Marks and Spencer is braced for an annual hit of £40mn from sustainability taxes, laying bare the mounting costs UK retailers face beyond those arising from Labour’s October Budget . The FTSE 100 ...

Long-standing squeeze on capital spending leaves hospitals like Queen’s Medical Centre managing failing infrastructure ...

London’s stock market is a better option than New York for a flotation as companies run the risk of “disappearing” in the crowd in the US, according to the chief executive leading one of the largest ...

When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque ...

Trouble at the Office for National Statistics means policymakers cannot rely on key economic numbers, including on employment ...

Jens Stoltenberg has rejected accusations that Norway was a “war profiteer” for selling record quantities of oil and gas to Europe after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

One might say something similar about Vincent van Gogh, who was told at the age of 28, “You are no artist . . . You started too late.” Almost every one of his masterpieces was painted in the last two ...

As responses go to the problem of overseas homebuyers, Pedro Sánchez went nuclear. In an effort to arrest his country’s “grave” housing crisis, the Spanish prime minister recently proposed that non-EU ...

Volatility can signal investor fear but also offer an opportunity to clear minded buyers. Among professional portfolio managers, views vary on what action to take to protect their clients’ funds. Some ...

After the re-election of President Donald Trump, bond investors looked to the US for signs of the next large sell-off in their market. But are they looking in the wrong place? Investors should ...

Plus, an anaemic start to the year for dealmaking in the US and talks over a $58bn Japanese carmaker deal fall apart ...

Minimalism is perhaps the easiest fashion trend to pull off: the less you do, the better. A handful of brands are propelling today’s practical and durable minimalist agenda forward, convincing ...