BHS staff left to founder as Green sails off in £100m super-yachtBillionaire knight facing storm over appointment of administrators to retail groupWed Apr 27 2016 - 01:00
London briefing: Sorrell pay advertises sense of self-worthBoss of advertising giant WPP gets his retaliation in early over £70m payWed Apr 20 2016 - 01:00
London Briefing: Tesco returns to the black after gloomy yearRetailer expected to report first increase in quarterly sales in more than three yearsWed Apr 13 2016 - 01:00
M&S’s new boss Steve Rowe has toughest job in retailCity keen to hear chief executive’s strategy to revive store’s core clothing businessWed Apr 06 2016 - 01:00
Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley opens up to media but investors fear he said too muchMike Ashley defends company, attacks detractors but lets slip business woesWed Mar 23 2016 - 02:06
Will Mike Ashley of Sports Direct really take on Westminster?The company boss is to appear before MPs to answer questions on working conditionsWed Mar 16 2016 - 01:00
Meltdown at EDF over €23bn UK nuclear power plantFrench utility’s Hinkley Point project described by analyst as ‘verging on insanity’Wed Mar 09 2016 - 01:00
Bank of England refuses to be drawn into Brexit speculationGovernor admits continued volatility for sterling likely as poll draws nearerWed Feb 24 2016 - 01:00
Hornby toy firm in battle to stay on right trackOil enthusiasm bubbles to the surface again as ‘Gatwick Gusher’ starts producingWed Feb 17 2016 - 01:00
Rolls-Royce to outline plan for annual cost savings of £200mAnalysts fear new boss will not pay dividend until financial position improvesWed Feb 10 2016 - 01:00
Sainsbury’s buys Argos-owner Home Retail in search for growthMeanwhile EasyJet founder takes on Aldi and Lidl with easyFoodstore in LondonTue Feb 02 2016 - 20:11
Tesco to avoid fines despite appalling behaviour revealedLondon briefing: Abuses appeared to be ‘more prevalent towards the end of trading periodsWed Jan 27 2016 - 01:09
London Briefing: Bank of England ‘cries wolf’ on rates as growth faltersBank governor Mark Carney’s speech has made rate hikes a distant prospectWed Jan 20 2016 - 01:09
British retailers report unexpected growth over Christmas periodDebenhams and Morrisons defy the odds, while German discounters push onWed Jan 13 2016 - 01:00
Sainsbury’s interest in Argos and Homebase rattles marketsSupermarket’s lurch out of groceries sends it to arena of FTSE-fallers alongside NextWed Jan 06 2016 - 01:00
Billionaire Ashley’s treatment of staff is under increasing scrutinyQuestionable working practices within Sports Direct International have caused a public outcryThu Dec 24 2015 - 01:00
London briefing: Is it worth it for Shell and BG to do a deal?As the price of oil slides, investors are getting nervous about prospectsWed Dec 16 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Retail reality check in run-up to ChristmasDespite hype surrounding Black Friday, November sales down on the previous yearWed Dec 09 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Barclays shares up on more good newsBarclays passes ‘stress tests’ in better style than had been expectedWed Dec 02 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Rolls-Royce chief must quickly clear ‘accounting fog’Warren East warns radical restructuring required to restore Rolls to former gloryWed Nov 25 2015 - 01:00
HBOS report will make painful reading for regulators and former bank chiefsNobody will face fines for wrongdoing as statute of limitations has expiredWed Nov 18 2015 - 01:00
Tempers fray in British broadband battleVodafone boss launches bitter attack on BT and Deutsche TelekomWed Nov 11 2015 - 01:03
Festive ads get under way as retailers fight for revenueChains spare no expense in wooing customers in the lucrative gift marketWed Nov 04 2015 - 01:00
Lords give Osborne a drubbing as shaken economy is stirred by the Bond effectResults for the third quarter showed an unexpectedly sharp slow down in growthWed Oct 28 2015 - 01:00
Steely comments as Chinese president’s state visit coincides with British job lossesBeijing’s dumping of cheap steel on the market is linked to the latest layoffsWed Oct 21 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Barclays set to turn clock back in top postFiona Walsh: Bank looks set to hire another US investment banker, James “Jes” Staley, as chief executiveWed Oct 14 2015 - 01:15
Lloyds sale a safe bet, for Osborne at leastHyped privatisation will secure votes of thousands of grateful investorsWed Oct 07 2015 - 01:00
Battle rages in City after Glencore’s dramatic fallClose eye on analysts as mining group’s shares suffer 30% collapse at start of weekWed Sept 30 2015 - 01:00
RSA shares fall 20% after Zurich U-turn on takeoverStephen Hester misses out on £8.5m bonusWed Sept 23 2015 - 01:00
Can Primark succeed where a host of other overseas retailers have failed?Cut-price fashion chain’s success in a notoriously treacherous market America is not assured but if anyone can do it the Dublin-based company canWed Sept 09 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Aga saga heats up as Whirlpool emerges as rival for MiddlebyNews of potential takeover battle sent shares surging by another 11 per centWed Sept 02 2015 - 01:00
From disused rail carriage to City darling - the life of Tony PidgleyLondon Briefing: Pidgley’s life story reads like a feel-good film script, but is the latest bonus scheme going too far?Wed Aug 12 2015 - 12:10
Osborne missing in action as questions raised about RBSDisposal of £2.1bn of the bank’s shares marks the start of what will be the UK’s biggest ever privatisationWed Aug 05 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Britain recovering but manufacturing lagsNew figures show that the GDP per head of population is at pre-crisis levelsWed Jul 29 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: AO World back in spotlight as shares rise nearly 10%Online white goods retailer AO World says expansion plans in Germany on trackWed Jul 22 2015 - 01:00
Tony Hayward, ‘most hated man in America’, seeks a second chanceFive years after Gulf of Mexico disaster, the former BP boss is causing controversyWed Jul 15 2015 - 01:00
Good economic news as Osborne prepares budgetAt centre of budget statement will be £12bn in welfare cuts, details of which were noticeably absent in Tory election manifestoWed Jul 01 2015 - 01:02
Favourable reception for Ferrero takeover of chocolatier ThorntonsPurchase of struggling firm by Italian group widely welcomedWed Jun 24 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: the chill of dipping below zeroCall it deflation or negative inflation – falling prices result in frenzied headlinesWed Jun 17 2015 - 01:00
HSBC rebranding raises possibility of revival of ‘listening’ Midland BankBirmingham location of retail head office fuels speculation about rebadgingWed Jun 10 2015 - 01:00
New Morrisons boss feels the weight of historyLondon Briefing: Potts meets shareholders with good and bad news for food retailerWed Jun 03 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: former Thomas Cook chief Harriet Green awaits £10m bonusGlobetrotting executive tweets as anger mounts over deaths of children in CorfuWed May 27 2015 - 01:00
M&S expected to report first increase in annual profits in four yearsToo early to tell if Marc Bolland’s costly recovery plan finally workingWed May 20 2015 - 01:00
Mark Carney expected to warn markets on interest rate rise timingLondon Briefing: Bank of England quarterly inflation report follows strong industrial output figuresWed May 13 2015 - 01:00
London briefing: Egyptian charges follow Sainsbury’s bossBizarre case of Mike Coupe criminal conviction in Egyptian court – and two-year prison sentence – emerged out of the blueWed May 06 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Halving of growth rate is last thing Cameron neededPrime minister put a brave face on Britain’s latest GDP dataWed Apr 29 2015 - 09:31
London Briefing: Fickle fashion business can put in the bootThe rag trade is subject to the whims of demand and margins can be lowWed Apr 22 2015 - 01:00
London briefing: New man in hot seat at British GasInsurance veteran Mark Hodges appointed to tough high-profile jobWed Apr 15 2015 - 01:00
London Briefing: Pensioners face “blow it all or put it away” quandaryRise of ‘granlords’ as retirees are given access to their entire pension potsWed Apr 08 2015 - 01:00
Spectre of deflation hangs over BritainOfficial government figures show inflation slumped to zeroWed Mar 25 2015 - 01:00
