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RBS in talks to sell £2bn stake in Bank of China

Steven Hester, the bank's new chief executive, is reported to have met executives from the Chinese bank and regulators

China cutbacks are a warning for aerospace

Instruction from Beijing could be devastating for Boeing, Airbus and Rolls-Royce and their hundreds of small suppliers

The Dragon blows commodity bubbles: Leo Lewis on Asia

Bullish little oddities have been surfacing across Asia, and in the background are the hunger pangs of the Dragon

Fire dies under China’s once booming factories

PMI survey from Hong Kong broker CLSA shows economy close to recession, factories closing and output contracting

Chinese manufacturing on brink of recession

Factories go silent after order books run dry as output contracts at record pace and unemployment continues to rise

China's share index ends year down 65%

Chinese stocks are the world's worst performers, losing $3 trillion, while other Asian markets suffer record falls

Car production faces global fall until 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers is forecasting a 17% drop in the US to 10.8m cars and a 12% fall in the EU to 15.5m vehicles

Crunch ‘to hasten rise of China’

Forecast predicts China will become the world’s largest economy within a decade, up to 11 years earlier than previously expected

Opec under pressure as demand drops

China's once ravenous hunger for energy is weakening at a record rate, compounding pressure on Opec to slash oil production