Business

Ordinary investors will be awarded 'bonus' shares in NatWest Group if they hold onto stock they acquire in the taxpayer-backed bank, under a plan expected to be finalised by ministers later this month.

A former top Post Office lawyer has been accused of telling the Horizon IT inquiry a "big fat lie" over his knowledge of a bug in the system that could have stopped wrongful prosecutions of sub-postmasters in their tracks.

Official figures have raised fears of a deepening public sector drag on the UK's economic recovery from recession.

Entain, the FTSE 100 gambling group, has been rebuffed by the former bosses of bookies Coral and Sky Bet in its hunt for a new chief executive.

HSBC is set to become the latest major international bank to remove the European Union-imposed bonus cap that had applied to its UK-based workers.

Tech giant Apple has recorded the biggest drop in iPhone sales since the early months of the COVID pandemic.

Goldman Sachs is removing a cap on bonuses for London-based staff, paving the way for it to resume making multimillion pound payouts to its best-performing traders and dealmakers.

One of the world's leading economic authorities has warned the UK that borrowing should remain expensive until the rate of price rises eases further and stays there.

Novo Nordisk, the maker of anti-diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, today displayed again why it has become Europe's biggest company by stock market value during the last year.

Ian King looks at news that Europe's biggest company Novo Nordisk is once again raising its sales and profits forecasts for the year.