fall by 15%

Profits at the company that makes catalytic converters for cars could fall in the next six months as carmakers cut production

Business big shot: Michael Kowalski of Tiffany

Breakfast at Tiffany's is likely to be gruel for chief executive as the effects of the economic downturn hit expensive jewellery

Sterling performance is challenged after 700 years

Argentium is a tarnish-resistant alloy that is purer and stronger than sterling, hard as steel and does not tarnish with age

Investor fury as BHP ends Rio chase

Company infuriated its shareholders by revealing that it had spent $450m on the failed deal in a bonanza for advisers