HSBC Holdings is to hand its new chief executive a pay package potentially worth more than £15m as part of an overhaul of its bosses’ remuneration triggered by the government’s scrapping of the EU bon...
The Bank of England has cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point, bringing down the cost of borrowing to 4.5%. And in a sign that households can expect more cuts in the months to come, t...
Let’s start with the simple bit: interest rates have been cut – down by another quarter percentage point to 4.5%. But what happens next? Not long ago, the answer was quite simple: the Bank of England ...
The government’s plan to meet housebuilding targets by building on the so-called grey belt is “rushed” and “not properly thought through”, according to a Lords committee report. The grey belt policy i...
Demand for electric vehicles accelerated in January, with fully battery-powered cars outperforming an overall contraction in the car market that the industry blames on declining business and consumer ...
Planning rules will be ripped up to make it easier to build new nuclear reactors and create thousands of highly skilled jobs, the government has announced. The reforms are the latest in a series of pr...
Ewan Venters, the former Fortnum & Mason chief, is joining the board of Paul Smith Ltd, the design company best-known for its striped fashion garments. Sky News understands that Mr Venters, who recent...
Tesco has expressed interest in acquiring more than 100 Crown Post Offices whose future has been placed under review as the state-owned company explores shifting them to a franchise model. Sky News ha...
US imports racked up a record monthly high in December as companies rushed to secure products in advance of trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. Official figures showed a 3.5% leap in imports compar...
Britain could do a slimmed down trade deal with the United States within months, the last politician to oversee negotiations with Donald Trump’s administration over a UK-US agreement has told Sky News...
The shake-up of official employment data, used to help set interest rates and other crucial public policy, could see members of the public obliged to complete the survey to help bolster accuracy. The ...
