Business

A robotics and automation company backed by Walmart, America’s biggest grocery retailer, is finalising plans for a $4.5bn (£3.3bn) merger with a ‘blank cheque’...

Jupiter, one of Britain’s best-known fund managers, is on alert for a takeover approach amid a frenzy of dealmaking activity across the global asset...

The future of LV= was thrown into confusion this evening when members of the UK’s second largest mutual life insurer narrowly rejected a takeover...

US inflation has hit a 39-year high in the latest sign of a cost of living squeeze for consumers in the world’s biggest economy....

The company behind the controversial Cambo oil field has said work on the project is being paused – after oil giant Shell pulled out...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned of “bumps on our road to recovery” as new figures showed growth stalled even before the arrival of the...

The government is facing increasing calls to step in and support businesses affected by new “plan B” COVID measures – which include working from...

The energy regulator Ofgem has been accused of sleepwalking into the price crisis that has seen a third of the UK’s household suppliers collapse,...

The prospect of new Plan B COVID-19 restrictions has sent the pound to a one-year low and stirred dismay in the leisure and travel...

Travel giant Tui has warned that latest COVID fears could hit its winter holiday programme even as it looks to a bounce-back in demand...

Asda has joined Tesco, its biggest rival, in facing the prospect of strike action ahead of the key Christmas trading season. The GMB union...

Wall Street regulators are investigating the $1.25bn deal to bring Donald Trump’s social media venture to the stock market, it has been disclosed. Digital...

Inflation looks set to “comfortably exceed 5%” next spring as a likely energy bill hike for millions of households takes effect, the Bank of...

The CBI has cut its forecasts for economic growth thanks to costs and shortages over recent months – and warned that the emergence of...

Paul Pester, the former TSB Bank chief executive, is joining Britain’s fintech frenzy by launching the first UK-based social networking app enabling friends and...

Airline operators have said the return of pre-departure coronavirus tests for all international arrivals to the UK will be a “devastating blow for aviation...

Jan du Plessis, the former chairman of BT Group and a host of other FTSE-100 companies, is a leading candidate to chair Britain’s audit...

The parent company of Boots, Britain’s biggest high street chemist, is to explore a sale of the business next year that could value it...

A member of the Bank of England committee which sets interest rates has backtracked on his support for a hike, saying he wants to...