General Electric Co expects profit to remain flat at its hefty finance arm next year, as losses and impairments on loans peak.
A British genealogy website has put Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's World War One military service records online, alongside those of more than a million other soldiers who fought for Germany.
Britain is to make online safety lessons for children over 5 compulsory under a new scheme which aims to echo road safety campaigns of the past.
Private equity firm Actis and Singapore oil services firm KS Energy on Tuesday announced plans for a joint venture that will distribute parts and equipment to oil companies in Asia and the Middle East
McDonald's Corp said sales at established U.S. restaurants fell 0.6 percent in November, marking the second straight month of declines at domestic outlets, and its shares fell 2.6 percent.
Tesco Plc, the world's No.3 retailer, posted quarterly sales growth toward the bottom end of forecasts, held back by a drop in food price inflation, but said a gradual consumer recovery remained on track.
British telecoms firm Daisy Group Plc posted a loss for the nine-month period and said it would cut jobs to integrate its acquired businesses but was comfortable with current market expectations.
The Australian Dollar opens higher against the greenback today at 0.9135.
Smart meters, which encourage consumers to cut energy consumption, are crucial for Britain to limit costs for achieving its ambitious 2050 greenhouse gas reduction target, an executive from National Grid said.
Independent News & Media Plc sold its Verivox Holdings Ltd unit for 16 million euros ($23.8 million) on Monday, taking its total from divestments this year to its target of 150 million euros.
British confectioner Cadbury said on Monday it would post a formal response to Kraft's $16 billion takeover offer on Dec. 14.
U.S. and British funds are interested in Italian utility A2A's asset disposal plan as well as direct investments, a spokesman said on Monday.
The number of prostate cancers diagnosed in UK men each year would jump from 30,000 to 160,000 if the country introduced population-wide screening for the disease, new research shows. However, many of those cancers are low-risk and may not lead to death.
World stocks slipped on Monday from last week's 14-month high while the dollar hit a five-week peak as investors grew convinced U.S. interest rates could rise soon after the previous session's robust jobs report.
Ratings agency Moody's said on Monday it did not expect to take any ratings actions against U.S. insurance companies because of Dubai World's $26 billion restructuring.
British confectioner Cadbury said on Monday it would post a formal response to Kraft's $16 billion takeover offer on December 14.
A United Nations climate summit should lay the foundations for a global carbon market or UK business will suffer as firms move to countries with lower emissions targets, business lobby group CBI said on Monday.
The Australian Dollar opens lower today at 0.9130 after a stronger than expected jobs report on Friday night bolstered the greenback. The U.S. Labour Department report showed that 11,000 jobs were shed in November, far less than the 125,000 expected by financial markets, pushing the unemployment rate back down to 10 per cent. The Aussie once again ran into strong resistance just beneath the US93 cent mark before falling quite sharply on the U.S. employment news hitting an overnight low of 0.9107...
Americans face the seemingly intractable dilemma of having to reduce their levels of debt but not so rapidly as to derail a nascent economic recovery.
Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest online retailer, has no plans to open stores anywhere in the world, it said on Sunday, in response to a report it was planning to open high street shops in Britain.
Amazon.com Inc , the world's largest online retailer, is planning to open high street shops in Britain to complement its Web site, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
German climate activists posing as international leaders sat inside a giant aquarium which was filled with water on Saturday in a protest held in Berlin against the world's rising sea levels.
