Engineering specialist Spirax Group has announced a significant deterioration in profitability for the first half of 2025, with earnings per share falling to £0.85 compared to £1.24 in the corresponding period last year.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has declined to rule out changes to inheritance tax rules as mounting pressure on public finances intensifies speculation about potential revenue-raising measures in the upcoming autumn budget.

The United Kingdom’s gross domestic product is expected to have recorded modest expansion in the second quarter of 2025, with preliminary estimates suggesting a quarter on quarter rise of 0.2%, improving from the previous projection of flat growth

Homebuilder Persimmon reported an 11% increase in underlying profit before tax to £164.9 million for the first half of 2025

PayPoint announced a significant expansion of its financial services offering today through a new partnership with Lloyds Banking Group

The UK government has appointed insolvency specialists FTI Consulting to prepare contingency plans for Thames Water

London-based publishing and information services group Wilmington has agreed to acquire Spanish regulatory technology software business Conversia for €121.6 million in cash

Shares in British manufacturing company Spirax Group surged over 15% on Tuesday following the firm’s announcement that it expects organic...

Shares in gambling giant Entain climbed 0.6% on Tuesday after the FTSE 100 company upgraded its full-year outlook

Official statistics released by the Office for National Statistics revealed that job vacancies tumbled by 44,000 during the three-month period to July

Bank of England cuts interest rates to 4%

BP has announced it will eliminate 6,200 jobs by the end of 2026