DEIRDRE McQUILLAN. They call him Mr Bread & Butter, but Karl Heinz Muller is one of the most powerful fashion figures in Germany and mastermind of the biggest urban and streetwear trade show in Europe.

A round-up of today's other stories in brief... Why Anglo's former lawyers might have uneasy moments. THE RECENT charges brought against Se�n FitzPatrick and two other former directors of Anglo Irish Bank must be leaving the bank's former corporate ...

DANNY O'BRIEN. WIRED: Even when the project was obviously careering into a ditch of delays, unwanted features, and unusable interfaces, no one was able to stop it.

China up one percent overnight, despite poor manufacturing stats. Europe continues to bite Asia. China reported slower manufacturing activity in July, though "official" Chinese PMI is still showing expansion, at 50.1, down from 50.2 in June.

Whitbread hurt by UBS downgrade. By Bryce Elder. The London market tested a three-month high but trading uncertainties meant Whitbread was left behind.

The German DAX 30 index was up 0.18 percent or 12.03 points to 6784.29. Shares of Siemens AG rose 0.94 percent and those of Bayer AG advanced 0.69 percent.

The table below ranks indicated dividend yields of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index by industry as of today. The yield is calculated by taking the latest declared dividend, annualized and divided by the stock price.

StockMarketWire.com - BP. BP PLC $0.25 value of shares traded �15689595354 VOD VODAFONE GROUP PLC ORD USD0.11 3/7 value of shares traded �6532973388 RIO RIO TINTO PLC ORD 10P value of shares traded �6455657216 HSBA HSBC ...

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U.K. stocks retreated, paring their second monthly advance, as BP Plc (BP/) reported results that missed estimates and Germany's Finance Ministry said it sees no need to give Europe's permanent bailout fund a banking license.