Category: News Wire

Technology giant Apple said newer lines of business such as Apple Pay, the App Store and Apple Music helped to drive growth in its third quarter.

IFS says increased UK state pension age is lifting earnings from employment but only partially offsetting reduced incomes from other benefits. 

The mobile operator Three is poised to begin a multibillion-pound overhaul of its network as demand for data skyrockets and it prepares for the introduction of 5G technology.

A third of “late” millennials could financially survive for just a month or less if they lost their job, a new report claims.

Millions of workers are “stuck” in jobs where their talents are not being used, a study has found.

Centrica keeps gas bills unchanged but says first electricity rise since 2013 means average annual dual fuel bills will increase by 7.3 per cent to £1,120.

Rolls-Royce chief executive Warren East has delivered a forecast-beating performance with the company’s interim results as he continues to deliver a turnaround of the blue-chip engineering group.

Retailers would back raising the contactless spending limit as the ultra-fast system for processing payments has pushed up transactions.

A three-day strike by Bank of England support staff will go ahead after talks at the conciliation service Acas ended without agreement, the Unite union said.

The number of businesses suffering “significant financial distress” is increasing at its fastest rate in three years, according to research from business recovery practice Begbies Traynor.

Analysis from economic consultancy Oxera says cost to UK of new customs checks and ensuing delays could amount to more than £1bn a year.

Worldpay and its American suitor are haggling over the future status of its British operations as they seek to finalise a £9bn takeover of the FTSE-100 payments giant.

Shares in blue chip bank HSBC shot up more than two per cent this morning on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as it announced a share buyback programme which will return up to $2bn (£1.52bn) to shareholders.

The “status quo is not an option” when it comes to the fees banks charge for unarranged overdrafts, the UK’s financial services regulator has said.

British Airways owner IAG has reported a surge in profits, despite taking a hit from a major IT failure that caused travel chaos for tens of thousands of passengers in May.