LONDON�The British government is considering breaking up Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, the country's Treasury chief said Wednesday, a potentially radical move that underscores policy makers' mounting frustration with their inability to arrest a ...

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

Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:30am EDT. Indonesian shares fell 2.94 percent to 4,665.24 by midday, tracking a fall in regional stocks, after the U.S.

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 UK's Financial Conduct Authority has significantly ramped up its scrutiny of the hedge fund industry and in a growing sign of its reach is also paying more attention to the activities of US funds with operations in the UK.

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

When the authorities intervene in banking, their aim is to protect the economy from the banks rather than the banks from the economy.

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.

Imagination Technologies, the designer of microchips used in Apple's iPhone, said that it had not lost a single licensing deal to a competitor as it tried to allay analysts' concerns about falling profits.