The younger son of tycoon Rupert Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corporation, the media empire which his father founded. James Murdoch, 47,… Read More »Rupert Murdoch’s son quits News Corp board after ‘editorial content disagreements’

Britain’s biggest listed shopping centre-owner is preparing to ask shareholders for hundreds of millions of pounds to improve its chances of surviving the coronavirus pandemic.… Read More »Bullring owner Hammerson to raise £600m

British Airways pilots have voted to accept a deal that will include job losses and pay cuts to avoid a larger number of redundancies, their… Read More »BA pilots vote to accept jobs deal as airline faces ‘enormous challenge’

More than half of the workforce at Byron, the upmarket burger chain, will this weekend join the army of hospitality industry employees being made redundant… Read More »650 jobs go as Byron is sold in pre-pack administration

Delaying a further relaxation of lockdown restrictions in England a day before they were due to come into effect has been branded “a hammer blow”… Read More »Delay of lockdown easing ‘a hammer blow’ to business

Few companies could write down the value of their assets by $16.8bn (£12.9bn) in a single quarter and live to tell the tale. Royal Dutch… Read More »Shell reveals financial scars of COVID-19 economic slump

The proposed takeover of Newcastle United by a Saudi-backed investment fund has been called off. The group, which included Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF,… Read More »Saudi-led group calls off Newcastle United takeover

Pizza Hut has become the latest restaurant chain to put a financial restructuring on the menu by hiring advisers to explore the possibility of an… Read More »Coronavirus: Jobs at risk as Pizza Hut puts CVA on menu