Isda set to offer new CDS insurance policy
The $6 trillion credit default swaps market is to upgrade its cover for banks for the first time in a decade.....
Bank card thefts 'soaring at ATMs'
Attempts to steal people's bank cards and Pin codes while they are using cash machines have tripled over the past year, according to figures......
Bank holds rates and QE measures
The Bank of England keeps its stimulus programme unchanged and holds interest rates at 0.5% at the last meeting under governor Sir Mervyn King......
Probe into chocolate 'price-fixing'
The food giants Nestle and Mars, along with a distribution company, have been charged by authorities in Canada over alleged price-fixing of chocolate.....
Help to Buy off to 'flying start'
The government's flagship Help to Buy housing scheme has got off to a 'flying start', as the Halifax reports that prices are now rising by 2.6% a year......
Premier League revenues set to soar
Premier League clubs revenues rose to a record 2.4bn in 2011-12, and should rise to more than 3bn in the coming season, says Deloitte......
Eurotunnel Dover ferries blocked
The UK Competition Commission rules that Eurotunnel will no longer be allowed to operate a ferry service from Dover......
Locals to get more say on wind farms
Local communities in England are to be given more powers to block onshore wind farms, but also offered greater incentives to accept them......
London Market Report
London Market Report.....
ECB cuts eurozone forecast
The European Central Bank (ECB) has revised down its eurozone growth forecast as it voted to hold rates at historic lows......
FBI and Microsoft hit theft botnet
A huge botnet that helped steal $500m has been broken up thanks to co-ordinated action by the FBI and Microsoft......
UK defends China telecom firm deals
The government defends UK deals with Chinese firms - amid warnings that security risks in infrastructure contracts were being "overlooked"......
Network Rail sees its debt increase
UK railway infrastructure firm Network Rail's net debt, which is guaranteed by the government, rise above 30bn......
EU proposals to take control of Libor
European authorities are to propose bringing control of the inter-bank lending rate, Libor, under the supervision of a Paris-based regulator.....
Customs 'missing smuggling targets'
HM Revenue and Customs has failed to meet any of its targets on reducing the smuggling of illicit tobacco into the UK, a watchdog says......
IMF admits mistakes on Greek bailout
The IMF admits mistakes in handling Greece's first bailout, saying its growth forecasts were too optimistic and a debt restructuring should have been considered earlier......
Greece seeks to woo US investors
Greece launches a charm offensive on investors in New York, as the country's alternate finance minister declares "the worst is behind us"......
UK services sector in strong growth
The UK economy is 'firing on all cylinders' after the latest services figures show strong growth......
Electric heating 'up by 282'
Millions of people who use electricity to heat their homes may have to pay 282 more a year by 2020, it is being claimed......
900,000 owed premium bond payouts
Officials are trying to track down 898,000 bond holders who are owed 44m in premium bond prizes.....
Fixed fines for middle-lane hoggers
Motorway tailgaters and middle-lane hoggers are to face quick justice with on-the-spot penalties under new measures announced by the government......
French jobless rate climbs again
French unemployment rose to 10.8% in the first quarter of the year - its highest level in 15 years, figures show......
Latvia to be 18th eurozone member
Latvia is set to become the 18th country to use the euro after being approved for membership by the European Commission......
France criticises Chinese wine probe
The French government calls a Chinese anti-dumping probe into wine imported from the European Union "inappropriate and reprehensible"......
Club drops pay-day loan firm sponsor
Bolton Wanderers FC drop plans to be sponsored by pay-day loan company Quickquid after fans and politicians protest against the move......
Mercedes respond to tyre test claims
Mercedes say they "welcome" the chance to justify taking part in what rivals say was an illegal tyre test......
Southend pay latest HMRC arrears
Southend United pay an outstanding tax bill, meaning a High Court winding-up petition will be dismissed on 24 June......
VIDEO: Locals to have more say on wind farms
Local communities in England are to be given more powers to stop onshore wind farms while at the same time being given more incentives to accept them......
VIDEO: The moment Turkish stocks fell
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says controversial plans to redevelop a park in Istanbul will go ahead despite mass protests......
VIDEO: Giant X-ray fights cigarette smugglers
Angus Crawford visits a checkpoint in eastern Europe to see how they are trying to prevent cheap cigarettes being smuggled into the EU......
AUDIO: 'Great opportunity' for football clubs
Premier League clubs' revenue reached a record 2.36bn in 2011-12, according to football finance experts at Deloitte......
VIDEO: Could canals help move more freight?
Could the UK's waterways help reduce congestion on our roads by transporting more freight?.....
VIDEO: Cameron: Social investment matters
Prime Minister David Cameron has been speaking out about the importance of social investment in order to tackle issues such as homelessness, drug abuse and youth unemployment......
AUDIO: Today business round-up
The Today programme's business news with Simon Jack......
VIDEO: Shell: Europe must 'compete' on energy
The head of oil giant Shell has told the BBC that Europe faces a growing struggle to compete with the US because of the cheap energy released by fracking.....
Turkey's financial fragility exposed
Protests expose Turkey's financial fragility.....
The company that started a trend by accident
The big business of selling small samples by post.....
Online small print 'not enforceable'
Some company agreements may not be enforceable in law.....
Infosys: Narayana Murthy's uphill task
What the return of iconic founder means for India's Infosys.....
Fukushima's lessons from nuclear disaster
Re-building schools after the Fukushima disaster.....
U.S. Day Ahead: U.S. jobs report still only game in town
June 6 - Investors be biting their nails until 8:30 Friday morning, when the jobs report is released and a collective sigh of relief or anguish will heard around the globe......
Sex, drugs and hedge funds
Turney Duff, a former trader at Galleon Group and author of "The Buy Side," talks to Rob Cox about the financial industrys compromised ethics and his own struggles with addiction on Wall Street......
Who should succeed Ben Bernanke?
June 6 - Federal Reserve historian Allan Meltzer believes the Fed's controversial stimulus program will end badly for the U.S. economy.Here's who he thinks should be running the Federal Reserve after Bernanke......
Preparing for the end of the QE world
June 6 - Warnings are heating up that as debt rates rise, fixed income investors could get scorched. Bobbi Rebell reports......
Techquity: Mobile and cloud computing boost networkers
Jun 6 - The shift from desktop computers to mobile devices using cloud computing gives a lift to internet infrastructure firms......
Daily Digit: SodaStream $436 million thirst quencher?
Jun 6 - SodaStream booked global revenues last year of more than $436 million with its do-it-yourself soda-making system, but Pepsi denies it is talks to purchase the company. Conway G. Gittens reports......
Breakingviews: The perils of Big Data
June 6 - The U.S. secretly collecting Verizon phone info may be well-intentioned. But as on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, argue Rob Cox and Breakingviews columnists, how it's used is the worry......
IMF mea culpa too late for hard-hit Greeks
June 6 - Greeks reacted with a mix of vindication and outrage at the International Monetary Fund's admission it erred in its handling of the country's bailout. Edward Baran reports......
ECB holds rates but sees recovery
The European Central Bank leaves interest rates on hold at 0.5 per cent, and predicts a gradual recovery later in the year - but warns against complacency. Kirsty Basset reports......
Trading at Noon: GM's cash pile in focus at annual meeting
Jun 6 - General Motors is taking another step towards recovery by returning to the S&P 500 after four years. The automaker also announced it is expanding its maintenance program to boost customer loyalty......
ECB's Draghi cautiously optimistic
June 6 - The European Central Bank keeps interests rates on hold at a record low of 0.5 percent, adding that improving economic data suggested a recovery was slowly but surely on its way. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)......
Wealth Strategies: Investor confidence coming back - LPL
June 6 - LPL Financial president Robert Moore says his investment advisers are seeing increased confidence in the market as investors recognize an improving economy and better job creation......
Wealth Strategies: Clients more confident but still nervous
June 6 - Paul Reilly, CEO of Raymond James Financial says clients are cautiously getting back into the equity market but an underlying nervousness exists......
Daily Digit: Is Libor heading to Paris?
June 6 - EU regulators are considering shifting Libor rate fixing - the basis for pricing $300 trillion worth of financial products - from London to Paris. Sonia Legg reports.....
Europe Day Ahead
June 6 - A look to the close of the European markets and a look ahead to the next day's trading, as well as what to expect from the Asian markets overnight......
Fighting talk from ECB's Draghi, markets unimpressed
June 6 - No change from ECB, and the door is opened to negative deposit rates. But Draghi's bullish, defiant tone grates with investors......
U.S. Morning Call: SodaStream takes the Pepsi challenge
Jun 6 - PepsiCo is in talks to buy Israel's SodaStream for $2 billion, but the at-home soda machine maker is also entertaining the prospect of joining Coca Cola......
Singapore's Hin Leong bets on emerging Asia's thirst for oil
about his plans for Myanmar and East Timor......
Market Pulse: Will we see a 100B QE splurge from Carney?
June 6 - The BoE keeps policy on hold, but might incoming governor Mark Carney unleash 100 bln more QE? BNP Paribas thinks so. Plus, the Aussie dollar tumbles again, Johnson Matthey shares shine brightly......
Made in where? Apparel brands look to new Asian frontiers
June 6 - Attention shoppers: Southeast Asia is the emerging hotspot for apparel manufacturing, with cost and safety concerns driving global brands to shift sourcing from stalwarts China and Bangladesh......
Reuters on the Road: Question Popping with The Proposers
June 6 - We pop questions to Daisy Amodio of The Proposers about her bespoke proposal planning service......
Reuters Breakingviews: Don't give up on Japan
Breakingviews......
Reuters Asks: Marks out of 10 for Mervyn King
June 6 - After a 20-year-decade at the Bank of England, Mervyn King has stepped down from the top job. We ask experts and analysts to give King's tenure a mark out of ten......
Reuters Asks: What's on top of Carney's to do list?
June 6 - Mark Carney takes over as Bank of England Governor on July 1. We ask experts and analysts whats the most important thing Carney needs to look at first when he takes over......
Reuters Today: Will ECB wait and see?
June 6 - The ECB is expected to leave monetary policy unchanged today, but will inaction move the markets?.....
Heathrow looks to build third runway to south-west
Heathrow Airport is said to be changing its plans for a third runway and considering building a new one to the south-west of its site, rather than to the north.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf1.....
EU's unaccountability poses a danger to global economy
No one should underestimate the importance of the IMF's report on the Greek debt crisis.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf14dc4/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border.....
Labour doesn't keep its word on spending
Telegraph View: Ed Miliband's pronouncements on taxpayers' money are all too familiar<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf14dc5/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0.....
If the Labour Party won't spend, what's the point of it?
Labour hasn't faced up to its huge overspending, but neither has the Coalition got to grips with Britain's ever-growing national debt, says Jeremy Warner<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf14dc8/mf.....
Nestle and Mars charged with chocolate price fixing
Canada has charged two of the world's biggest chocolate makers, Nestle and Mars, with colluding to fix the price of their products.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf1405a/mf.gif' border='0'/>&.....
EDF doesn't have us over a barrel in Hinkley nuclear talks, says Michael Fallon
Ministers and EDF still disagree on "five or six" issues over the building of Britain's first new nuclear plant in a generation, Michael Fallon has said, insisting the French company does not have the Government "over a barrel".<img width='1' heig.....
Sainsbury's woes should be a warning to Tesco
There was one word in Tesco's latest trading update that perhaps said more about the challenges facing Britain's biggest retailer than any number. That word was "flat".<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/56830.....
Marc Bolland's pay falls by a third after Marks & Spencer profits slide
Marc Bolland, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer, has seen his annual pay package fall by a third after a slide in profits for the high street retailer.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf1.....
Hard-line ECB washes hands of jobless crisis, sees no 'Japanese' deflation
The European Central Bank has refused to take any further measures to lift the eurozone out of recession and curb rising unemployment, counting on spontaneous recovery later this year to do the job.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.f.....
Sports Direct to close 20 Republic stores after landlord row
Sports Direct is to close 20 Republic stores after two of the UK's biggest property companies rejected a proposal to renegotiate the leases.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf127a8/mf.gif' border=.....
G4S annual meeting stormed by protesters
Protestors stormed G4S's annual meeting, as the firm was berated over its Israeli prison contracts and the death of an Angolan man.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf12a87/mf.gif' border='0'/>&.....
G4S annual meeting stormed by protesters
Protestors stormed G4S's annual meeting on Thursday, as the firm that failed to provide enough security guards for the London Olympics was berated over its Israeli prison contracts and the death of an Angolan man.<img width='1' height='1' src='htt.....
Share placing hits Barclays
The bank was the biggest faller on the FTSE 100, which also headed south.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf097dc/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr&.....
China-EU trade war a risk for UK growth
The beginnings of a trade war between China and the European Union could escalate into a damaging battle that might hurt the UK, economists have warned.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf09261/mf......
Cadbury maker Mondelez creates chocolate that doesn't melt
Mondelez is close to introducing heat-resistant bars it can sell in some of the world's hottest places.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cf0423f/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'>&.....
Business news and markets: as it happened - 6 June, 2013
ECB President says the council did discuss a negative deposit rate but said that while the central bank "stands ready to act" there was no reason to do so right now.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s.....
Business news and markets: live
ECB President says the council did discuss a negative deposit rate but said that while the central bank "stands ready to act" there was no reason to do so right now.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s.....
Bankers hired to work on IPO of estate agency Foxtons
Estate agency has appointed bankers to work on a float which could take place within months, continuing the run of property companies cashing in on rising sentiment around the sector.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/.....
Ofgem considers regulation of energy price-reporting agencies
Energy watchdog Ofgem is considering whether to impose regulation on price-reporting agencies after allegations of price-rigging in the oil and gas markets, which could have affected prices paid by consumers.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://t.....
Ofgem considers oil price investigation
Energy watchdog Ofgem is considering whether to impose regulation on price-reporting agencies after allegations of price-rigging in the oil and gas markets, which could have affected prices paid by consumers.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://t.....
Here's how the Government can help the micro-business boom
When I left a director-level job at a UK subsidiary of a US corporate giant in 1986 with my colleague, Clare Francis, to start a micro-business we didn't have a clue what we were doing.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.co.....
Twitter sceptic Sir Martin Sorrell signs up WPP for advertising deal
Twitter has agreed a global deal with WPP to cement its role as a major player in online advertising and marketing.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cee79c6/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf.....
Brussels dismisses 'plainly wrong' IMF criticism over Greece
The Brussels executive has responded with barely contained fury to a Fund report, drawn up by its staff in Washington, which identified "notable failures" in the EU-IMF bailouts of Greece, beginning in 2010.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://te.....
How interest rates changed during Sir Mervyn King's ten year reign
Sir Mervyn King retires as Bank of England governor at the end of June. We look back at how interest rates changed during his ten years at the top of Britain's central bank.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/.....
Cremation fees soar as cash-strapped councils seek to balance the books
Councils were today criticised for plugging holes in their finances by forcing through inflation-busting increases in funeral costs.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/2cee77ae/mf.gif' border='0'/>.....
