Joining some of the UK's top bosses at a meeting of the Prime Minister's business advisory council in Downing Street yesterday, CBI president Sir Roger Carr said politically motivated attacks on businesses' tax arrangements could have damaging ...

FirstGroup, the train and bus operator, has turned to shareholders for �615m, scrapped a final dividend and parted company with its chairman in an effort to reduce its debts and avoid a credit rating downgrade.

Mon May 20, 2013 12:17pm EDT. * FTSE 100 ends at highest closing level since Sept. 2000. * FTSE 100 closes up 0.5 pct at 6,755.63 points.

The European Commission investigation into the possible manipulation of energy price benchmarks has widened, with Brussels seeking new information from trading houses, including Glencore, following last week's raids on oil majors.

Households struggling with rising costs were told in no uncertain terms today to expect the squeeze on their incomes to continue for the foreseeable future as the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club warned above target inflation would be a fact of life for at ...