Investors expect Spain to become the fourth euro member to need external funding as borrowing costs surge to levels too punitive for the nation to finance its needs on capital markets.

London: London Stock Exchange Group Plc is holding talks with LCH Clearnet Group Ltd to buy all or part of the world’s biggest clearinghouse for swaps, as increased global regulation of derivatives makes the business more profitable.

JESSICA KÜRTEN went on the offensive again this week in her battle with the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) over the drugs case involving Castle Forbes Maike.

JESSICA Kurten’s lawyer Dr Ulf Walz on Tuesday sent a letter to the FEI complaining at the decision of its Paris lab, the LCH, to bar her representative Dr Laurent Bigler from witnessing the analysis of a B sample taken from Castle Forbes Maike.