Boeing earnings missed analysts’ estimates for just the second time in five years as executives grapple with one of the worst crises in the aircraft-maker’s century-long history.

Apple analysts are cautiously optimistic about the company expanding its services business, a move they see as offering long-term growth potential.

Marks and Spencer has poached the head of UK car-parts seller Halfords to lead the turnaround of its struggling clothing business, handing one of the industry’s toughest tasks to a fashion novice.

Standard Life, Scotland’s largest insurer, agreed to acquire Aberdeen Asset Management for about £3.8bn (€4.4bn), a deal that would create the UK’s largest active manager.

Apple is piling onto lawsuits that attack the way Qualcomm licenses technology for mobile phones in a widespread effort to rake back profits in a slowing market.

A former official with the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) who is facing jail for leaking potentially commercially sensitive information told investigators he thought he was advancing the interests of the agency.

British takeover target Home Retail reported improved trading at its Argos stores and a bigger-than-expected cash pile yesterday, a week before a deadline for bids.

Twitter’s efforts to improve user engagement and growth rates are taking longer than expected to gain traction, prompting a wave of rating and price target cuts on the stock.

Troubled insurer RSA may have to sell its best assets, leaving it concentrated in slow-growing markets such as its British home patch, to raise up to £1bn (€1.15bn) and safeguard its credit ratings.

IT’S an odd one, this concern that Government chief whip Paul Kehoe has with the dangers allegedly posed by electronic cigarettes.

James Bond came to the rescue of Cineworld today after new figures showed the release of Skyfall helped drive a turnaround in revenues during last year.

Domino's Pizza said more than half of UK delivery orders were placed online over the summer as stay-at-home Britons boosted the takeaway chain.

Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp said yesterday that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies.

James Murdoch yesterday resigned as chairman of BSkyB to prevent his links to a phone-hacking scandal undermining the group, whose broadcast licence is under scrutiny in Britain.

The FTSE 100 Index pushed closer to a six-week high after retail stocks surged following a better-than-expected update from bellwether Marks & Spencer.