The fillip for Britain's banks which came with the swoop by Santander on Alliance & Leicester has been short-lived

It is too early to say whether this week's wobble in the oil price marks the top, but there are reasons to think it might

JP Morgan managed to make profit of $2bn in the last three months despite the global banking crisis but boss Jamie Dimon was not optimistic about the future

One of the City's favourite Indian restaurant groups, Tiffinbites, expanded massively today with the £4.4m acquisition of Bombay Bicycle Club

Online auctioneer eBay has surprised Wall Street with a 22% increase in second-quarter profits through strong growth of its PayPal payments system

This summer's fashion for 'glamping' - glamour camping - is putting some colour into sales at Blacks Leisure

Wall Street Journal is to axe about 50 editorial staff in a production revamp initiated by editor Robert Thompson

Analysis: With the credit crunch dragging on, it's no wonder troubled financial institutions and Western governments are taking more interest in sovereign wealth funds

Microsoft's profit may be eroded this year by a resurgence in software piracy in China, where 80% of applications are copied illegally, according to research today

Thousands of job cuts and store sell-offs are on the cards at Somerfield after the Co-operative Group finalised its £1.57bn takeover of the supermarket chain

Lloyd's insurers are braced for their biggest profits decline since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2002

Electricals group DSG International suffered a fresh blow today when finance director Kevin O'Byrne jumped ship to rival retailer Kingfisher

Ryanair is to stand down a quarter of its fleet at Stansted and close seven continental European bases before Christmas

Each week we round up share tips from national newspapers and investment magazines

Oil prices remained flat today after yesterday's big falls, with US crude remaining near $135 a barrel

The City watchdog today slapped its highest fine on a City firm for market abuse. Winterflood Securities has been provisionally fined £4m

Calloway Green is launching ClickTrans, a translation tool that combines machine translation with human expertise and accuracy so clients' website ...

Myebook.com, a web-based ebook community, is launching to give people the tools to create book content. Every aspect of publishing content is cove ...

NAKMAS is awarded the Foundation level of the Equality Standard: AFramework for Sport. The award recognises that NAKMAS not only welcomes but ac ...

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