By Matt Scuffham and David Milliken. LONDON | Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:36am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is ready to start selling its shares in Lloyds Banking Group and will examine whether to break up Royal Bank of Scotland, Chancellor George ...

Ian Livingston has been lured from helm of BT to become David Cameron's Trade minister, banging the drum for UK exports and inward investment.

In introductory remarks, Federal Reserve Chariman Ben Bernanke said the Fed is reviewing its exit-strategy principles set out in June 2011.

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, ...

Britain should lead the way in producing genetically modified food because it would lower prices and free up the countryside, Owen Paterson will argue today.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said his successor and the U.K. banking industry have �unfinished business� to do in reforming the financial system and reviving the U.K.

The Financial Conduct Authority has fined a �sale and rent back� agent nearly �1m for deliberately misleading vulnerable homeowners, the largest ever fine for a sole trader.

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.

While sales of trainers and tracksuits at JD Sports are sprinting along, the group's camping and other clothing stores have not quite broken out into a jog so far this year.

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.