Business

The thing about trade, and the economics of trade, is that it is simultaneously desperately boring and desperately important.

Lower stamp duty thresholds introduced at the start of the month are being widely blamed for the biggest monthly decline in UK house price growth since August 2023, according to a major lender's measure.

It's 6.25pm on Monday 2 June 2014 and my heart is racing.

The chief executive of Barclays has launched a staunch defence of Britain's bank ring-fencing regime even as his main rivals lobby the government to abolish it less than a decade after its introduction.

As we approach another Bank of England base rate decision next Thursday, the markets are expecting to see a cut from the Monetary Policy Committee, writes Anna Bowes, savings expert from The Private Office.

Alex Mahon, the Channel 4 chief executive, is to become the new boss of the live entertainment group behind Cornwall’s Boardmasters festival.

Two coffee companies have had adverts banned for making the "misleading" suggestion that their coffee pods and bags could be composted at home.

On the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, factory workers at Dony Garment have been working overtime for weeks.

Every week we ask an expert to answer your financial problems or consumer disputes in the Money blog. Today, we tackled this issue sent to us by a reader in Shropshire, who writes:

The sugar tax currently imposed on soft drinks could be applied to milkshakes as the government seeks to crack down on rising obesity levels.