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.

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.

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 ...

Ryanair is aiming to achieve further growth at the expense of European flag carriers in the next five years, as it announced a 16 per cent increase in underlying operating profit for 2012-13.

More than 800 flats in the Battersea Power Station development in London have been sold for �675m. The owners of the Grade II listed power station, which has lain dormant since it stopped generating electricity in 1983 despite numerous outlandish ...