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Air France staff are striking in the hope of salary increases. Unions want the airline to share its 2017 financial success, but management says more pay raises aren’t possible. Air France staff on Friday went on...

Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of putting the profits of speculators before the interests of staff at one of Britain’s oldest engineering firms, which is the object of a hostile takeover deal that has been labelled...

In the first decade of the 20th century, Standard Oil was as mighty as the tech giants of Silicon Valley are today. The company had grown from a single refinery in Cleveland in 1863 to produce...

The Chinese company behind House of Fraser will inject about £15m into the department store chain this week as part of a plan to allay concerns about the 169-year-old firm’s financial health. The retailer, which employs 6,000, has...

By Nils Pratley Anne Stevens, the chief executive of GKN, did not have to retract all her weekend statements. One that stands – and is obviously correct – is that hedge funds “could not give a crap”...

Facebook’s privacy practices are under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission following a week of scandals and public outrage over the company’s failure to protect the personal information of tens of millions of users. “The FTC takes...

More than £140m has been wiped off the value of the fashion retailer Ted Baker after it warned that challenging trading conditions had been compounded by the recent heavy snows. The shares tumbled 13% on Thursday...

Tough trading conditions for Britain’s hard-pressed retail sector eased slightly in February, according to official figures showing the first increase in sales in three months. The Office for National Statistics said retail sales volumes were up by...

One of the founders of mixer maker Fever-Tree is toasting a £82.5m payday after cashing in on the firm’s recent success by selling a stake in the group. The deputy chairman, Charles Rolls, offloaded a 2.6%...

Craig Erlam at online trading site Oanda, says investors are concerned that an impending trade war will derail the global economy:  For a person who’s been obsessed with stock market gains since his election victory 16...