A second shareholder advisory firm has said that investors in JP Morgan should vote for a non-binding proposal to split Jamie Dimon's responsibilities and appoint an independent chairman.

Is age finally catching up with him, and is Berkshire Hathaway now just too big? That’s what the throng of fans at today’s ‘Woodstock for capitalists’ will be asking

Facebook's revenues soared by 38 per cent over the first quarter, the social network said yesterday, as it earned more from mobile ads and grew its user base to over 1.1 billion active users every month, up 23 per cent in year on year terms.

Two men charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, the third with making false statements to investigators

Signs that the US economy remains weak, along with evidence that the budgetary impasse in Washington is restraining growth, have convinced policymakers who gathered for the latest meeting of the US Federal Reserve to stick with the extraordinary stimulus measures put in place to support the recovery.

American regulators hit RBS subsidiaries with sanctions worth nearly $14m (£12m) yesterday. RBS Citizens was fined $5m and ordered to pay more than 250,000 customers $2.5m in total for inaccurate or misleading information on overdrafts.

Fresh from announcing it will return $100bn (£64bn) cash to its shareholders, Apple tapped the bond market for the first time yesterday, in what could be the biggest ever US debt sale.

Robert Downey Jr brought some Hollywood glamour to the New York Stock Exchange trading floor yesterday, ringing the opening bell to promote his new movie, Iron Man 3.

Judy Clarke has secured life sentences instead of the death penalty for high profile clients