Category: News Wire

Shares gain as much as 2.9% as supermarket makes ‘solid start’

US regulators have warned banks about potential cyber attacks linked to the interbank messaging system.

The World Bank has slashed its global growth forecasts for the next three years and warned that the “insipid” recovery is coinciding with a potentially dangerous build-up in corporate debt.

The billionaire acknowledges ‘unacceptable’ and ‘unreasonable’ employment practices to MPs in a committee session

Burberry shares have fallen roughly 35% in the past 12 months

Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has admitted to problems with some practices at the firm’s Derbyshire warehouse, ahead of him facing MPs.

British Retail Consortium reports rise of 0.5% after two months of falling sales, but says that conditions remain tough

The Federal Reserve is still on track to raise US interest rates this year, the central bank’s chair hinted on Monday, despite “disappointing” recent data.

Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley says he will now go before MPs to defend the firm’s “good name”.

The pound has yet again borne the brunt of the twists and turns of the EU referendum campaign, with another big drop in the value of the currency.

Sir Philip Green’s company insisted on three protective covenants before selling BHS to Retail Acquisition

Labour is seriously considering the idea of a universal basic income as the Swiss population overwhelming rejected a measure that would give all residents annual earnings of as much as £21,168.

City financier Robin Saunders helped convicted fraudster Paul Sutton in his efforts to buy the retailer in 2013 and 2014

Hundreds of former City Link employees will share an award totalling more than £1 million after winning an employment tribunal claim against the collapsed courier company.

A flag bearing the legend “British Steel” was flying above a UK steelworks again last night as the Scunthorpe works was sold for £1 to the investment funds of two secretive European families.