Money

Britain’s manufacturing sector has shrunk in the past decade by almost 600,000 jobs to leave fewer than 3 million workers employed in the sector. A study by the GMB union found that every region in the UK has...

The future of the embattled House of Fraser department store chain was hanging in the balance this weekend, as deadlock between its Chinese owner and lenders threatened to scupper its planned rescue package. The GMB and shopworkers’ union...

The owner of Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks has improved its £1.6bn offer for Virgin Money in an attempt to create Britain’s sixth-largest bank, with 6 million customers. Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group (CYBG) is offering Virgin shareholders a...

Football fans heading to the World Cup this summer are going to get an education in Chinese TVs, mobile phones, electric scooters and Mongolian dairy products. As western companies, including Sony, Johnson & Johnson and BP’s Castrol, have...

Theresa May has hit back at Donald Trump’s “unjustified” decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium producers, which has pushed the EU to the brink of a trade war with the US. In her first direct...

Millions of people have been left unable to pay for goods and services in shops, petrol stations and railway stations across Britain and Europe after an unprecedented crash in Visa’s payment system. Shoppers and travellers were unable to...

The City watchdog has ordered banks to do more to help the 19 million people who regularly use their overdrafts but has dismayed campaigners seeking a cap on the £2.3bn fees made when customers go into...

At the recent EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia, the EU again failed to reassure the Western Balkan states which – instead of the hoped-for “enlargement summit” – got only a “connectivity agenda” and controversial and conflicting...

The gambling company that owns Ladbrokes Coral and Foxy Bingo faces a bruising shareholder rebellion over the “excessively disproportionate” £67m paid to two of its bosses. GVC, a FTSE 250 company with its headquarters on the Isle of...

WH Smith has been rated the UK’s worst high street retailer as shoppers panned its customer service and store standards. The books to paperclips store came bottom of a survey of Which? readers, reclaiming its unwanted crown...