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Britains’ gold-plated sovereign credit rating has suffered another blow after Standard & Poors became the third major agency to downgrade the outlook to ‘negative’. The change means there is a ‘one-in-three chance that we...

The US Federal Reserve renewed its efforts to support the still weak American economy today, unveiling a fresh round of bond buying and, in a landmark move, tying critical interest rate decisions to the...

Rangers Football Club, the Scottish team that has spent the last two years in financial disarray, are about to float on London’s junior stock exchange (AIM) in a listing led by investment bank Cenkos....

The chief executive of HSBC and a string of top bankers will lose a slice of their bonuses and will have future payouts deferred after Britain’s biggest bank was hit with a record fine...

Mario Monti is in talks with centrist groups urging him to stand in Italy’s elections early next year it emerged on Monday as pressure mounted on the technocrat prime minister from the financial markets,...

A whistleblower at the heart of a bribery investigation at Rolls-Royce has been fighting for more than six years for his claims to be heard. The British engineering group has been accused of handing...

Antrim Energy LON:AEY & Premier Oil (LON:PMO) its partner, have plugged and abandoned the Cyclone well in the UK North Sea after failing to find commercial oil. The well in UK block 21/7 reached...

Starbucks has taken the ‘unprecedented’ step of pledging to pay 20m pounds corporation tax, even if it makes no profit – only for the move to appear to backfire and fuel the fiasco surrounding...