Business

US bank First Republic’s assets will be taken over by JP Morgan after it became the third American lender to fail in two months....

Vue International, the independent cinema giant, will this week name the former boss of Very, the online shopping group, to its board. Sky News...

Manchester United could become the most expensive sports team in the world, after a Qatari businessman entered a record-breaking offer as the bidding window...

For some time now, the City has been doing some soul-searching over its future. There was a lot of speculation around the time of...

The fashion retailer Superdry is in advanced talks about a near-£15m share sale as it races to shore up its balance sheet amid tough...

The number of people taking “breathing space” from their debt problems has soared by more than a third year-on-year, official data shows. There were...

Amazon has posted stronger than expected profits in the first quarter of the year – but warnings of a slowdown in its cloud services...

A group of Britain’s most influential trade associations are in talks about forging closer ties as they try to navigate the crisis engulfing the...

NatWest has beaten expectations by recording a pre-tax profit of £1.8bn in the first three months of the year. This is well ahead of...

Average rents for properties across Britain have hit a new record high, according to data from a property website showing a record £2,500 per...

Two union disputes with train operating companies are to result in fresh strikes – including on the days of the Eurovision Song Contest and...

Sainsbury’s has reported a fall in its pre-tax profit, as it reveals it has spent more than £560m on “keeping our prices low over...

The government has announced a raft of gambling reforms, including a new statutory levy on big firms, in a bid to crack down on...

Self-exclusion systems designed to protect problem gamblers are failing because customers are still able to open accounts after registering, according to campaigners. They warn...

The world’s largest economy slowed sharply in the first quarter of the year, according to the first official estimate which has raised fears of...

Vodafone is closing in on the appointment of a new boss after its interim chief executive won support from key institutional investors for her...

Sainsbury’s has reported a fall in its pre-tax profit, as it reveals it has spent more than £560m on “keeping our prices low over...

The new boss of business lobby group the CBI says she is confident it will win back the trust of ministers and members within...

The British competition watchdog has blocked Microsoft’s bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped the $68.7bn...