House prices ended 2009 5.9 per cent higher than they were a year earlier, according to the Nationwide index, in a sign of the surprising strength of the housing market
Dec 31
The Russian aluminium maker, which is to list in Hong Kong in late January, recorded a $868m loss for the first half of 2009 when revenues fell 55 per cent in its IPO prospectus
Dec 31
Petrofac, the oil services company that has been one of the best performers in the FTSE 100 this year, bucked the weak trend
