Yahoo's $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr will create a combined audience for the internet company of more than 1bn people, chief executive Marissa Mayer said on Monday, a figure that will help it to catch Facebook, YouTube and Google in the race for scale ...

The fallout from last year's West Coast mainline fiasco was the �final straw� that forced FirstGroup to launch a heavily discounted rights issue on Monday, according to its chief executive.

LONDON (MarketWatch) - U.K.'s FTSE 100 index ended at the highest closing level since September 2000 on Monday, according to FactSet, boosted by banking shares and a rally for budget airliner EasyJet PLC .

The president of the CBI is delivering a firm message from some of Britain's largest employers to David Cameron, calling on him to stop "moralising" on how multinational corporations should be taxed.

The European Commission investigation into the possible manipulation of oil price benchmarks has widened, with Brussels seeking new information from trading houses, including Glencore, following last week's raids on oil majors.

Households struggling with rising costs were told in no uncertain terms today to expect the squeeze on their incomes to continue for the foreseeable future as the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club warned above target inflation would be a fact of life for at ...

Tuesday preview: M&S and Vodafone report LONDON (SHARECAST) - Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Vodafone are expected to make waves Tuesday when they release their full-year results.

The independent board of Eurasian Natural Resources Corp has rejected a proposed offer by the embattled London-listed miner's billionaire founding shareholders to take it private.

PARIS - The budget airline Ryanair reported a 13 percent increase in annual profit on Monday, as Europe's protracted economic downturn continued to drive air passengers to search for the lowest possible fares.

More than 800 flats in the Battersea Power Station development have been sold for �675m. The owners of the Grade II listed former power station, which has lain dormant since it stopped generating electricity in 1983 despite numerous outlandish ...