A quarter of BP investors have voted against the re-election of outgoing chair Helge Lund in the biggest protest against a FTSE 100 director for five years.

The ECB delivered a quarter point cut as expected and its seventh in the past 12 months to take its benchmark interest rate down to 2.25 per cent.

US envoy Steve Witkoff is due to hold talks with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday as the Trump administration pressures Tehran to reach a deal that would severely curb its nuclear ...

Elections are not until October 2026 but are very much on investors’ radars. Lula’s approval ratings recently dropped to historic lows of 24 per cent. Voters blame his economic policies for their ...

The London show, which marks Meiselas being honoured by the Sony World Photography Awards, is the first time the Prince Street series and several others have been exhibited in the ...

It’s no secret why the air has now come out of CLO ETFs. Although no AAA-rated CLO — the tranche favoured by most ETFs — has ever defaulted since their introduction in 1997, fears over defaults make ...

Payments provider Global Payments has struck a $24.2bn cash-and-stock deal to buy rival Worldpay from GTCR less than two years after the private equity group bought a majority stake in the company. As ...

China could replace the US as the world’s dominant energy power as Donald Trump’s trade war rattles American oil producers and Beijing extends its cleantech lead, analysts have warned.

UnitedHealth shares plunged 20 per cent in pre-market trading on Thursday after the US insurance company slashed its annual profit forecast. The company said it expected net earnings per share this ...

The renewable energy source is quietly gaining popularity even as Trump pursues his ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Two disputatious tribes are currently arguing about the outlook for UK tech: call them the Fullies and the Empties, depending on whether they view a glass as half-full or half-empty.