Business

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Vast numbers of Brits are still working from home, despite being free to go back to the office since the government repealed its advice...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

NatWest Group, the taxpayer-backed lender, is to start a search for a successor to Sir Howard Davies, the City grandee who has chaired it...

The cost of a homemade G&T could become more expensive as the price of popular tonic waters soars. The price of mixers made by...

The government has been warned it is falling dangerously behind in its plans to build a British battery industry, with manufacturing capacity forecast to...

US inflation has surged to its highest level in four decades according to new figures that add to pressure for interest rate hikes in...

Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is trying to force an arm of the tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s UK steel empire into insolvency, casting renewed...

The economy grew at its best annual pace on record in 2021 despite a December hit from measures to control the spread of the...

Around three quarters of firms say they are putting up prices in response to surging costs such as wages, energy and raw materials, according...