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.

Irish investors including golfer Rory McIlroy are set for a payday after Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group confirmed it will pay �320m (�374m) for yacht builder Sunseeker.

In a news conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks about current monetary policy and situations that would lead to a change in those policies.

Britain should embrace the benefits of genetically modified crops and push other EU countries to drop their opposition to GM food, the environment secretary will say in a speech on Thursday.

LONDON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:03am EDT. LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has fined a property trader nearly a million pounds for major failings, the largest fine ever for a sole trader in the consumer sector.

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

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin train company bosses today blamed shabby station failures by Network Rail for dragging down its customer satisfaction scores in a damning new report by rail watchdogs.

Although its Blacks Leisure and Millets chains saw an increase in like-for-like sales over recent months, that had been achieved at a "significant margin sacrifice", JD Sports said on Tuesday.

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.