The FTSE 100 has closed at its highest level for more than 12 years, finishing 32 points up on the day at 6,756. That leaves it just short of the FTSE's all-time highest finish - the level of 6,930 reached in December 1999.

WASHINGTON - Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most ...

Australia's dollar held its biggest gain in two months against the greenback before the release of minutes today from the Reserve Bank's last meeting, when it cut borrowing costs to a record low.

The bosses of some of Britain's largest multinational corporations have urged David Cameron to stop moralising and rein in his rhetoric on tax avoidance ahead of a G8 summit next month.

Scotland has been held back by past and present UK governments, Holyrood's SNP administration has claimed. In a paper, to be published later, it cites six areas where Westminster has pursued policies said not to have been in the best interests of Scotland.