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Brexit will not be positive for either Britain or the EU, according to Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs.

Prosecutors said they would be continuing their probe into a corruption scandal that has led to the impeachment of South Korean president Park

Surveyors body Rics says market stuttered at end of 2016, with sharp fall in number expecting sales to rise in coming months

Janet Yellen, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, said the economy had come a long way in recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and that she and her colleagues expect the central bank to raise interest rates “a few times a year” until 2019.

While Westminster was awaiting the first lines of Theresa May’s Brexit speech yesterday morning, the government’s fiscal watchdog issued a devastating judgement on the long-term health of the country’s finances.

‘Deutsche Bank did not merely mislead investors: It contributed directly to an international financial crisis.’ – US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.

Deliveroo plans to employ hundreds of new staff at a new London headquarters, trebling its current engineering headcount.

Mobile operator EE has been fined £2.7m by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, for overcharging tens of thousands of customers.

Voluntary payments will mean UK manufacturing giant avoids being prosecuted by anti-corruption investigators.

The 2017 World Economic Forum kicked off at Davos today, with a star line up of speakers ready to air their views on subjects ranging from the future of the digital economy to safe water.

The Governor said that if the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee had not reduced the cost of borrowing by 0.25 per cent last August a quarter of a million UK jobs would have been lost due to lower growth.

The UK will not retain “partial” membership of the EU once it leaves, Theresa May will say in her much-anticipated Brexit speech.

Ongoing NHS crisis and economic recovery may have triggered rise, but impeding Brexit means future is uncertain.

Baker McKenzie predicts that the total value of M&A activity in the UK will reach just $125bn in 2017, a more than 60 per cent slump from the $340bn of deals seen in 2016

On only a handful of occasions in its 100-year history has the hotchpotch of billboards at Piccadilly Circus been intentionally switched off during peacetime.