A report quoting the EU's Michel Barnier spurs hopes of a Brexit deal, bolstering the fragile pound.

Andrew Tinkler was part of a campaign to oust the Stobart Group's chairman, a court hears.

British American Tobacco falls 9.5% while Imperial Brands down 3.5%

Theresa May's Brexit deal appears to be on a knife-edge, which rivals including Ryanair's Michael O'Leary say would be catastrophic of IAG.

After a positive start, the FTSE 100 has dipped into the red. The pound is down almost 1 per cent against the dollar amid concerns over Brexit. Diageo is selling 19 brands in $550m deal.

Tens of thousands of mortgage holders in the UK are unable to switch to cheaper deals despite keeping up with monthly payments as a result of stricter lending rules.

Executives are paid scandalous amounts of money to ensure RBS runs smoothly and doesn't have to resort to paying over the odds for people to handle tasks like the PPI review

The brands being sold include Goldschlager schnapps, Canadian whisky Seagram, Romana Sambuca as well as Peligroso tequila and other smaller brands, the group said today.

The fund manager, who earned a reputation as one of Britain's best stock pickers during his time at Invesco, has seen the value of his main fund halve since last summer.

Energy minister’s remarks help lift price, with Opec likely to confirm move next month Oil prices have staged a recovery, climbing above $70 a barrel after Saudi Arabia said the world’s major crude producers agreed that supply needed to be cut significantly next year. The kingdom’s energy minister, speaking after a meeting of Opec at the weekend, said the cartel believed that production would need to fall by nearly 1m barrels per day (bpd) on October levels.

Shares in BAT and Imperial Brands tumble after reports suggest the US will ban menthol cigarettes.

IAG addressing need to comply with EU airline ownership rules, according to report

I was given a nominal amount of approximately £1,500 from his state pension and £100 per month for six months and I’m told this is it. No more.

The group was set up after the French tyre firm announced plans to close its Dundee plant with the loss of 845 jobs.

They inherited poorly performing economies that bred widespread social and political discontent and both leaders unwisely followed the traditional European recipe of 'labour reforms'

Wages aren't rising by much, but as employers struggle to fill vacancies, workloads certainly are

Howdens approach seems to work. It is the UK market leader by a significant margin and the shares have come on in leaps and bounds.

Titanium dioxide makes stuff white. It is in toothpaste, sun cream, moisturiser and make-up. Base Resources is a successful operator in the sector and looks cheap.

BAT and Imperial Brands slide as FDA considers menthol ban and tougher e-cigarette rules British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands saw £7bn wiped from their stock market value as US regulators prepare to crack down on the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes and menthol cigarettes. Shares in BAT, the sixth-biggest company in the FTSE100 and maker of brands including Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, tumbled by 11%, sending its market value plummeting from £76bn at close on Friday to £69bn on Monday. The tobacco company’s share price has slumped by almost 40% over the last year.

Broadband customers are paying an extra £230 per year in loyalty penalties according to new research. This loyalty trap costs a collective £3.94billion per year.

'In Germany, people look at this and are aghast at what is happening,' says Terry Sargeant

The US president and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro will repopulate the swamp rather than drain it Following Emmanuel Macron’s election as president of France in May 2017, global elites breathed a sigh of relief. The populist wave, they reassured themselves, had crested. Voters had regained their sanity. Helped along by an electoral system in which the two leading candidates faced off in a second round, the “silent majority” had united behind the centrist candidate in the runoff. But now we have Brazil’s presidential election, in which Jair Bolsonaro, who displays the authoritarian, anti-establishment, and anti-other tendencies of a textbook populist, won decisively in the second round. A two-round electoral system in which the runoff pits a populist outsider against the last mainstream candidate standing is no guarantee, evidently, that the centre will hold.

Where in the world you spend your retirement will affect how much state pension you get. Find out where annual rises are frozen, like Australia, and the countries where you get them automatically.

Our insurance claim has been rejected for my student son’s share of the holiday costs as he was 22 when I booked, but this was not clear in the document.

Research by provider Ford Money suggests more than half of all savers suffer from apathy – leaving our savings to languish for five years or more.

Analysts have warned the suppliers would need to pump in extra cash to satisfy credit rating agencies that the new business, valued at £3 billion, deserves an investment grade rating.

I won’t need the rental income once I start getting my state pension in six months’ time

It was overcrowded and standing passengers were jammed down the aisles

Finalising Brexit is the ‘single most important action required to restore confidence’ Confidence among manufacturing firms has slumped to its lowest level for more than a year, a new study suggests. Research by business advisers BDO LLP indicated a “concerning turnaround” in the fortunes of the sector.

Trades Union Congress concerned over tech being used to control and micromanage Britain’s biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security. UK firm BioTeq, which offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 implants in the UK.

Online subscription providers – offering games, quizzes and lottery updates – have signed up customers deceptively without their knowledge or consent. But, now, that could all be over.

Could it be that investors are currently too fearful and that there are opportunities for those brave enough to take a different view?

Bosses at Stobart Group will appear in court this week over its ousted founder’s failed bid to replace the firm’s chairman with secretive businessman Philip Day.

After a decade battling supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury’s to attract customers, you’d have thought Mark Price had earned the right to take things easy.

Exclusive: ministers seeking to make firms pay more towards recycling their own waste Supermarkets, retailers and major drinks brands are set to pay tens of millions of pounds more towards recycling their used packaging under the government’s new waste strategy expected to be published this month, the Guardian understands. Supermarkets and other major producers of packaging waste currently pay a small fraction of the cost of collecting and recycling the 11m tonnes of packaging waste produced in the UK.

Ousted Persimmon boss Jeff Fairburn will pocket an extra £21 million on top of the £75 million bonus already lined up, we can reveal.

Shadow chancellor may seem to have moved right, but he has avoided Hammond’s trap It has been a curious couple of weeks in the life of John McDonnell. On the morning after the budget, the shadow chancellor went on the Today programme and was asked whether Labour would reverse the income tax cuts announced by Philip Hammond the previous day. McDonnell said he wouldn’t and – for once in his life – found himself under fire for not being leftwing enough. McDonnell has had something of an image makeover in the past year, coming over more bank manager than the revolutionary firebrand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism. Like one of his predecessors in the job, John Smith, he has made a point of touring the City to explain Labour’s economic policy to big finance.

A net ten per cent of surveyors said house prices fell last month, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has reported today.

Since the financial crisis, fund managers who have favoured a growth strategy – hunting for companies with rapidly rising sales, earnings, margin or all of those, no matter the cost – have outperformed.

Are you trying to save for retirement, make the most of your income in old age, navigate the state pension maze, or just feel baffled by some bit of pension jargon?

The Financial Conduct Authority is considering letting people who previously had claims rejected to have them revisited - affecting 150,000 people.

A government review into the shortage of female executives – due to make its final report this week – has exposed amazingly backward attitudesSunday is the day that, by rights, no one could really complain if women in the UK simply downed tools and put their feet up for the rest of the year. Equal Pay Day, which fell on Saturday, reflects the disparity between the wage deals enjoyed by men and women. The

The typical one-bed home in England costs £600 a month to rent, but this hides a big divide across the country.

The collapse of Toshiba’s project underlines the fact that new nuclear is a more unreliable proposition than wind and solarToshiba’s

Housebuilding boss Jeff Fairburn saved millions because of the method used to cut his share bonus.

Tampons, drones and more surprising innovations from World War One that changed the world.