The top City regulator is poised to unveil the previously secret details of the capital holes it has identified at Britain's top eight banks, with Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Barclays set to account for more than 90 per cent of the total.

Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:59am EDT. * Analysts worry on strategy delivery. * Former telecom monopoly has recovered under Livingston. * CEO taking up government post to promote UK business.

NEW YORK--U.S. stocks were slightly lower midday as investors waited for the Federal Reserve's policy announcement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped seven points, less than 0.1%, to 15311 in midday trading.

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.

BEIJING�A year after targeting U.S. movie theaters, a Chinese property magnate is sketching out global plans for a new focus: Chinese tourists.

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 ...

Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:30pm EDT. By Neil Maidment. LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Royal Mail workers backed union opposition to plans to privatise the state-owned postal group on Wednesday, a stark reminder for potential investors that there will be no ...

Berkeley has reported a 26 per cent jump in pre-tax profits as house prices surged in London and the southeast. The upmarket housebuilder sold 3,712 new homes in the year ended April 30, up from 3,565 a year earlier.

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.

Liberty Global, the European cable group controlled by John Malone, has entered the bidding for Kabel Deutschland, with a potential offer that would top a price tabled by Vodafone last week and value Germany's largest cable operator at about �7.5bn.