Category: News Wire

Bigger screens and higher demand in China help the tech giant to post record results but Apple Watch sales remain unclear.

Report predicts house price rises of 5 per cent a year and a shortage of affordable homes, as cost of deposit locks people out of property market

The Greek government cleared its monthly debts with its international creditors on Monday, as the country’s creaking banks were able to open for the first time in three weeks.

Officials at the City watchdog have visited the offices of Barclays more than twice as often as any other bank, an indication of the concern among regulators about the lender and its scandal-hit investment bank.

Bosses at Toshiba, Japan’s 10th largest company, are engulfed in a scandal in which profits were artificially inflated by $1.2bn (£800m).

PayPal has been valued at almost $50bn (£34bn) after splitting from eBay and relisting on Nasdaq.

Ben Sherman, the struggling British clothing brand sported by successive generations of rock stars from the Who and the Jam to Oasis, is hoping to make a comeback after being snapped up by a private equity-backed firm.

A fifth of small business owners have taken no more than a week off in at least three years, according to research by payment services provider Worldpay.

British consumers will be worse off in the next few years because of measures announced by George Osborne in his budget this month, according to the EY Item Club.

A combination of rate hike fears in the US together with selling activity in China has caused the price of gold to fall to its lowest level in nearly six years

Greek banks are reopening after three weeks of closures sparked by the deadlock over the country’s debt.

The number of UK food suppliers and farmers struggling to stay afloat has leapt more than 50 per cent in 12 months, as a bitter supermarket price war continues to take its toll.

Britons holidaying in Europe this summer were handed a windfall by the Bank of England after the prospects of higher interest rates sent the pound to a seven-and-a-half-year high against the single currency.

Construction firm Samsung C&T, part of the wider Samsung Group, has approved a controversial buyout deal which will aid the controlling Lee family in their internal power handover.

People who were mis-sold payment protection insurance can receive widely differing compensation, a BBC investigation has found.