Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to stop multinationals hiding their profits from the taxman in shadowy offshore "shell" companies.

LONDON - London shares closed higher on Tuesday as investors hoped the two-day Federal Reserve Board meeting will not spark too sharp a reduction in the Fed's stimulus programme to shore up the United States economy, dealers said.

Let's hope Charlotte Hogg enjoys her 15 seconds of fame. Her appointment as the first chief operating officer in the Bank of England's history is certainly newsworthy.

Aggreko. �17.52 -39p. Questor says BUY. Aggreko disappointed some with a pre-close trading update on Tuesday in which it said full-year expectations remained unchanged.

Liberty Global is structuring a bid for Germany's largest cable group that offers assets instead of cash in the hope of overcoming regulatory opposition to its proposed �7.5bn putative bid for Kabel Deutschland.