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UK Oil & Gas’s share price leaped more than 71 per cent this morning after revealing there were “significant quantities of moveable oil” at the so-called Gatwick Gusher.

Record low borrowing costs boosts Treasury’s coffers ahead on Budget next month

Bertelsmann Foundation’s survey of 700 British and German firms finds 29% would cut capacity or relocate with 80% firmly behind UK staying in the EU

Shell share price dips as boss Ben van Beurden hails “significant moment” after £35bn takeover of BG Group goes through

Companies have reported their fastest growth for two years, but supermarkets and the oil and gas industries weighed heavily on an otherwise encouraging performance, according to analysis by the Share Centre.

British retailers given a boost with an uplift in shopping footfall in January after a grim December

George Osborne has shared in a £335,000 dividend payout from his family’s profitable wallpaper business — even though it has not paid any UK corporation tax for the past seven years.

UK competition watchdog said firm paid drugmakers £50m in return for delaying cheaper generic versions of drug

Plunging profits have forced Rolls-Royce to slash its dividend for the first time in a quarter of a century.

Google was accused of living on a different planet yesterday after executives insisted that its £130 million tax settlement with Britain was a fair deal.

“Markets have stopped believing central banks can generate inflation. This is becoming a self-reinforcing death spiral”

The peer-to-peer lending industry reacted angrily after the former head of the City regulator warned that the fast-growing sector was an accident waiting to happen.

Price of stock falls 13% in after-hours trading after hitting an all-time low earlier this week on news its number of monthly users has stopped growing entirely

British Gas and EDF Energy have announced they are cutting their gas prices, the last of the big six energy suppliers to do so.

Revenues and bookings at Thomas Cook dropped in the last three months of 2015, in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, Istanbul and Sharm-el-Sheikh, the tour operator said today.