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HMRC urges parents earning under £60,000 to claim child benefit – worth up to £2,212 for two children

By HELEN CRANE Updated: 12:50 GMT, 21 March 2025 HM Revenue and Customs is reminding parents earning under £60,000 to claim child benefit, after it [...]

Surge in savers moving money from easy-access to fixed-rate accounts

By HARVEY DORSET Updated: 12:39 GMT, 21 March 2025 There has been a surge in savers shifting money to fixed-rate accounts, as they look to [...]

Inheritance tax receipts hit record high as frozen thresholds drag more people into the net

By ANGHARAD CARRICK Updated: 12:33 GMT, 21 March 2025 Inheritance tax receipts hit a new record for the fourth year in a row, with experts [...]

Wetherspoon’s profits under pressure from higher labour and utility bills

By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 09:31 GMT, 21 March 2025 JD Wetherspoon's profits fell in the first half as solid sales growth failed to offset the [...]

London Metal Exchange fined £10m over nickel price spike chaos three years ago

By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 22:01 GMT, 20 March 2025 The London Metal Exchange (LME) has been fined nearly £10million for its role in chaos that [...]

Norwegian oil fund buys £570m slice of Covent Garden as it bets on London property market

By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 22:00 GMT, 20 March 2025 Norway’s mighty oil fund has bought a quarter of Covent Garden in a fresh bet on [...]

Bank of England boss warns Britain faces ‘a lot of economic uncertainty’ as rates are left on hold

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:00 GMT, 20 March 2025 Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey has warned Britain faced 'a lot of economic uncertainty' [...]

MARKET WATCH: Asos shares soar 11% as Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen raises his stake

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 20 March 2025 Asos shares soared 10.9 per cent to 255p yesterday amid talk Danish [...]

Urgent recall for 200,000 cans of popular vegetables sold in Target

By KELLY GARINO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Updated: 13:14 GMT, 20 March 2025 Nearly 200,000 cans of green beans have been urgently recalled in several states as [...]

Smart meter installations FELL in 2024 as households hold out on new tech

By ANGHARAD CARRICK Updated: 10:58 GMT, 20 March 2025 The number of smart meter installations slumped last year despite energy suppliers ramping up efforts to [...]

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury boosted by £65m US academics deal

By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 10:56 GMT, 20 March 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing shares rose sharply on Thursday after the group lifted profit expectations for the second [...]

Pint prices to rise despite beer duty cut as brewers struggle with the Chancellor’s budget tax hikes

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 19 March 2025 At the last Budget, Rachel Reeves said a cut in beer duty [...]

US Federal Reserve boss blames ‘turmoil’ of Donald Trump’s trade war as economy slows

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 19 March 2025 Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell last night warned of ‘turmoil’ created by Donald Trump as [...]

MARKET WATCH: Defence group Babcock wins promotion to the FTSE 100 with shares up 50% this year

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 19 March 2025 Defence group Babcock International joins the FTSE 100 index next week after [...]

Tesla investor tells Musk to go amid fears his closeness to Donald Trump is harming the business

By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 22:00 GMT, 19 March 2025 An early investor in Tesla has called for Elon Musk to stand down amid fears his [...]

Sensodyne toothpaste maker Haleon now an independent company after Pfizer sells stake

By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 22:00 GMT, 19 March 2025 Sensodyne toothpaste maker Haleon hailed an ‘important milestone’ as an independent company after US pharma giant [...]

Small British satellite specialist expands SpaceX partnership

Starlink satellite constellations help people access the internet in remote areas By HARRY WISE Updated: 15:23 GMT, 19 March 2025 AIM-listed satellite communications specialist Filtronic has [...]

Mitie appoints Wickes exec as chairman exits outsourcer after eight years

Derek Mapp has overseen massive growth at Mitie since joining in 2017 By HARRY WISE Updated: 11:50 GMT, 19 March 2025 Mitie Group has named a [...]

North Sea oil firm Serica faces further production delays after Storm Éowyn chaos

Repair delays mean production from Triton unit will not resume before MayBy MIKE SHEEN Updated: 09:37 GMT, 19 March 2025 Serica Energy shares plunged on [...]

Topshop and Topman send shoppers into meltdown with bombshell announcement – five years after vanishing from High Street

By IWAN STONE Updated: 09:11 GMT, 19 March 2025 Topshop and Topman have sent shoppers into meltdown with a bombshell announcement five years after they [...]

MARKET WATCH: Indian billionaire rings up gains on talk he plans to raise BT stake

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 March 2025 BT shares rose as reports suggested an Indian billionaire is planning to [...]

Chinese ‘Tesla killer’ cars can charge in just five minutes – sending shares in Musk’s firm crashing

By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 March 2025 It has been dubbed ‘the Tesla killer’. And shares in Chinese electric car champion BYD soared [...]

‘Queen of Soho’ takes reins of late grandfather Paul Raymond’s £1.1bn west end Property firm

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 March 2025 The granddaughter of the ‘King of Soho’ Paul Raymond is to take [...]

British steel pleads for support after Trump’s 25% tariffs trigger a slump in orders

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 March 2025 Britain’s beleaguered steel firms are already facing cancelled orders after Donald Trump hit the industry [...]

You ARE entitled to compensation if your online banking is hit by an outage: SYLVIA MORRIS explains how

By SYLVIA MORRIS Updated: 22:00 GMT, 18 March 2025 Bank websites and apps seem to go down frequently at the moment, leaving their customers unable [...]

New top-ups deadline? Government website suggests a fortnight extension on its special deal

By TANYA JEFFERIES Updated: 14:31 GMT, 18 March 2025 Britons trying to top-up state pensions ahead of a crunch deadline might get an extra fortnight [...]

Investment trusts should be left out of looming City rules shake-up, say bosses

They claim FCA changes could have 'unintended consequences' By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 09:35 GMT, 18 March 2025 City bosses have urged regulators to exclude investment trusts [...]

QinetiQ shares by a fifth as the UK defence tech firm is hit by contract delays

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 17 March 2025 Qinetiq shares plunged by a fifth yesterday as contract delays by the UK and US [...]

Asda launches supermarket price war and sparks £4bn sell-off of Britain’s listed grocers

By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 22:01 GMT, 17 March 2025 More than £4billion has been wiped off the value of Britain’s listed grocers after Asda launched [...]

FCA bans Odey from City over ‘lack of integrity’ amid sexual harassment allegations

By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 22:00 GMT, 17 March 2025 Disgraced hedge fund manager Crispin Odey has been fined £1.8million and banned from the UK’s finance [...]

AstraZeneca snaps up Belgian cancer treatment business EsoBiotec in £770m deal

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 17 March 2025 AstraZeneca is buying a Belgian cancer treatment business in a multi-million pound [...]

Asos falls out of fashion: Shares crash to 17-year low after major downgrade in the City

By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00 GMT, 17 March 2025 Asos shares crashed to a 17-year low after a major downgrade in [...]

Crispin Odey faces being banned from City jobs and is slapped with £1.8m fine

By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 12:05 GMT, 17 March 2025 Crispin Odey has been handed a seven-figure fine and faces a ban from the UK financial [...]

Military and political chiefs push for £100bn European defence pot

By RUTH SUNDERLAND Updated: 21:50 GMT, 16 March 2025 Senior European politicians, military figures and financiers have signed a joint letter supporting the launch of [...]

Nationwide forced to defend £50 takeover reward

By PATRICK TOOHER Updated: 21:50 GMT, 16 March 2025 Nationwide has been forced to defend a surprise £50 bonus to its 12m members after a [...]

Fed chief Jerome Powell faces fresh clash over rate cuts

By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 21:50 GMT, 16 March 2025 Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is facing a fresh clash with Donald Trump as the [...]