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.