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Shop prices rose at their fastest rate in over a decade last month, new figures show. Retail price annual inflation accelerated to 1.8% in...

British Gas owner Centrica says it is planning to cancel its contracts with Russian gas suppliers, including Gazprom, as a matter of “urgency”. The...

Homes that are less energy efficient could cost hundreds of pounds more to heat after the energy price cap rises next month, according to...

Oil titan Shell has announced that it will exit all of its joint ventures with Gazprom, an energy company controlled by the Russian state,...

Plans to tackle the flow of “dirty money” and stop the laundering of ill-gotten wealth in the UK property market will be fast-tracked by...

BP is to offload its 19.75% stake in state-owned Russian oil giant Rosneft “with immediate effect” following the invasion of Ukraine. The firm’s chief...

Western allies have agreed to remove selected Russian banks from the SWIFT global financial messaging system. In a joint statement, leader of the European...

McColl’s Retail Group, one of Britain’s biggest convenience store chains, is racing to secure new funding to stave off a collapse that could put...

British Airways has suffered a major outage, causing several flights to be cancelled and leaving passengers stuck on planes after landing at Heathrow. The...

Asian shares have rallied slightly driven by a US rebound as some analysts said the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia over the...

After the damp squib that was the modest package of sanctions unveiled by Boris Johnson on Tuesday, this evening’s latest salvo certainly had a...

Cutting Russia off from the SWIFT global payments system would be one of the toughest sanctions the West could impose. But it would also...

The full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia has sparked a rush for safe haven assets and sent the cost of Brent crude oil...

The governor of the Bank of England has warned that large wage rises and price-setting to reflect surging inflation risk embedding rising costs in...

Barclays is to freeze millions of pounds in share awards to its former chief executive as he contests the findings of a regulatory probe...

Stock markets are plunging and Brent crude oil costs are nearing $100 a barrel as the crisis over Ukraine deteriorates. Brent, the international benchmark,...

Nearly 40% of all board positions at the UK’s top companies are now held by women, up from 12.5% a decade ago, new government...

The average price tag for a home has shot up by almost £8,000 in the space of a month as the easing in the...

An American investment giant is plotting a £5bn takeover of Motor Fuel Group (MFG), Britain’s biggest independent operator of petrol forecourts. Sky News has...