Category: News Wire

As UK commuters return to work after latest fare increase a campaign highlights vast discrepancies across Europe in season ticket prices

British businesses entered the new year more optimistic than those in almost any other country, with high hopes for rising profits and job creation, according to research.

Investment bank says there is a ‘high risk’ of UK voting to leave the EU in 2016 as markets have ignored looming referendum

Barclays is to review the payment of controversial “allowances” to make sure they comply with Brussels’ crackdown on bank bonuses.

As anger over the state of flood defences grows, some fear their houses will be unsellable

Next and Marks & Spencer will be the first retailers to report on a tough Christmas trading season

Politicians and campaigners react as research reveals five major banks, including JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, paid no 2014 corporation tax for their UK arms

The government is considering forcing online retailers such as Amazon and eBay to pay for millions of pounds of unpaid VAT owed by small overseas traders that sell through their sites.

The chances of George Osborne meeting his borrowing target for the fiscal year receded further yesterday when disappointing data for last month increased the pressure on him to implement still more austerity to achieve a surplus in 2020.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully returns its Falcon 9 rocket after sending it to space in breakthrough for reusable rockets

The former trader who was the first to be convicted of rigging Libor has had his sentence cut by three years to 11 as the Court of Appeal rejected an attempt to overturn his conviction.

Workers on the London-Scotland service will go on strike for 48 hours on Tuesday night over claims of defective trains

Craft beer lovers have criticised the independent brewer’s choice to become part of AB InBev

Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba has said it will report a record 550bn yen ($4.5bn) annual loss and cut 6,800 jobs as it carries out a restructuring.