Category: News Wire

Markets keen for long-delayed post-election outlook on inflation and unemployment with rates likely to stay at 0.5%

Littlewoods to stop printing catalogue and focus on websites due to internet shopping revolution

David Cameron is being urged to promptly lay out a timetable and negotiating plan for his EU membership referendum, as European leaders press for long-awaited guidance on how to answer the “British question”.

Here’s a lesson from the U.K. election: follow the money, not the polls.

The waiting game is over. The Conservative party has won the general election of 2015 and are forming a single party government.

Pound enjoys best one-day rise since October 2011 as FTSE 250 hits an all-time high

Singapore, Canada, Brazil and Abu Dhabi take part in deal

Pound soars by most in six-years and FTSE has its biggest single rise since January as investors welcome prospect of a majority Tory government

Whilst votes are still being counted and the full outcome remains unknown what is clear is that there UK have voted for the Conservative party in numbers not predicted. We have spoken to Guy Rigby to get an SME view so far and Alan Wilde from Barings Asset management for his take from a financial markets perspective.

Video chat software Skype’s name is so similar to the broadcaster Sky’s that the public is likely to be confused between the two, an EU court has ruled.

Sainsbury has fallen to its first full-year loss in a decade after a raft of charges wiped out the UK retailer’s underlying profit.

Labour threat to purge senior business advisers from Whitehall: Shake-up would rid civil service of industry leaders brought in by the Tories