Ian Livingston has quit as chief executive of telecoms giant BT to become Britain's new trade minister, it was announced today.

My bet is that at 2 p.m. today, markets will learn that they have misread the Fed. Over the past few weeks, they've focused obsessively on the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will soon reduce, or "taper," the rate at which it has been injecting money into the ...

Sir Mervyn was outvoted for a fifth consecutive month on extending the Bank's �375bn quantitative easing (QE) programme, as members voted 6-3 against expanding asset purchases.

Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the government has recommended.

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, ...

Some 96pc of the 112,000 delivery, sorting office and other postal staff that took part in the ballot voted against the proposed sale of the state-owned delivery company, which is being lined up for the biggest privatisation in 20 years.

Passenger satisfaction on the railways is dipping, with value for money and how companies deal with delays being the biggest cause for complaint, according to a survey of thousands of train customers.

The company, which has built 12,000 homes in more expensive housing areas since 2009, said future investments would be increasingly weighted towards a small number of higher value properties.

Imagination Tech exec invests as company unveils annual results LONDON (SHARECAST) - Andrew Heath, a Non-Executive Director of chip designer Imagination Technologies invested nearly 60,000 pounds in the firm on Wednesday, the same day that the ...

A disgraced home finance arranger has been fined a record sum of nearly �1million and banned from working in the financial services industry for misleading vulnerable homeowners.