Britain's workers became less productive in the final quarter of 2014, highlighting a significant weakness that has dogged the UK economy for eight years. After a hat trick of good economic news this ...

The George Washington University School of Business has fired its dean, Doug Guthrie, after the scale of a budgetary overspend came to light. In a brief letter to faculty, the university's provost, ...

"That event gave me the confidence to realise there were other businesswomen out there." She is not alone in identifying lack of confidence as a key issue which can curb female entrepreneurship.

Charterhouse Capital Partners has highlighted private equity groups' increasing appetite for the education sector after agreeing to pay $2bn for SkillSoft, a US teaching software provider. The ...

James Healy-Pratt, head of the aviation department at the legal firm Stewarts Law in London, estimates that Allianz could eventually pay out as much as €300m.

Business groups have warned against a Scottish National party plan to raise the minimum wage at least in line with inflation, if Scotland votes for independence. Announced last year and included in ...

Saudi Arabia says suspected militants who attacked Shia worshippers earlier this month were linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, known as Isis, in the first acknowledgment of a domestic ...

Southeastern Asset Management, which worked with Carl Icahn on his tilt at Dell, has become the largest voting shareholder in News Corp after Rupert Murdoch, prompting questions about its intentions ...

Cyber security provider Tanium has become one of the largest ever investments made by Andreessen Horowitz, as part of efforts to raise more money to expand outside the US. Tanium's technology has been ...

A Singapore trader fired by Royal Bank of Scotland for allegedly manipulating the London interbank lending rate has dropped his lawsuit for wrongful dismissal. RBS said on Wednesday that no payments ...

Former employees of ICAP, Rabobank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and UBS were among 22 names that the UK Serious Fraud Office included as alleged co-conspirators on a draft indictment ...

A push by BHP Billiton, the world's biggest resource company by market value, to have coking coal prices set by an index-based pricing system has encountered further resistance. BHP has been ...