The small increase in domestic energy bills announced today confirms that prices have stabilised since the ruinous spikes that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but remain...
Cash-strapped Thames Water has agreed a payment plan with regulators to cover off a record fine that threatened to exacerbate its financial difficulties. Britain’s biggest supplier...
Thousands of consumers been targeted by fraudsters impersonating the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA has said it received 4,465 reports of scammers pretending to be...
A health and beauty retailer founded on a Lancashire market stall more than half a century ago is facing collapse amid a race to find a...
President Trump says he is firing a governor of the US central bank, a move seen as intensifying his bid for control over the setting of...
The owners of New Look, the high street fashion retailer, have picked bankers to oversee a strategic review which is expected to see the company change...
The Coca-Cola Company is brewing up a sale of Costa, Britain’s biggest high street coffee chain, more than six years after acquiring the business in a...
TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs at risk in the UK, as it turns to artificial intelligence to assess problematic content. The video-sharing app said a...
A union has welcomed the government taking over a troubled steel company, but is warning that payment for workers must be a top priority. Speciality Steels...
US stocks have fallen for five days running as traders nervously await a speech from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Central bankers are gathering for an...
The British-based bank Shawbrook is in talks to buy ThinCats, a lender to medium-sized businesses, in a deal worth about £180m. Sky News has learnt that...
Consumer confidence has reached its highest point this year – driven by the Bank of England’s interest rate cuts. The long-running GfK Consumer Confidence Index shows...
One of the UK’s last remaining steel companies has been pushed into compulsory liquidation – and will fall into government control. Speciality Steels UK (SSUK), part...
Prices in the UK rose even faster than expected last month, reaching the highest level in 18 months, according to official figures. Inflation hit 3.8% in...
An AI start-up which claims to act as an ‘immune system’ for software has landed $17m (£12.6m) in initial funding from backers including the ventures arm...
Energy bills are now expected to rise in autumn, a reversal from the previously anticipated price drop, a prominent forecaster has said. Households will be charged...
Consumers could be allowed to attend water company board meetings under new rules proposed by the regulator. Companies may survey and research customers to understand their...
More than 200 UK pubs closed in the first half of the year as part of a “heartbreaking” trend which industry bosses fear is set to...
BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is backing a controversial bid by the metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta to retain control of his faltering UK steel empire....
Soho House, the global network of private members’ clubs, is being bought by a group led by hotel owners MCR – valuing the business at $2.7bn...