Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist shareholder, is believed to be considering whether to launch a boardroom coup at Yahoo! to force the internet search engine to restart talks with Microsoft.

Added: 2008-05-14

Carl Icahn wades into Microsoft-Yahoo! fray

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Rentokil predicts losses at City Link unit

Alan Brown, the new chief executive of Rentokil, rejected calls last night for the parcels and pest control group to be broken up, after the company issued another profits warning for its City Link business.

UK growth forecast cut by IMF

Alistair Darling will today suffer humiliation as the world's leading economic institution slashes its UK growth forecasts and warns that Britain faces the weakest two years of growth since the last recession a decade and a half ago.

US banks Citigroup and Merrill Lynch reveal fresh $15bn loss$

CITIGROUP and Merrill Lynch will heap further pain on Wall Street this week as they reveal additional sub-prime write-downs totalling $15 billion ($