The number of first-time buyers rose by almost a fifth last year, according to data from Halifax. The bank said 2024 saw 341,068 people buy their first properties, up by 19% from 2023. While the figur...
The US president has promised to target countries which charge tax on US imports by matching them with a reciprocal tariff. Donald Trump has ordered his team to start calculating duties by early April...
Deep under the Bank of England, in a network of vaults into which cameras are rarely admitted, sits the world’s second biggest known trove of gold. Once upon a time the Bank’s vaults stored bullion ow...
The boss of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has said she is “appalled and disgusted” by the sex trafficking claims against her predecessor Mike Jeffries. Fran Horowitz, who has led the US-based company sinc...
Taken at face value Donald Trump’s embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime shock to global commerce. In promising t...
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is exploring launching private criminal proceedings against NatWest Group over the debanking scandal which resulted in the lender’s former chief losing her job. Sky N...
The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has indicated the number of regulators overseeing British industry and commerce could be reduced as part of the government’s pursuit of economic growth. Speaki...
In The Style is on the brink of insolvency less than two years after the then London-listed online fashion retailer was forced into a fire sale to a family office investor. Sky News has learnt that FT...
The UK economy grew fractionally during the final three months of 2024, according to early official figures, which ease the immediate risk of a recession. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) repo...
The world’s biggest theme park operator has begun exploring a sale of some of its aquarium assets as it seeks to prioritise investment in its biggest international sites. Sky News has learnt that Merl...
Unilever, the London-based consumer goods giant, has revealed it is to demerge its sprawling ice cream business with a primary stock market listing in Amsterdam. The announcement, alongside its 2024 r...
Yes there are all sorts of provisos. The UK economy is still flatlining. A 0.1% expansion is about as close as you can get to zero. Gross domestic product per head – a better measure of our living sta...
