The prospect of an eventual �tell Sid�-style sale of shares in Lloyds Bank was raised by George Osborne as he claimed Britain's economy had emerged from �intensive care�.

UK banks need to raise billions more in capital to cover their risks, according to the financial regulator. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) says Britain's top banks and building societies need to fill a �27.1bn hole in their balance sheets.

A top businessman who threw his weight behind the Government's savage cuts is to be made an unelected minister and handed a peerage.

Thursday 06.30 BST. European stocks look set to join the heavy sell-off seen across Asia, which started in the US overnight in response to the Federal Reserve's confirmation that it expects to start easing its asset purchases later this year.

BEIJING | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:56am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - Wanda Group, China's largest commercial real estate developer, aims to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, ...

The Environment secretary will say that using GM will make use of farm land and �free up space for biodiversity, nature and wilderness�.

In the biggest-ever penalty on an individual trader, the UK financial sector regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Wednesday imposed a fine of nearly 1 million pounds on an Indian-origin realty broker for fraudulent sale and renting of homes.

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England who has spent more than two decades at Threadneedle Street, is to be made a life peer.

A survey of 30,000 people by the watchdog group, Passenger Focus, showed the travelling public are increasingly frustrated by the lack of staff at stations, delays and squalid lavatories on trains.

Royal Mail has begun a court battle with the Communication Workers Union after thousands of postal workers voted to boycott deliveries of rivals' mail and to oppose privatisation.