Financial

Companies cut jobs at fastest pace in four years after ...

UK firms are shedding jobs at the sharpest rate since 2021, with 160,000 posts ...

Angela Rayner resigns as deputy prime minister after re...

Angela Rayner has quit as deputy PM and housing secretary after the prime minis...

Tesla proposes $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk, t...

Tesla’s board has proposed a record $1 trillion compensation deal for Elon Musk...

UK business confidence rises to highest level since bud...

The IoD’s index of business confidence has climbed to its strongest level since...

Lewes Pound, UK’s last local currency, comes to an end ...

The Lewes Pound, launched in 2008 as part of the UK’s local currency movement, ...

Pension funds urged to back UK tech scale-ups as billio...

Veteran investor Saul Klein has called on UK pension funds to invest more in do...

HMRC chasing £90m in unpaid taxes after staffing firm C...

The UK tax authority is pursuing £90m in unpaid VAT and PAYE after Challenge Re...

Tories pledge to scrap net zero rules and extract “all ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has vowed to remove all net zero requirements...

‘Gender bonus bias’ revealed as men nearly 1.5 times mo...

New research from Brightmine shows men are almost 1.5x more likely to receive a...

Four in five online small businesses expect growth desp...

New eBay UK research shows 78% of small online businesses are confident of grow...

Tesla sales slump 42% in Europe as BYD overtakes market...

Tesla’s EU sales fell 42% in July to 6,600 cars, cutting its market share to 0....

Barclays exits Entercard joint venture with £200m sale ...

Barclays has sold its stake in Nordic consumer credit group Entercard to partne...

Firestarter: the London consultancy helping scale-ups b...

Discover how London-based brand consultancy Firestarter blends creativity and p...

Government to appeal High Court ruling forcing closure ...

The Home Office will challenge a High Court ruling that ordered the closure of ...

Starmer accused of betraying farmers as British food pl...

Keir Starmer faces backlash after Labour fails to deliver pledge that half of p...

Fed rate cut looms after Powell’s Jackson Hole speech

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signalled caution at Jackson Hole, but inve...