The top accountancy regulator is to investigate the auditing giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) over its role at RSM Tenon the much smaller accountant which this year found enormous "black holes" in its own accounts.

High street retailers reported a greater-than-expected slowdown in sales growth this month, the CBI said today, amid poor weather and weak consumer confidence.

Mohamed Bin Hammam's lifetime FIFA ban imposed for allegedly paying bribes has been annulled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

House prices will take nearly two decades to fully recover the damage wrought by recession and financial crisis, PriceWaterhouseCoopers warned today.

Nearly three-quarters of shops put on sales in recent days as gloomy weather compounded the misery on the high street.

Britain is struggling to attract some of the world's top business talent because of tough new immigration rules, undermining hopes of economic recovery, the Prime Minister has been warned.

Up to 850 jobs at the bankrupt Coryton oil refinery in Essex are likely to be lost after administrator PwC announced it has failed to secure a rescue deal – despite talking to more than 100 potential investors and purchasers of the operation.

An oil refinery which went bust is to close after administrators failed to find a buyer or the cash needed to keep it going, putting around 850 jobs at risk.

Executives are so confused by the complicated pay packages lavished on them by remuneration committees they are no longer motivated by them, a study has claimed.

Up to 900 jobs at the bankrupt Coryton oil refinery in Essex are hanging in the balance, with the deadline for a rescue deal due at midnight tonight.

RSM Tenon, the listed accountant that embarrassingly discovered "black holes" in its own books, is interviewing for a new auditor.

Britain's financial sector is continuing its bounce-back from the recent downturn, despite widespread concerns about the rest of the country's economy, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will say today.

The name Areias do Seixo roughly translates as "pebble beach", and the property plays to its rugged, coastal location with a motif of purity and nature. But Areias do Seixo's curveball is that it is a modernist glass and concrete construction on a protected patch of Portugal's Costa de Prata ("silver coast"), between Lisbon and Porto.