Business

The UK’s services sector has reported its second consecutive month of growth, according to a closely-watched survey. The S&P Global/CIPS UK Services PMI scored...

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay almost $9bn (£7.2bn) to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its talc caused cancer. The new...

The Co-operative Group has reported a full-year profit, helped by recent cost-cutting and the sale of its petrol forecourt business. The retail-to-funerals business said...

TikTok has been fined £12.7m for breaches of data protection law, including using the personal data of children aged under 13 without parental consent....

Passengers travelling through London City Airport will no longer have to limit their liquids to 100ml in their hand luggage as high-tech CT scanners...

Full-size self-driving buses will hit the road next month in what is believed to be a world first. Stagecoach has announced the ground-breaking service...

The chairman of Marks and Spencer says company law is “stuck in a 40-year-old time warp” and needs to catch up with the digital...

Hammerson, one of Britain’s biggest shopping centre owners, is facing demands from its biggest shareholder to accelerate asset sales and resume dividend payments ahead...

Oil prices are up more than 6% after Saudi Arabia and other major producers vowed to cut production. Brent crude, the international oil benchmark,...

Virgin Orbit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US after failing to secure the funding needed to recover from a January...

Politicians have paid tribute to former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson after his death aged 91. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the party grandee “was...

The surprise production cuts announced by OPEC+ at the weekend appear to have been motivated by a number of factors. The most obvious is...

Virgin Orbit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US after failing to secure the funding needed to recover from a January...

Oil prices are up more than 5% after Saudi Arabia and other major producers vowed to cut production. Brent crude, the international oil benchmark,...

Troubled cinema chain Cineworld is terminating plans for the sale of its UK, US and Ireland businesses. The news was announced by the world’s...

Tesla saw its sales rise by 36% in the first financial quarter, after two price cuts aimed at boosting demand. The electric car, SUV...

The private equity backer of Café Rouge’s parent company has joined a host of suitors hoping to dine out on Princes Foods, the company...

Sir Richard Branson’s cruise-line venture is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh funding even as the Virgin Group founder faces financial turbulence...

Hundreds of thousands of small businesses could face “tough decisions” following changes to the energy support scheme, according to the Federation of Small Businesses....