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Major English cities – particularly Manchester – have seen the sharpest falls in home ownership since a peak in the early 2000s, analysis suggests.

In all, 209,000 VW vehicles have been banned, mainly over emissions-related problems, since November – or 68% of the vehicles the company had sold in the country since 2007

Barclays will start identifying customers with voice recognition technology this week, slashing the need for customers to answer a series of questions to gain access to their accounts on the telephone.

Government fought in the courts for four years to keep the companies’ identities a secret, saying it would damage their ‘commercial interests’

Borrowing by firms will drop by 1% this year, EY Item Club forecasts, withconsumer lending also expected to weaken

Scotland would choose being part of the UK over the EU, a new survey suggests.

Ex-Bhs boss Sir Philip Green has accused Frank Field of turning a parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of the high street chain into a “kangaroo court”.

Analysts surprised at poor performance of two UK high street banks under imagined scenarios of economic turbulence

Barclays has reported a slide in pre-tax profits for the first half of the year.

The Euro 2016 football championships gave off-licences and supermarkets a boost, as fans stocked up on booze to drink at home

The strong growth suggests that Google is successfully navigating the transition from desktop ads – its traditional strength – to mobile ads

The International Monetary Fund’s top staff misled their own board, made a series of calamitous misjudgments in Greece, became euphoric cheerleaders for the euro project, ignored warning signs of impending crisis, and collectively failed to grasp an elemental concept of currency theory.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will cut 3,000 roles and close 200 branches, even as it reported a doubling of pre-tax profits.

Nintendo has yet to benefit from Pokémon Go’s success

Select committee chair asks Serious Fraud Office to investigate whether Sir Philip Green or Dominic Chappell broke law