In March the Co-operative Bank quietly hung the �closed to new business� sign over its corporate banking operation. While it continued to service existing business customers it turned away new ones as it worked to conserve capital and to comply with tighter ...

Angry shareholders of HSBC on Friday bombarded the group's board with barrage of accusations ranging from financing Mexican drug cartels to supporting tax havens, slashing jobs and mis-selling products.

The list of potential suitors for Hulu keeps getting longer. On Friday, Yahoo submitted a bid for the online video site co-owned by entertainment giants News Corp.

Germany's economy barely grew in the first quarter of 2013 as exports and investment shrank, figures show. But higher domestic consumption - thanks to rising wages - helped offset the declines in foreign trade and capital investment, raising hopes it will help ...

The BBC has suspended its chief technology officer and admitted wasting nearly �100m on a five-year project intended to make the corporation "tapeless", saying that to continue with the project would be "throwing good money after bad".

News Corp. (NWSA), set to split in two this June, announced a new slate of board members for each company as well as a $500 million stock repurchasing fund for the publishing business.

The volatility that swept global markets this week of course has something to do with the Fed. But it also is a result of a market that's decided it can finally drink safely and deeply from the Fed's proverbial punch bowl, at the same time as the Fed's making ...

CALLS are growing for a public inquiry into failures to clean up coal mines across Scotland after a new report revealed a potential �60m shortfall in funds for one region alone.

Households paid off �241m more mortgage debt than they borrowed in an effort to get on top of their debts. Before May last year, net lending had never been negative since the BBA started collecting the data in 1997.

Member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, Paul Fisher, said today there was little chance of a return to boom conditions in the UK economy anytime soon.