After approaching record highs, stock markets tumbled last week over fears of a global slowdown. What next for the equity sugar rush?

New entrepreneurs and disruptive businesses are the future of our economy, writes Jonnie Goodwin , founder of Lepe Partners.

Think Tank: The big challenge facing SMEs keen to come back to the UK is how to find and access the resources they need in a painless way, writes Rachel Bridge .

A survey has shown 20pc of us regret being a hasty home owner.

More and more people are joining the ranks of the self-employed but it can also make your finances more complicated.

With 'unregulated' assets such as wine there's no comeback if things go wrong.

The decimation of pensions and planned salary cuts promise hard times for the older generation

The Faster Payments scheme will celebrate five years in the UK on Monday, with 2.5 billion payments processed since its launch.

Google is aiming to massively expand the number of people with access to the internet, by rolling out services across the developing world.

The electronics and gadgets retailer Maplin has seen profits fall by a third as the company battles challenging market conditions and invests in modernising its stores.

After quenching the thirsts of beer drinkers for 800 years, one pub is calling last orders for pints.

The head of the International Monetary Fund has been made an "assisted witness" in a case of alleged embezzlement and fraud.

HSBC will “significantly reduce” its use of tax havens, the bank’s chairman, Douglas Flint, has said.

BP, Shell and Statoil have been named in a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged oil price rigging, following the launch of a European Commission investigation into the oil giants.

The Co-op is considering selling or even shutting down its struggling banking business as it looks for ways to fill a capital black hole.

The Co-op has launched a wide-ranging review into its banking business, which will address all options, including a possible sale or wind down, as it looks for ways to fill a capital black hole.

Just days after Yahoo! sealed its $1.1bn for Tumblr, the technology company has reportedly made a bid for Hulu, the online video site partly owned by News Corporation.

Germany's push for wind and solar and its retreat from nuclear power is driving electricity costs to untenable levels and destroying support for the green agenda, the International Energy Agency (IEA) ...

It cost £98.4m of licence fee payers’ money and became a five-year folly but the BBC’s new Director General, Lord Hall, has finally put its Digital Media Initiative out of its misery.

Chile's environmental authorities have fined the world's largest gold miner $16.4m for "serious" violations at its unfinished mine near the border with Argentina.

Rupert Murdoch will use News Corp's split to tighten his grip on the media empire he founded, by introducing a new rule that makes it difficult for other shareholders to build significant voting stakes ...

Next shares slide after a note from Morgan Stanley "encouraged" investors to take profits and invest in competitor Marks & Spencer.

EDF Energy has been forced to halt both reactors at its 1,280 megawatt (MW) Torness nuclear plant near Edinburgh after a rising tide of seaweed threatened to clog its cooling system.

Mortgage lending fell for an unprecedented fourth month running in April and companies repaid £2bn, as Britain’s ongoing credit squeeze showed little sign of abating, figures from the British Bankers’ ...

UKIP founder Nigel Farage is courting powerful City donors amid increasing anti-Europe sentiment among the UK’s business elite.

A lack of digital investment and the shrinking number of local subsidiaries owned by large firms is sending Southern European states on a "backwards slide" to an analogue age, a new study has ...

Apple has been dealt a blow in the legal row over whether it fixed the price of ebooks, after a US judge said there was strong evidence that the technology giant was involved in a conspiracy with publishers....

Britain's blue-chips closed out the week on a downbeat note as investors continued to sell equities on both sides of the Atlantic ahead of two bank holidays in Britain and America.

It's all very well for politicians to showboat by condemning multi-nationals. It is their job to make tax laws fit for the internet age, writes Charlie Elphicke MP

Telegraph consumer champion Jessica Gorst-Williams secures large payout for one reader after bank's mistake.

Couples can use two pension plans to improve on the normal 25pc, reports Richard Evans .

People living close to new wind farms will receive at least £100 off electricity bills under a scheme announced by a renewable energy company.

Royal Bank of Scotland customers were unable to access their accounts through its mobile banking app on Friday morning following another IT failure.