The British Retail Consortium (BRC) reckons retail sales in April were a wash-out, with clothing retailers particularly hard hit by the miserable weather. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that retail sales in April fell ...

The FTSE 100 surged to its highest levels of the day on Tuesday as increased risk appetite bolstered gains for financial and mining stocks. Investors were looking ahead to tomorrow's EU summit with optimism, as pressure builds on Eurozone leaders to ...

The International Monetary Fund today warned that an escalation of the eurozone crisis would cause a “substantial contractionary shock” to the UK's economic recovery. The report comes on the same day as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

By JACOB BUNGE And BRETT PHILBIN Q. I entered an order to buy Facebook shares at $44 each after the IPO open Friday, hoping to ride the day-one pop. When I tried to cancel after the opening was pushed back 30 minutes, the cancellation never went ...

David Cameron has issued his bluntest warning yet to Greece that voters need to "meet their commitments" as a member of the eurozone in elections next month or leave the currency union. Speaking at the Nato summit in Chicago, and ahead of a crucial ...