Alibaba and Yahoo have reached a deal that paves the way for the US internet group to fully exit its stake in the Chinese ecommerce company, bringing an end to long-running and often bitter negotiations ...

Ed Miliband will on Monday eject the "snobbery that assumes the only route to social mobility runs through university", as he commits Labour to raising the status of vocational training.

The Institute of Directors has endorsed a radical proposal that recommends replacing part of the UK tax system with a single income tax rate of 30 per cent and reducing the government's share of the national ...

Just as investor protests against executive pay grow louder, a survey claims that executives are not motivated by deferred bonuses and complex incentive schemes.

The squeeze on household incomes remains tight as spending power diminishes and most surveyed feel their living costs have risen over the past year, two reports published on Monday show.

What can you do in the moments between raindrops? Because the equity markets can cause a thunderous upheaval in that amount of time.

Alfie Cheyne is a battler. Since leaving school at 16 with few qualifications, he has ridden waves of industrial transformation to build a thriving manufacturing business, Ace Winches, which exports 74 ...

Detailed planning must start urgently on a £15bn north-south rail link for London to avoid the capital's underground system "grinding to a halt" in the next 20 years, the government has been ...

Covered bonds, a centuries-old mainstay of the European markets, may get a big boost in the US after the Securities and Exchange Commission loosened restrictions on who can buy the bundled mortgage debt....

As investors and policy makers hunt for growth in Britain's struggling economy, farming rarely gets a mention among the sectors positioned to drive recovery.

The headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development stand in the heart of London's financial district. Yet since they were won by the City two decades ago - in a trade-off for backing ...

Sir Stuart Rose, the former chairman and chief executive of Marks and Spencer, once quipped that "weather is for wimps".

By turning its back on Coty's unsolicited $10bn-plus bid, and staying that way for six weeks, Avon Products (NYSE:AVP) sent a clear message to the market - it believed it could create more shareholder ...

Ministers will announce this week which companies have been awarded £350m of contracts to begin design work on a new fleet of submarines to carry Trident, as the Conservatives look to reassert their commitment ...

David Cameron refused on Sunday to express any sympathy over the death of Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber.

Britain's "mums" are feeling gloomier about the future with their confidence slumping in the first quarter, according to Asda, Britain's second-biggest supermarket chain by market share.

Henderson Global Investors, one of the world's leading fund managers, will on Monday launch its first asset management business in Australia as it seeks to expand its operations beyond the troubled shores ...

Despite eurozone gloom, 2011 was a pretty good year for MBA hiring. Insead and London Business School both published bumper employment data. And according to a poll by the Graduate Management Admissions ...

,Today's business school students are increasingly failing to grasp how to network effectively and the vital importance of building strong relationships with diverse classmates. As a result, they are missing ...

David Cameron on Sunday rebuffed those on the Conservative party right who want an in-out referendum on Britain's EU membership, opening up the possibility that the prime minister will be outflanked on ...

While running the country as George III's prime minister, John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, found time to amass an Old Master collection acknowledged as the greatest in the UK before the French revolution; ...

Over the course of this season Janine Jansen has shown a different side to her art at Wigmore Hall. Stepping aside from her usual role as a concerto soloist, the Dutch violinist has presented a rounded ...

A hundred metres from the redeveloped docks of Ipswich, in the shadow of an unfinished high rise, the site of a former icing sugar factory proves a headache to local bus companies.

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's chief policy adviser, left Downing Street last week to begin a sabbatical in California, leaving behind a trail of trouble for the prime minister. Last week it was reforms ...

The populist Tomislav Nikolic won Serbia's presidential run-off on Sunday in an upset that unseated Boris Tadic after eight years and raised questions over the future pace of Serbia's integration with ...

Barack Obama warned of "hard days ahead" in Afghanistan on Sunday as Nato leaders meeting in Chicago tried to plot a path out of the country that does not open the way to civil war.

Israel has attacked a legal move by South Africa that would force merchants to provide a special label for goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, slamming what it said was a decision ...

Companies charged with implementing the government's flagship welfare-to-work programme have for the first time acknowledged they may not be able to meet its targets for getting benefit claimants into ...

The credit ratings of emerging and developed markets are starting to converge, in a formal recognition by rating agencies of a seismic shift in financial markets.

Manufacturing surveys from around the globe this week are likely to provide little respite from the upsurge in bearishness provoked by the latest flare-up in Greece's crisis.

It is nearly dusk at Holt Hall, north Norfolk. Fragments of sun and drizzle; great, windy trees.

Mark Zuckerberg updated his relationship status over the weekend to "married", topping off a week of momentous events for the Facebook founder - from his 28th birthday last Monday to taking his ...

Stock market analysts beware. When Jay-Z and Kanye West released their opulent collaboration Watch the Throne last August, the US lost its triple A rating and Wall Street suffered the worst day of trading ...

North Korea released a number of Chinese fishermen and boats on Sunday two weeks after seizing them, ending a rare public dispute between the two allies, Chinese state media reported.

D&D, the restaurant group formerly known as Conran Restaurants, has put its 30 restaurants up for sale to fund expansion in London and emerging markets.

A former Fidelity Management portfolio manager already found to have committed market misconduct is due before a tribunal on Monday to learn whether he will be banned from trading in Hong Kong for selling ...

Millions of German industrial workers look set to receive an annual pay rise of about 4 per cent after employers' and labour representatives reached a deal at the weekend.

Bob Greifeld, Nasdaq OMX chief executive, says he is "humbly embarrassed" by the delay in the opening of Facebook's initial public offering for trading, but is in talks with regulators over potentially ...

Vince Cable, business secretary, has vowed to resist "bonkers" proposals to allow bosses to fire underperforming staff at will, as coalition tensions flared over a Number 10-inspired report on ...

Chinese solar panel manufacturers are making plans to source components from Taiwan in order to get around US anti-dumping tariffs of at least 31 per cent announced by the department of commerce last week....

Prudential is nearing the end of its five-month search for a chairman after lining up Paul Manduca, the board member who led the hunt for external candidates for the position, according to people familiar ...

Fresh violence erupted in Damascus on Sunday, activists said, in a further indication of the deteriorating security situation in Syria's previously tightly-controlled capital.

Hedge funds and private equity firms have amassed almost €60bn to buy loans from stricken European banks in coming years as many of the continent's lenders seek to shrink their way to health, according ...

For two weeks last month, Kim Youngha, chief executive of Samsung Electronics China, was unavailable for any meetings at his Beijing office. He was instead travelling 5,000km by road through rural China, ...

Samsung has admitted to concerns over "worrying" weakness in Chinese consumer spending as customer sentiment, damped by government austerity measures, turns against spending on technology products....

Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), the Swiss banking group, is considering the sale of JO Hambro Investment Management, its UK private client wealth management business.

Regulators and central bankers in the US and UK are crafting the world's first concrete plans to protect the broader financial system in the event that any of seven leading cross-border banks were to collapse....

Italy's most powerful earthquake in three years has killed at least six people and forced several thousand to flee their homes in the northern region of Emilia Romagna where many small enterprises and ...