Engineering firms topped and tailed the benchmark index yesterday. There was a contrast in fortunes for IMI and Melrose.

George Osborne has been accused of resorting to “smoke and mirrors” to give himself a fighting chance of hitting his self-imposed debt reduction targets.

Four men, including one of the most senior bankers in the City, were today charged with insider trading by the leading finance watchdog.

The South African mine that saw 34 of its workers shot by police suffered further disruption today after only one in five wildcat strikers reported for duty.

The South African mine at the centre of the violence that saw 34 people gunned down resumed production today after nearly a third of its staff returned to work.

International inquiries into the Libor-fixing scandal are soon to result in arrests, it was reported yesterday, but UK authorities still appear to be lagging their international peers.

Chancellor George Osborne faces fresh political embarrassment this week as the nation's number-crunchers condemn the struggling UK economy to a third successive quarter of recession.

There is not much worse than being promised something before it is cruelly snatched away. That's the situation in which unimpressed investors in Resolution found themselves yesterday after the insurance conglomerate cancelled a £250m handout.

Punters in Drax will be forgiven for wishing politicians would just get their act together. The power station operator has been waiting on tenterhooks for the government to make a decision on green energy subsidies, seen as vital to its future plans and, according to some, its takeover potential.

If anything should go wrong for Jessica Ennis's bid for Olympic gold this summer, she could always consider banking.

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