Before we get onto the budget and what Rachel Reeves might do to fiddle her fiscal rules and give herself a little more room to spend,...
The UK needs a strategy to meet growing demand for data centres or risk losing its advantage in the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI), one...
The boss of the UK motor industry’s lobby group has blamed “criminal activity” for UK-made luxury cars finding their way into sanction-hit Russia. The chief executive...
The government has pledged nearly £22bn to fund projects that capture greenhouse gases from polluting plants and store them underground, as it races to reach strict...
Tesco has said a focus on value amid the continuing squeeze on shoppers’ budgets has paid off through a rise in half-year profits. The UK’s biggest...
Financial markets are now pricing in a shock interest rate cut for the UK at the next Bank of England meeting following remarks by its governor....
Banks could be given extra time to investigate suspicious payments under an effort to curb fraud. The Treasury said proposed new laws would enable banks to...
Israel is fighting on at least four fronts, threatening a war across the oil-rich Middle East, but there is no great sense of fear yet as...
A prolonged strike by US port workers risks a new wave of freight-led inflation, according to experts. The walkout, at each of the 36 major ports...
Saga, the London-listed financial services and travel provider for over-50s consumers, is in detailed talks with one of Europe’s biggest insurers about a deal that will...
The Post Office was a “mess” run by executives and government appointees who “dragged their feet” in efforts to compensate and exonerate sub-postmasters, the former chairman...
Mulberry, the struggling UK luxury brand, has rejected a proposed takeover bid by Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group. Frasers, which is majority owned by the tycoon and...
Bosses at eBay have scrapped fees for private sellers across most categories. The online marketplace, which had already removed such fees for fashion earlier this year...
A lawyer representing people affected by a “second Post Office IT scandal” has said they “must not” have “a long, hard battle ahead for exoneration and...
It’s a momentous day in UK industrial history, in two respects. But what have the closures of the last blast furnace at Port Talbot and the...
An arm of BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is closing in on a takeover of a major contractor to Thames Water even as the utility...
Mike Ashley’s sprawling retail empire Frasers Group has revealed a takeover bid for Mulberry, the struggling luxury brand, claiming it wants to save the company from...
The UK’s biggest steelworks will cease production today after more than 100 years, leading to thousands of job losses across South Wales. Blast Furnace 4 –...
Ordinary investors will be given the chance to participate in a £500m flotation of Applied Nutrition, the fast-growing sports supplements maker, when it unveils plans for...
Carlyle, the American investment giant, has become the latest global fund to weigh an investment in Thames Water as the stricken utility races to avoid being...