Losses at Royal Bank of Scotland narrowed sharply last year, the state-rescued lender said Thursday as it prepared to dish out bonuses reportedly totalling 1.6 billion pounds. RBS suffered a net loss of 3.6 billion pounds in 2009 -- a major improvement on a record shortfall of 24.3 ...

France Telecom on Thursday reported a slide in 2009 net earnings and sales and presented a new management team to help revamp an operation shaken by a wave of employee suicides. The group, privatised with a hybrid internal structure of private and state-sector staff, reported a 26.3 percent fall ...

France Telecom reported a 26.3-percent slump in net annual profit on Thursday, saying its priorities were to push on with deep reforms, with attention to employment conditions after a crisis over suicides. The group, privatised with a hybrid internal structure of private and state-sector staff, reported a net profit ...

News Corp in talks to buy other 50 percent of SmartMoney from Hearst CorpNews Corp.'s Dow Jones unit says it's in talks to buy the 50 percent of SmartMoney magazine that its partner Hearst Corp. owns. The two have shared ownership of the personal finance magazine since 1991 ...