If your idea of a nature hike involves driving an elusive ball over acres of meticulously manicured greens, then bookmark this list of premier putting destinations created with golf enthusiasts in mind, ...

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German households are paying for ever cheaper wholesale power supplies to industry as the government uses money from soaring domestic bills to subsidise renewable energy, in ...

Some economists are fond of reminding clients every now and again that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.

The FTSE 100 registered moderate falls in early trading on Friday in aftermath of a series of disappointing economic figures, as markets pulled back after a strong showing over the last two weeks.

South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of platinum with steroids thrown in. But Pretoria could never manipulate the platinum price the way the Middle Eastern kingdom can influence oil's and talk of a platinum ...

UK small caps rise 0.2 percent, outperforming a flat blue-chip index but slightly lagging mid-caps, up 0.3 percent. Shares in Ocean Wilsons Holdings rise 0.8 percent as the majority-owner of Wilsons Sons, ...

ACS, Bayer, EADS, Enagas, Gas Natural, Inditex, Mapfre, Mediaset, Mediaset Espana, REE

Stock markets worldwide continued to take the cumulative concerns about a slowing Chinese economy, a possible exit by the Fed from its 'quantitative easing' policies and the risk of further Eurozone tensions ...

Severn Trent topped the leaderboard after it confirmed press speculation that it has received a bid approach from a consortium of investors, which is rumoured to value the UK utility company around 5.3bn ...

Holidaymakers can backdate compensation payment to 2005, if their flight has been delayed by at least three hours.

Strong gains in the utilities sector after a takeover approach for Severn Trent and some well-received results from Babcock International weren't enough to lift markets into positive territory by Tuesday ...

The founder of MoneySavingExpert.com says holidaymakers can backdate compensation payment to 2005, if their flight has been delayed by at least three hours.

The FTSE 100 finished with slight gains on Monday, extending the recent winning streak into its eighth day, as markets shrugged off concerns over stimulus measures in the US and disappointing economic ...

Sales of palladium from Russian state stocks are likely to contribute less to supply this year and "in the foreseeable future" than they did in previous years after falling by two-thirds in 2012, ...

Top global platinum producer South Africa lost at least 750,000 ounces of output last year to strikes, shaft closures and government-ordered safety stoppages, metals refiner Johnson Matthey said in a report ...

Demand for platinum from Japan's car industry rose 20 percent in 2012 thanks to a recovery in production but both look set to fall back this year, platinum specialist and refiner Johnson Matthey Inc said ...

Bioquell: Investec shifts target price from 136p to 141p and keeps a hold recommendation.

Spain's 'indignants' protesters demonstrate in Madrid on May 12, 2013, to decry economic injustice in a show of strength two years after their birth shook the political establishment.

The coming week will see the economic data release schedule pick up again in almost all the major geographical areas. Critically - perhaps - they will come in the aftermath of this weekend´s G7 meeting ...

Rapeseed production is likely to fall in the European Union, top grower of the oilseed, from the 2015 harvest after the bloc voted to protect bees by banning three of the most widely used pesticides. The ...

Quindell Portfolio dropped 28pc on mounting concerns over a derivative contract.

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Holidaymakers are being charged up to £12 every time they use an overseas cash machine.

Evraz was making strong gains by the afternoon, recovering some of its recent losses. Possibly worth mentioning, Goldman Sachs has today reportedly reaffirmed its bullish short-term stance on copper prices....

Disappointing economic from the States saw the FTSE 100 halve its earlier gains by the close on Wednesday as markets waited in anticipation of a policy decision from the Federal Reserve later this evening....

BT Group shares were leading the risers on Wednesday after signing a 10-year deal with o2 to create a new 4G network worth in the region of 500m pounds.

Life sciences-focused software company Veeva Systems is planning an initial public offering that could come in the third quarter and has selected banks to lead the deal, according to two people familiar ...

UK retailer Next is set to reveal its first quarter results Wednesday - a month after posting annual profit growth.

Shares in Wacker Chemie gain 3.1 percent as traders say slightly lower than expected first-quarter profits numbers are not preventing a rebound following a steep decline since the end of February. "There ...

An EU ban on pesticides believed to kill bees will mean "significant costs" for British farmers, the Government warned tonight. Environment Minister Lord de Mauley issued the warning after the ...

The European Union will ban three of the world's most widely-used pesticides for two years because of fears they are linked to a plunge in the population of bees critical to the production of crops. The ...

The following FTSE 100 companies will go ex-dividend on Wednesday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the latest dividend payout. According to Reuters calculations at current market prices, ...