Category: News Wire

Tyrrells Crisps, the British upmarket snack business, has been sold in a £300m deal to an American popcorn maker.

Hootsuite, one of only two so-called tech unicorns in Canada, has revealed that it’s generating cash for the first time, bringing it a step closer to going public.

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported a £2.04 billion loss for the first half of the year.

AB InBev’s looming acquisition of SABMiller will shut down operations in Woking and London with new beer giant’s HQ in Belgium.

Tax breaks for peer-to-peer lenders and crowdfunding websites could encourage savers to put their money into risky ventures, according to top MP Andrew Tyrie.

The Bank of England is widely expected to cut UK interest rates for the first time since March 2009 on Thursday.

Shares in micro-blogging site Twitter have jumped today on rumours former Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer and Saudi investor Prince Al-Waleed Bin-Talal could make a buyout offer for the company.

Exchanges halt trading as security breach causes rapid sell-off of the cryptocurrency

Theresa May is told proposal to remove business data history could hamper police and journalists investigating corruption

JPMorgan to pay ex-prisoners $447,000 damages after ‘exploiting one of most vulnerable groups imaginable’

HSBC has reported a 29% fall in profits in the first half of the year amid a “turbulent period” for the banking giant.

Land Registry figures also reveal that more than half of UK property owned by offshore companies as of last October was purchased since 2010

The UK will avoid a Brexit-induced recession at the turn of the year, according to a top think-tank.

Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla has agreed to buy another of the billionaire’s investments, the solar power company SolarCity, in a potentially controversial $2.6bn (£2bn) deal that may lead to lawsuits over conflicts of interest.

Moneyfacts says 13 best buy savings deals were withdrawn from the market and have yet to be replaced.