In the past few weeks, Sir Alex Ferguson, the longest-serving and most successful football manager of modern times, and Paul Walsh, one of the longest-serving and most successful CEOs in the FTSE 100, ...

HSBC’s chief global economist has written a compelling but dark account of the challenges facing the West. Philip Aldrick considers the chilling claims.

The company behind Greyhound buses and the First Capital Connect rail franchise is poised to tap shareholders for £500m in new funds months after it lost out in the fiasco over the West Coast mainline. ...

The long-serving chairman of the FirstGroup transport business, Martin Gilbert, is set to resign next week and the company launch a £600m rights issue.

The Financial Times' website and Twitter feeds were hacked on Friday, renewing questions about whether the popular social media service has done enough to tighten security as cyber-attacks on the news ...

Freeport LNG became the second project on Friday to receive approval from the U.S. Department of Energy to export domestic natural gas to non-free trade agreement nations. Freeport can export 1.4 billion ...

A round-up of the biggest director deals today so far.

- Better than expected economic data

The website of British newspaper the Financial Times was hacked on Friday, apparently by the "Syrian Electronic Army", a group of hackers and on-line activists who say they support Syrian President ...

Infrastructure investment company International Public Partnerships (IPP) said its portfolio of 22 assets "performed well" in the first four months of the year.

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.

SES , one of the world's largest commercial satellite operators, suffered a decline in earnings in the first quarter after last year's switch-off of analogue transmissions to Germany. However the company ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the subject of a takeover battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the company's billionaire founder, reported a 79 percent slide in profit as personal computer ...

After a subdued start, the FTSE 100 pushed into positive territory ahead of the opening bell in New York with financials leading the rise after a broker upgrade.

David Beckham's easy charm and image as a family man will ensure the brand built up by Britain's richest sportsman will prosper long after the end of his playing days. The former England captain, 38, said ...

Music mogul and rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs will not be appearing in British period TV drama "Downton Abbey," U.S. broadcaster PBS said on Wednesday, despite tweets saying he would be ...

Barratt Developments: Deutsche Bank lowers target price from 336p to 327p, while leaving its buy recommendation unaltered.

Some U.S. stocks to watch on Thursday: DOW, S&P FUTURES TURN LOWER AFTER U.S. DATA Dow and S&P 500 index futures turned lower after U.S. weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rose in the latest week and housing ...

Fitch Ratings has placed Thomas Cook Group plc's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating and senior unsecured rating on Rating Watch Positive . Fitch has also assigned expected ratings of 'B+ ...

The FTSE Small Caps Index rises 0.1 percent in mid-session trading, in line with a similar rise on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index but underperforming a 0.5 percent gain on the FTSE 250 mid-cap index. Media ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German media conglomerate Bertelsmann's broadcaster RTL warned a tough European market meant it was still not sure profit would match last year's level after a first-quarter rise. ...

The FTSE Small Caps Index is down 0.1 percent in early trading, underperforming a flat blue-chip FTSE 100 index and a 0.3 percent gain on the FTSE 250 mid-cap index. Optos slumps 15.8 percent after the ...

Dividend income accounts for around two-thirds of total returns, the actual rate of return taking into account both capital and income appreciation. Given that share prices are often volatile and unpredictable, ...

TalkTalk said its annual profits tumbled 21pc as it invested in growing its broadband-based television service to compete with rivals BT, BSkyB and Virgin Media.

Starbucks admits it has not paid any of the millions in 'extra tax' it volunteered to give the government in December as Google insists it did not mislead MPs over tax.

Dust down the jewels and the chequebooks. Hedge fund godfather Lord Stanley Fink and his business partner David Johnstone have filled the gap left by last month’s demise of the Ark hedge fund extravaganza ...

Northern Irish broadcaster UTV Media Plc said its first-quarter revenue fell 5 percent, hurt mainly by a weak performance at its British radio business, which includes the popular sports radio station ...

German media group Bertelsmann reported an 8.6 percent gain in first-quarter core operating profit, after recently winning full ownership of music rights company BMG and lowering costs. The privately held ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British telecoms operator Talk Talk said it was "firmly on track" to achieve its targets after demand for its new TV and mobile services helped the once struggling group to ...

Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc , a publisher of financial magazines, journals and data products, reported an 8 percent rise in first-half profit as it cut costs to offset a decline in subscription ...

Publishing company Mecom Group Plc said it appointed veteran investment banker Rory Macnamara as non-executive chairman, making Chairman Stephen Davidson chief executive. Macnamara, currently the chairman ...

The FTSE 100 was continuing to trade within an extremely tight range on Thursday morning as investors consider how much further the rally will go given that the index is already trading at levels not seen ...

Billionaire investor John Paulson bet more heavily on mortgage insurers during the first quarter, which suggests that his hedge fund expects the housing recovery to grow stronger in the months ahead. Between ...