Next has raised its profit forecast for the fifth time in less than a year after reporting better-than-expected sales in the run-up to Christmas. The high...
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By 1pm this afternoon, just a few days into the new year, FTSE 100 bosses will have earned more than the typical UK worker makes in a year, according to new...
Imported foods may be labelled when they do not meet welfare standards, as the government considers measures to help shoppers “buy British”...
HSBC has become the latest lender to cut mortgage rates amid predictions that more banks and building societies will follow suit in the coming weeks. The high...
Price cuts to lure shoppers helped supermarkets rake in record revenues ahead of Christmas, according to industry data. Kantar Worldpanel, which tracks sales...
Two of the world’s largest container ship operators have extended diversions from the Red Sea following an attack on a vessel at the weekend that has...
The number of new first-time buyers with a mortgage fell last year to the UK’s lowest level in a decade, according to a new report. Yorkshire Building...
More than 230 independent vape shops opened across the UK last year, new figures have revealed. It represents a sharp increase from the 61 new stores which...
Philip Jansen, the outgoing BT Group boss, has been approached about becoming the next chairman of WPP, the FTSE-100 marketing services giant. Sky News has...
A British buyout firm is hoping to triumph in a two-way battle for Princes Foods, one of Britain’s biggest tinned produce manufacturers. Sky News...
If you crack open a bottle of something – be it wine, water or soft drinks – over the festive season, there’s a good chance the glass came...
The finance chief of The Daily Telegraph’s parent company is to leave amid a government-commissioned probe into the newspaper’s takeover by a state-backed Abu...
The cost of shipping goods has again grown significantly as freight giants continue to avoid the key Red Sea route and unions expand protections for mariners...
House prices are expected to remain static or fall again next year after a drop of 1.8% since the end of 2022, according to one of the UK’s largest...
How to sum up a year like 2023? Perhaps the best thing to say is that it was considerably less exciting – as far as the economics went – than 2022...
House prices in Huddersfield grew at the fastest rate in the UK in the last year – despite a nationwide downturn – according to a report. MIt was...