Andrew Davies, chief executive of Kier Group, was on a shortlist put forward to the prime minister for the new role last month but recently withdrew, according to three people familiar with the ...

The M&A boom expected at the outset of Trump’s administration is on the horizon ...

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, which of Dorothy’s companions was played by Jack Haley? What was the aristocratic title of the British prime minister born William Lamb?

Gregory Stoller is a master lecturer at Boston University Questrom School of Business. Earlier this year, the JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon made a town hall speech at an employee event in ...

Spain’s wiretap contract runs against Brussels’ message that EU countries should impose restrictions on “high-risk suppliers” ...

Aardvark’s Polymath puzzle on Saturday gets geographical, seeking knowledge about the third of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks alongside Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent (9), the only landlocked region on the ...

Capital gains tax applies to the profits made when assets such as businesses, second homes and shares are sold. It is currently taxed at between 18 and 32 per cent — following chancellor Rachel Reeves ...

Rachel Reeves faces “significant challenges” in delivering the UK government’s policy agenda while sticking to her self-imposed fiscal rules, the IMF has warned, as it renewed its call for the ...

Meta said the TTPA regulation introduces “significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties” and has thus decided to no longer allow such ads on its platforms in the EU. This limitation only ...

Perhaps in anticipation of a rough ride under the new administration, Powell in January pulled the Fed out of the global central banking network for tackling climate risk. But his international peers ...

Five years after the buying frenzy, the market is having another significant recalibration — some are calling it the five-year itch ...

In his first novel since winning the International Booker, the Bulgarian writer tells a very personal story about the decline and death of a once-proud patriarch ...