Business

UK’s biggest pubs group Stonegate struggles to refinance £2.2bn debt pile

Owner of 4,400 UK pubs including Slug & Lettuce chain says no guarantee it can continue as going concern

Rob Davies

09, Apr, 2024 @4:47 PM

M&S invests £1m in tackling methane from burping and farting cows

Retailer works on changing diet with aim of cutting 11,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year

Sarah Butler

09, Apr, 2024 @4:13 PM

Gold hits fresh record high; Fitch downgrades Thames Water parent company – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as gold rises almost 1% today to $2,365 per ounce

Graeme Wearden

09, Apr, 2024 @2:53 PM

Shell’s former chief fuels fears it could quit London for New York

Ben van Beurden says company is undervalued in UK and US investors are ‘more positive’ about fossil fuels

Jillian Ambrose

09, Apr, 2024 @1:21 PM

Australia’s Macquarie among lenders to Thames Water’s parent company

Controversial investment bank could play important role in fate of Britain’s biggest water firm

Julia Kollewe

09, Apr, 2024 @10:27 AM

UK retailers given hope of ‘green shoots of recovery’ after Easter pickup

Sector enjoyed best month in more than two years in March, consumer spending report shows

Larry Elliott Economics editor

08, Apr, 2024 @11:01 PM

Labour plans £5bn crackdown on tax avoiders to close non-dom spending gap

Funding needed after Tories adopted Labour policy to pay for tax cuts will be used for school breakfast clubs and NHS

Phillip Inman

08, Apr, 2024 @9:30 PM

Mocking the Abrdn name is ‘corporate bullying’, says chief investment officer

Peter Branner accuses press of making ‘childish jokes’ about rebrand, which would not be acceptable if firm was a person

Kalyeena Makortoff

08, Apr, 2024 @5:57 PM

John Lewis staff brace for shake-up as ex-Tesco UK boss named group chair

Frontline retail veteran Jason Tarry will take over from Sharon White when she steps down in September

Sarah Butler and Rob Davies

08, Apr, 2024 @5:03 PM

Ex-Tesco man Jason Tarry looks to be just what John Lewis Partnership needs | Nils Pratley

After years of losses or low profits JLP has picked a chair who has deep experience of retailing at its most brutally competitive

Nils Pratley

08, Apr, 2024 @4:45 PM

Global economic risks ‘could eclipse anything since second world war’, says JP Morgan boss

In annual letter to investors, Jamie Dimon warns ‘wars in Ukraine and Middle East could become far worse’

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

08, Apr, 2024 @4:18 PM

Jaguar Land Rover sales jump 22%; 15 Ted Baker stores to close, with 245 job losses – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news