James Murdoch quits UK newspapers
James Murdoch steps down as executive chairman of News International, the UK newspaper business that owns the Sun and the Times titles......
ECB provides 530bn euros of loans
The European Central Bank provides a further 530bn euros ($713bn; 448bn) of low interest loans to 800 banks......
GM and Peugeot announce alliance
General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen announce a global alliance that will see them develop cars together......
Boots leaves unemployment scheme
Boots announces that it is withdrawing from the government's scheme to help the long-term unemployed......
Bernanke: US recovery continues
US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the US economic recovery is continuing but growth remains weak and unemployment high......
BA owner IAG sees profits climb
IAG, the parent firm of British Airways and Spain's Iberia, reports an increase in annual profits and revenues......
US GDP growth is revised up to 3%
The US economy grew at an annualised pace of 3% in the fourth quarter of 2011, government figures show, faster than previously estimated......
Pensions tax relief reaches 33bn
The amount of tax relief granted to people saving in registered pension schemes reached 32.9bn in 2010-11, figures from HM Revenue & Customs show......
Greece PM in bailout deal talks
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is visiting Brussels to seek final approval for a second round of bailout loans......
Downton Abbey boosts ITV profits
Profits at commercial broadcaster ITV rose by 14% last year thanks to strong advertising on Downton Abbey and the X Factor......
Mortgage approvals up in January
UK mortgage approvals hit a two-year high in January, Bank of England figures show, suggesting property sales could rise in the coming months......
Iran 'to accept gold for its oil'
Iran is to accept gold instead of dollars as payment for its oil, says the country's state news agency......
Pakistan makes India trade move
Pakistan will phase out restrictions on most imports from India by December 2012, the government announces......
Credit card write-offs hit 3.6bn
UK credit card companies wrote off 3.64bn in bad debts on their customers' cards in 2011, the Bank of England says......
Standard Chartered profits up 11%
Asian-focused bank Standard Chartered reports record profits for the ninth year in a row......
Work scheme benefits threat axed
Unemployed youths who agree to take part in an unpaid work experience scheme will not lose their benefits if they drop out, the government says......
Indian economic growth rate slows
The Indian economy sees its weakest growth rate in nearly three years as the manufacturing sector continued to slow in the last quarter of 2011......
Wall Street's Gekko gets FBI job
Michael Douglas, who played a greedy executive in the movie Wall Street, is the FBI's new spokesman against insider trading......
Cassava 'best for climate change'
The cassava plant could help farmers in Africa cope with climate change because of its ability to thrive in hot temperatures, a scientific report says......
Overhaul of police pensions urged
Ministers should make "wholesale" changes to the pension scheme for police officers in England and Wales, a think tank report recommends......
Nurses reject pension proposals
Nurses join other NHS workers in rejecting the government's latest plans on public sector pensions......
Stamp price rise is 'affordable'
Plans to increase the prices of stamps will not lead to an "affordability issue", the Royal Mail chief executive tells MPs......
German jobless rate holds steady
Germany's seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 6.8% in February, the Federal Labour Agency says......
US shares hit pre-crash landmark
The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 13,000 for the first time since May 2008, before the financial crisis, reflecting growing confidence in the US economy......
Obama creates US trade task force
US President Barack Obama creates a new trade body to crack down on unfair practices by US trading partners, including China......
Elpida shares plunge 98% in Tokyo
Elpida shares plunge 98% on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as investors dump the stock after the company seeks bankruptcy protection......
Weir's profits rise 30% to 396m
Glasgow engineering firm Weir Group beats its own targets and reports profits last year increased by more than a third......
'11bn profit' from Northern Rock
Northern Rock is expected to return a profit of up to 11bn to the taxpayer over the next 10 to 15 years, UKFI says......
Brazil body approves Fifa rules
A Brazilian congressional commission approves the draft of a law urged by Fifa to cover the 2014 World Cup, but sticking points remain......
Big queues likely at 2012 booths
Some of the most sought-after London 2012 Olympics tickets are to be sold at special ticket booths......
Wages shortfall hits Dunfermline
Dunfermline players and staff are not paid in full as the club await gate money owed by administration-hit Rangers......
VIDEO: Greggs suspends unpaid work placements
The bakery firm Greggs has suspended their participation in the government's unpaid work experience scheme after raising concerns over the possibility that participants could lose benefits if they did not complete the placement......
VIDEO: Nail bar boom defies economic slump
Many businesses are struggling in the current economic climate, but nails bars have seen a return to popularity in recent years......
VIDEO: Nuclear plant closes after 45 years
The world's oldest working nuclear power plant is closing down after 45 years......
VIDEO: ECB offers banks emergency cash
The European Central Bank (ECB) has provided a further 530bn euros ($713bn; 448bn) of low-interest loans to 800 banks across the European Union......
AUDIO: Ex-M&S boss backs work schemes
The government will meet companies on Wednesday as it attempts to draw a line under controversy surrounding its work experience initiatives......
VIDEO: Cool business: Ice cream school
Why so many Americans are turning to frozen desserts in their efforts to beat the economic downturn......
VIDEO: Hi-tech firm outgrowing Cambridge
A booming software company in Cambridge has switched it focus of growth overseas amid concerns about the UK's economy......
AUDIO: Ireland EU referendum 'winnable'
Dick Roche, Ireland's former minister for European affairs, reflects on an upcoming referendum where the Irish electorate will be asked if they support Europe's new fiscal treaty......
Kidding around in luxury hotels
London's luxury hotels target a tiny market.....
Small business questions answered
Our experts give advice on how to set-up and run a business.....
Dow Jones breaks 13,000
Charting the main US stock index's journey back to 13,000.....
If Britain were Greece...
If UK were like Greece, how bad would it be?.....
How to be a first-time buyer
How first-time buyers can secure a mortgage and buy a home.....
Why Chinese firms buy Western rivals
Chinese companies are on a buying spree for Western rivals.....
U.S. Day Ahead: Consumers make store sales rosy
Retail Analyst Jharonne Martis says shoppers are getting back on form with same store sales expected to punch through a key level......
Bill Gross' PIMCO Total Return ETF could transform industry
Feb. 29 - Bill Gross' PIMCO Total Return ETF launches March 1st. Analysts say it could convince a wave of mutual fund managers to launch ETF versions of their funds and lead to lower fees for investors......
Windows 8 gets public test drive
Feb 29 - Microsoft unveils the first widely available test version of Windows 8, giving the public the first chance to try out the slick, new-look operating system it hopes will restore the company's fading tech supremacy. Conway G. Gittens reports......
LIGHTNING ROUND: Munis will have good year - Nuveen's Miller
Feb. 29 - John Miller of Nuveen Asset Management answers rapid-fire questions on the municipal bond market and says growing state and local government revenues will give support to the securities.....
Romney faces Super Tuesday threat: Sabato
Feb. 29 - UVA political analyst Larry Sabato says GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may see a bounce after his Michigan victory, but is still likely to lose half of the ten states on Super Tuesday......
Fed Chief talks jobs
Feb 29 - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says US job market is far from normal in prepared remarks before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Rough cut, no reporter narration......
Trading at Noon: U.S. stocks off; Nasdaq cracks 3000 level
Feb. 29 - U.S. stocks are down, as Fed chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill. Also, the Nasdaq cracked the 3000 level for the first time in nearly 12 years......
Breakingviews: Wall Street trading
Rob Cox and Breakingviews columnists dig into whether the New York Fed's asset sales promote prop trading or plain old banking skills......
James Murdoch quits as News Int boss
Feb. 29 - James Murdoch, the younger son of Rupert, will relinquish his position as executive chairman of News International. Ciara Sutton reports......
Greeks protest over new austerity cuts
Feb. 29 - Greece's main public and private sector unions protested over a fresh package of austerity measures approved by the Greek government in return for the country's second bailout package of 130 billion euros. Hayley Platt reports.....
Banks suck up 530 bln euros ECB funding
Feb. 29 - European banks gorged on 530 billion euros at the European Central Bank's second offering of cheap three-year funding, fuelling hopes the credit will flow to businesses and that it will help ease government borrowing costs. Joanna Partridge.....
Morning Briefing: Schwarzman's massive pay, iPad's future
Feb. 29 - Blackstone Group's co-founder Stephen Schwarzman received $213.5 million in salary in 2011, and lawyers for Apple argue for its right to use the iPad trademark in China......
U.S. Morning Call: DOJ conducting Libor probe-sources
that the DOJ is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world's largest banks manipulated the benchmark libor rate......
Leading vitamin maker warns of unhealthy 2012
Feb. 29 - Dutch food and chemicals group DSM's CEO says he's cautiously optimistic about 2012 but very confident about 2013......
Round three: China's iPad scrap
Feb. 29 - The prize: Chinese rights to the iPad trademark. The combatants: mighty Apple, and cash-strapped tech firm Proview. Jon Gordon reports from China......
Breakingviews: Hollande's 75% tax proposals don't make sense
Breakingviews......
Reuters Today: Cheap ECB loans seen lifting sentiment
Feb. 29 - Markets should benefit from extra cash as European banks take up around 500 bln in 3-year loans.....
UK firms prepare for Games gridlock
Feb. 29 - Thousands of UK workers are swapping the office for the comforts of working from home as businesses tested ways of avoiding transport gridlock during this summer's Olympics. Nigel Stevenson reports.....
Obama defends auto bailout as Michigan goes to the polls
Feb. 28 - U.S. President Barack Obama gives a fiery speech to the United Auto Workers union, defending the auto bailout. Deborah Lutterbeck reports......
iPad 3 is expected next week
Feb 28 - Summary of business headlines: iPad 3 speculation rises after Apple sends press invite; Sony sells 1.2 million PlayStation Vita devices in debut; Yahoo urges Facebook to pay up or face lawsuit; Dow finally cracks 13,000 ceiling, oil falls. C.....
Market Pulse: Bank feeding frenzy eases credit crunch fears
Feb. 29 - European banks snap up a bigger than expected 530 bln in cheap ECB three-year loans......
Hollywood glamour at Main St. prices
Just 48 hours after the stars walked the red carpet at the Oscars, dresses emulating the hot looks are being made in hopes they will inspire consumers who want to buy in to that Hollywood glamour......
U.S. Day Ahead: Fed's Bernanke to stay cautious on economy
Correspondent Mark Felsenthal says Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke needs to temper expectations of growth when he gives his semi-annual testimony on monetary policy before a House panel......
Special Report: Iran's cat-and-mouse game on sanctions
reporters uncover how Iran's main shipping company, IRISL, evades European and American sanctions......
Samsung projecting rapid smartphone growth
Feb. 28 - Samsung has unveiled a new smartphone which allows users to display multimedia content on walls using an inbuilt projector, as the company aims to corner and even greater slice of the mobile market. Andrew Potter reports......
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke surprised at speed of fall in jobless figures
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has voiced surprise at the speed of the decline in US unemployment in recent months and warned that growth will have to accelerate if it is to be sustained.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feeds.....
Why I signed the Telegraph letter against the 50p tax rate
Rob Gill, director at financial advisers Coreco Group, says the 50p tax rate for high earners is forcing hard-working professionals out of the UK.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0be8f6/mf.gif' b.....
50p tax rate is damaging economy and delaying recovery from recession, warn 500 business leaders
The 50p higher rate of income tax is 'damaging the economy' and delaying the recovery from recession, more than 500 entrepreneurs and business owners warn.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0be8f5/.....
Debt crisis: live
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says scale of permanent bailout fund will not be decided at tomorrow's EU summit in Brussels, as 800 banks gorge on 530bn of cheap ECB loans.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com.....
James Murdoch could lose job as BSkyB chairman after News International exit, warns Crispin Odey
One of BSkyB's biggest investors has warned that James Murdoch's exit from News International suggests he will soon also lose his position as chairman of the pay-TV broadcaster.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/3272.....
Holding on to the chairman's job at Sky is beyond the limit for James Murdoch
When Rupert Murdoch chose his son James to join him at a crucial meeting with the Bancroft family in 2007, it was seen as a moment of anointment.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0b8542/mf.gif' bo.....
RSM Tenon to axe 300 jobs after 84m loss
RSM Tenon, the crisis-hit audit firm that issued a profit warning last month, delivered a miserable set of results that included a 60.7m impairment charge, an 84m loss and a 12m accounting restatement.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegrap.....
ECB's Mario Draghi raises the stakes with trillion euro gamble
The European Central Bank is doubling up on a very risky bet.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0b5d5c/mf.gif' border='0'/>.....
GM takes stake in France's Peugeot as part of European alliance
General Motors has taken a 7pc stake in French rival Peugeot as part of an alliance that the two car makers hope will revive their profits in Europe.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0b5a6b/mf.gif.....
UK Supreme Court rules all Lehman Brothers' former clients should have access to recovered cash
The task of sorting through Lehman Brothers' assets in the wake of the US bank's collapse took on new levels of difficulty after a UK court ruled that all of the bank's former clients should have access to recovered monies.<img width='1' height='1.....
Sir Mervyn King accuses banks of profiting at taxpayers' expense by rigging lending
The Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, has accused Britain's banks of trying to profit at the taxpayer's expense by rigging the Treasury's attempts to boost small business lending.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feed.....
HSBC predicts improved offer for Xstrata
Marriage was at the forefront of analysts' minds on Leap Day as they considered one of the mining industry's biggest potential unions - Glencore and Xstrata.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0b54e.....
ECB lends 530bn to European banks in bid to avert credit crunch
The European Central Bank has taken action to stave off a potentially disastrous credit crunch by lending 530bn (444bn) to 800 banks.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0b1ecd/mf.gif' border='0'/>.....
The UK tax system has reached breaking point
There have been almost as many memorable sayings about taxation over the years as about marriage, divorce and religion. Everyone knows the one about there being only two certainties in life - death and taxes. Here are a few others.<img width='1' h.....
FTSE 100: Investors switch on ITV as large-caps sink
Better-than-expected results pushed up ITV in morning trading, but the benchmark index sank into the red despite the latest flood of cash from the European Central Bank.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/5683.....
Standard Chartered unveils ninth successive record annual profit
Pre-tax profits at Standard Chartered increased 11pc in 2011 to $6.78bn (4.27bn), as the lender announced its ninth successive record annual profit.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0acce9/mf.gif'.....
Taylor Wimpey resumes dividend as profits rise
Taylor Wimpey, one of Britain's biggest homebuilders, resumed dividend payments for the first time since the housing crash, as it claimed that margins had risen.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0.....
Brussels moves to close tax loopholes across Europe
Brussels has launched a new draft paper aimed at stopping companies from exploiting tax loopholes in different countries across Europe.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0a7ba6/mf.gif' border='0'/&.....
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble rejects talk of bail-out fund at EU summit
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has sought to lower expectations ahead of Thursday's EU leaders' summit in Brussels, insisting the scale of the permanent eurozone bail-out fund will not be decided at the meeting.<img width='1' height='1.....
Healthcare Locums shares slump on US lawsuit
Healthcare Locums (HCL), the embattled nursing recruiter, saw its shares slump after the company and its former executives were sued in the US.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0aa75a/mf.gif' bord.....
This is News Corp's version of firing James Murdoch
The writing has been on the wall for James Murdoch ever since the phone hacking scandal came to a head last summer.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0aa75d/mf.gif' border='0'/>.....
Guinness maker Diageo lines up Ivan Menezes as successor to chief executive Paul Walsh
Diageo, the Guinness to Smirnoff maker, has paved the way for a successor to chief executive Paul Walsh by appointing the head of its North America business to a new role as chief operating officer.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.f.....
World Book Day: the world's most valuable books
To mark World Book Day on March 1, here are some valuable volumes.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d0a4581/mf.gif' border='0'/>.....
Rule change on work experience
The Government has bowed to pressure and removed the threat of benefit sanctions from a voluntary work experience scheme, following a meeting with scores of employers on Wednesday.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/3.....
Lazy home owners wasting 1.7bn a year
Big savings can be made by switching home insurance providers.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/1d09a3db/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/12769797.....
