Business

Ryanair staff are to get more money for spotting and charging for oversized baggage, the company’s chief executive has said. Michael O’Leary said he...

A larger than expected hike in the energy price cap from October is largely down to higher costs being imposed on families by the...

Thousands of consumers been targeted by fraudsters impersonating the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA has said it received 4,465 reports of scammers pretending...

A health and beauty retailer founded on a Lancashire market stall more than half a century ago is facing collapse amid a race to...

President Trump says he is firing a governor of the US central bank, a move seen as intensifying his bid for control over the...

The water industry watchdog is probing payments to the bosses of a string of suppliers following the revelation that Yorkshire Water’s offshore parent company...

The owners of New Look, the high street fashion retailer, have picked bankers to oversee a strategic review which is expected to see the...

The Coca-Cola Company is brewing up a sale of Costa, Britain’s biggest high street coffee chain, more than six years after acquiring the business...

TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs at risk in the UK, as it turns to artificial intelligence to assess problematic content. The video-sharing app...

A union has welcomed the government taking over a troubled steel company, but is warning that payment for workers must be a top priority....

US stocks have fallen for five days running as traders nervously await a speech from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Central bankers are gathering...

The British-based bank Shawbrook is in talks to buy ThinCats, a lender to medium-sized businesses, in a deal worth about £180m. Sky News has...

Consumer confidence has reached its highest point this year – driven by the Bank of England’s interest rate cuts. The long-running GfK Consumer Confidence...

One of the UK’s last remaining steel companies has been pushed into compulsory liquidation – and will fall into government control. Speciality Steels UK...

The government borrowed the least amount of money in three years last month, official figures showed, in a surprise bout of good news for...

Why is Donald Trump threatening to impose sanctions, or tariffs, or maybe both, on India in relation to the Ukraine war? The short answer...

Prices in the UK rose even faster than expected last month, reaching the highest level in 18 months, according to official figures. Inflation hit...

An AI start-up which claims to act as an ‘immune system’ for software has landed $17m (£12.6m) in initial funding from backers including the...

Energy bills are now expected to rise in autumn, a reversal from the previously anticipated price drop, a prominent forecaster has said. Households will...