A senior investment banker and his wife have been charged with insider dealing in the latest prosecution brought by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the City regulator.

The RPI measure of inflation, used by employers as a gauge for pay deals, will now be calculated using a wider range of mortgage rates which will give a fairer indication of Britons’ cost of living.

Liberty, the London department store, will raise £41.5 million after striking a deal to sell and lease back its mock Tudor store close to Regent Street.

A worldwide fall in sales of the Toyota Prius has prompted a significant cut in production of the best-selling green car by the Japanese motor giant.

Gordon Brown today demanded that the Unite union call off its planned British Airways cabin crew strike, a dispute which the Prime Minister said was “unjustified” and “deplorable”.

Sterling fell by nearly two cents this morning after Kate Barker, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, warned that the British economy could shrink again.

Brian Myerson, the activist investor, quit as chairman of D1 Oils today after his fellow board members and other shareholders rebuffed his attempt to engineer a reverse takeover of the troubled biofuel company.

French Connection today announced the sale of its Nicole Farhi business to an American private equity group as part of an effort by the fashion brand to stem millions of pounds worth of losses.

An official Chinese investigation into the failed $19.5 billion merger between Chinalco and Rio Tinto casts a dramatic new light on the high-profile collapse, exonerating the Australian miner and blaming China's own dealmakers for political naivety.$

Further damaging revelations about the collapse of Lehman Brothers are being held up in the US courts by Barclays.

Britain’s second-largest residential broadband provider is preparing to switch its entire workforce to Apple laptops.