Category: News Wire

Former Prime Minister part of a new five-member board that will advise Pimco on investments

High Streets in the UK are set to face radical changes in the amount of money they pay in business rates in future, new research suggests.

HSBC will cut generous pension payments to senior executives to bring the bank in line with other big companies.

Mondelez was able to pay no UK corporation tax as a result of a Channel Islands-based bond, despite Cadbury making £96.5m profit in 2014

Accountancy body ICAEW says raising 11,000 smaller firms out of audit rules could mean crimes going undetected

A third of small businesses lost up to half their traffic overnight following the Google mobile update

Voca Telemarketing, whose 66 employees earn minimum wage of £6.70 an hour, will boost rate to £8.25 from 1 January

Uber is to raise $2.1 billion from investors to accelerate its global expansion and develop additional services for its cab-hailing app.

Next year, rail fares in the UK are going to rise by an average of 1.1 per cent, according to Rail Delivery Group (RDG) – a rail industry body for Britain.

China and South Africa have entered into a series of business deals amounting to $6.5bn (£4.4bn), according to reports.

Luxury yacht manufacturer Fairline Boats has gone into administration just two months after being acquired by the private equity firm Wessex Bristol – putting 450 jobs at risk.

The future of Britain’s largest car plant, Nissan in Sunderland, is under threat in an increasingly toxic row between the Japanese company and the French government.

Christmas tree lights can slow your wi-fi warns watchdog Ofcom as it releases an app that can check home broadband.

The new boss of Barclays has become the first chief executive of a British bank to have a decade-long “claw-back” clause written into his contract as lenders are forced to toughen the rules allowing them to reclaim bonuses from senior managers even if the problems emerge long after an award has been made.

Non-food shop prices tumbled by 3.3% over the period, driven by reductions in clothing, footwear, electricals, DIY, gardening and hardware