When it comes to the high street, few can rival Bill Grimsey's footfall. �Veteran retailer� is the phrase he uses to describe himself on the cover of Sold Out, his hard-hitting manifesto on the future of the high street that is attracting the attention of ministers and ...

Federal Reserve officials both expect and want inflation to be higher than it is. So far, that isn't happening. Consumer price data released Tuesday showed inflation rose a mere 1.4% in May from a year earlier.

Mark Carney, the governor-designate of the Bank of England, has made his first senior appointment, recruiting Charlotte Hogg, daughter of titans of the British establishment, as the central bank's first chief operating officer.

The polarisation of the high street is showing no signs of slowing as new data reveals that discount chains Aldi and Lidl, along with high end grocer Waitrose, have won more customers this year than any of their supermarket rivals.

Two companies owned by the BBC's new reality star Neville �Big Nev� Wilshire - who appears in the fly-on-the-wall documentary The Call Centre - have been fined �225,000 for making nuisance calls.