AUTOMOBILES 5:59pm

Bentley misses out on incentives

Volkswagen unit unable to reap rewards from credit

AUTOMOBILES 5:21pm

Building blocks to cut output costs

Modular strategy used to create brands from common components

AUTOMOBILES 5:21pm

Modular is way forward for suppliers

Magna designs, makes and ships completed parts to carmakers

Poland Military ©Getty From WORLD 5:14pm

Polish defence spending set to soar

Contracts will test EU push to reduce national favouritism

CONSTRUCTION 3:03pm

Building disputes taking longer to settle

Groups shed jobs and report low levels of business activity

Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks ©Bloomberg AUTOMOBILES 1:53pm

Low fuel prices drive US light truck sales

Carmakers point to efficiency and shrinking size of SUVs

10:28am

Small-cap week, May 18

Electrocomponents, Jarden and Green Dragon Gas featured

BP Full Year Earnings Press Conference...Tony Hayward, chief executive officer of BP Plc., pauses during the company's press conference to announce their full year results in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. BP Plc, Europe's biggest oil company, expects the recovery from last year's recession to be "slow and gradual" as fourth-quarter earnings missed analyst estimates. Photographer: ©Bloomberg Week in Review from ENERGY May 17, 2013

Week in review, May 18

Hayward likes life ‘on the edge’

AUTOMOBILES May 17, 2013

EU car sales inch into positive territory

Early Easter helps carmakers end 18-month downward trend

Cleve West's Bupa garden from the 2008 Chelsea Flower Show ©Derek St Romaine/GPL From UK May 17, 2013

Garden centres look to Chelsea for growth

Businesses hope flower show will encourage buyers after cold spring

From LEX May 17, 2013

European cars: sputtering sales

New car registrations are up, but the market has not fully revved up yet

From WORLD May 17, 2013

Nigerian air force attacks rebel camps

Offensive aims to crush Islamist insurgents

May 17, 2013

Accounting boards draft new leasing rules

Groups will be forced to book trillions of dollars of liabilities

From ENERGY May 17, 2013

Profit warnings hit Australian resources

WorleyParsons joins others in the industry in flagging problems

From ENERGY May 17, 2013

Caterpillar settles with former ERA owners

US company secures $135m cut to purchase price of Chinese group

CHEMICALS May 17, 2013

Dow to fight $1.2bn in price-fixing damages

Company plans to use recent Supreme Court antitrust ruling

AUTOMOBILES May 16, 2013

Honda set for F1 return with McLaren

Japanese carmaker to supply engines from 2015

INDUSTRIAL GOODS May 16, 2013

Invensys to spend £600m on acquisitions

Sale of rail unit allows engineer to return £625m to shareholders

AEROSPACE & DEFENCE May 16, 2013

ANA suffers new Dreamliner problem

Panel overheats during test flight with modified battery

From UK May 16, 2013

UK car manufacturing rises 17% in April

Industry remains bright spot in British economy

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