Business

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...

A former subpostmistress contemplated suicide and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after being subjected to a “kangaroo court” process for alleged false accounting. Grandmother Jennifer...

A former boss of Amazon UK is being lined up as the next president of the CBI, Britain’s most influential employers’ group. Sky News...

Britain is currently in the grips of its worst storm in nearly 30 years, with rare red warnings issued for large swathes of the...

Retail sales rebounded in January after falling in December, posting their biggest monthly rise since the shops reopened last spring. Despite rising prices due...

As Storm Eunice barrels towards the South West of England, the UK’s energy watchdog has issued an initial report on the impact of Storm...

The hospitality sector has issued a plea for the chancellor to extend VAT support beyond April as rising inflation threatens to inflict more damage...

Aldi, named recently by Which? as the UK’s cheapest supermarket, has now been declared the worst for online order substitutions by the consumer group....

The widow of a sub postmaster wrongly convicted of theft has told Sky News that the Post Office “contributed” to his death. Julian Wilson,...

Inflation hit 5.5% in January, its highest rate since March 1992, as the cost of living in Britain continued to surge, official figures show....

There are many unknowns in the Russia-Ukraine situation. Will Russia invade? Will it stop short of invasion while taking other steps to destabilise Ukraine?...

Pay packets across Britain grew by 6.3% in January when compared with the same month in 2021, just outstripping the 5.4% rate of inflation,...

Vast numbers of Brits are still working from home, despite being free to go back to the office since the government repealed its advice...

Markets around the world were rattled on Monday morning as they digested news that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent, dealing a...

Boris Johnson is love-bombing Scots on Valentine’s Day with a pledge to boost trade and business by creating two “green freeports” north of the...

Jack Monroe has praised Asda for cutting the cost of products in its Smartprice range – and making them more widely available. The poverty...