A long-awaited plan for railways in the Midlands and north of England will be published next week that could see the eastern extension of HS2 from Birmingham...
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Three is a trend, so the saying goes. So news of two more big company demergers today, hot on the heels of the three-way break-up of 129-year-old US industrial...
The owner of Burger King’s British operations has picked two banks to serve up a whopper of a London float next year. Sky News has learnt that...
Drugs firm AstraZeneca has said it plans to start earning a “modest” profit from its COVID-19 vaccine having previously sold it at cost. The Anglo...
The economy is recovering, but the pace of that recovery is diminishing – that’s the big picture from today’s gross domestic product...
Britain’s economic growth slowed to 1.3% in the third quarter, official figures show. It meant that gross domestic product (GDP) remained 2.1% lower than...
The annual rate of inflation in the US has hit its highest level in more than three decades, fed by faster than expected rises in the cost of fuel and food...
Marks & Spencer has swung back into the black after a pandemic-induced slump but warned of the impact of supply chain strains and higher labour costs over...
Some of the world’s largest car manufacturers and vehicle producing nations will not sign a global deal to cut new car emissions by 2040, dealing a blow...
Supermarket price inflation has reached its highest level for more than a year – adding to cost of living pressures – according to industry figures...
Small nuclear reactors will get a £210 million government investment boost in the hope of moving to clean household energy “more quickly”...
JD Sports has said it is not “suspicious or illegitimate” for its executive chairman Peter Cowgill to meet his opposite number at rival Footasylum...
An investment vehicle which began building a stake in the London-listed gambling software group Playtech earlier this year is weighing plans for a £3bn...
Elon Musk has asked his 62.5 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock. The Tesla CEO launched the poll in response to a...
Abrdn, the FTSE-100 asset manager, is in advanced talks to buy Interactive Investor (II) for more than £1.5bn – a deal that will hand it control of...
The UK’s five biggest supermarkets will try to halve the environmental impact of a weekly food shop by the end of the decade. It is the latest climate...
