More than half of private sector firms are planning price hikes to help offset looming tax increases announced in the chancellor's first budget , according to a corporate lobby group.
A television network majority-owned by David Montgomery, the media entrepreneur, is to snap up the licence to operate a London-focused TV station from Lord Lebedev, owner of the capital's weekly Standard newspaper.
The owners of Shawbrook Group, the mid-sized British lender, are drawing up plans to kickstart London's moribund listings arena with a stock market flotation, valuing it at more than £2bn.
An outsourcing group backed by Lord Hammond, the former chancellor of the exchequer, is among the suitors circling Telent, a major provider of digital infrastructure services.
The Post Office is proposing a big hike in the fees that banks pay to allow their customers to access its network as it attempts to secure additional funding to boost postmasters' pay.
A committee of MPs has called for the government to be fined if it fails to provide redress quickly enough to victims of the Horizon software scandal, as its report said the Post Office has spent at least £136m on legal fees.
As energy bills become more expensive from today, respected forecasters have said they are likely to rise further in spring instead of fall, as first anticipated.
The consortium which is in the process of buying Hargreaves Lansdown, the funds supermarket, for more than £5bn is lining up a prominent former gambling executive as its new chairman.
The operator of nearly 150 Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK is in advanced talks with potential buyers as it races to wrap up a deal to secure its future.
Manchester United Football Club is to cut the funding it provides to its charitable arm as part of a purge of costs being overseen by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, its newest billionaire shareholder.
