Business

Government borrowing leapt above COVID-19 levels to reach the fourth highest monthly amount since records began in 1993, official data shows. The Office for...

“There are two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.” John Kenneth Galbraith, the esteemed Canadian...

Ian King is joined by Nomura’s chief UK and Euro area economist George Buckley to discuss the latest government borrowing figures, before Danish Crown’s...

Shell will review £25bn of investments in British projects after the chancellor extended the windfall tax on energy companies, its UK chairman has told...

Immigration should be used to solve worker shortages in the UK and the government must be “practical” on the issue, the head of the...

A venture capital fund backed by the advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell will this week unveil its first public investment in a US digital...

A challenger bank specialising in green finance has poached its new finance chief from a rival as it seeks to accelerate its growth in...

A multimillion-pound payout to Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, is in jeopardy amid faltering talks about a sale of the asset management business...

Tesla is recalling around 321,000 vehicles in the US because of potential problems with their rear lights, according to a filing made public on...

Banksy has accused US fashion retailer Guess of stealing his work, encouraging shoplifters to head to their flagship Regent Street store in central London...

Civil servants at several government departments will take part in a month of sustained industrial action from mid-December. Members of the PCS union who...

Brexit, slashing investment and Liz Truss’s mini-budget are among the “own goals” that have led to the UK’s dire financial straits, according to a...

The UK’s economic outlook will be “challenging” for the next two years, Jeremy Hunt says. The chancellor presented his autumn statement to parliament on...

Retail sales returned to growth in October, according to official figures released a day after crucial forecasts warned of the biggest fall on record...

Twitter employees have been told that all office buildings have been temporarily closed – with more staff thought to be leaving the social media...

Tesco, the country’s largest retailer, is offering its workforce advances in their pay to help them navigate key debt deadlines as the cost of...

Jeremy Hunt will continue to defend his autumn statement today as experts warn of a record fall in living standards across the country. The...

Twitter employees have been told that all office buildings have been temporarily closed as more of them are estimated to be leaving the social...

Addressing MPs in the House of Commons, Jeremy Hunt promised that his autumn statement would lead to “lower inflation, lower mortgage rates, a shallower...